Bùi Xuân Phái


Bùi Xuân Phái was a Vietnamese painter. He is famous for the paintings of Hanoi Old Quarter. He also painted the actors and musicians of Vietnamese opera.

Biography

The best known of all Vietnamese modern painters, Phai is respected and admired for both his art and moral character. He epitomizes for the Vietnamese the lone artist suffering for his art: he lost his teaching position at the Hanoi College of Fine Arts in 1957 for supporting Nhân Văn affair a movement for political and cultural freedom and was not allowed to show his work in public until a solo exhibition in 1984. However, in 1996, he was posthumously awarded with a Hồ Chí Minh prize.
Bui Xuan Phai unfortunately died in 1988, in Hanoi, the place of his birth.

Family

On 1 September 2019, Phái was honored by a Google Doodle in Vietnam, on his 99th birthday.

Gallery

Among others he is exhibited by Hanoi art gallerist Huỳnh Thống Nhất.

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