Art Exhibition: Iwasaki Chihiro & Vietnam

Art exhibition: Iwasaki Chihiro & Vietnam will take place on October 27, 2013, at the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, 27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi.

The exhibition introduces 40 works, of which 32 are being introduced for the first time in Vietnam, with three main themes that the female artist is very fond of: children, flowers and picture books.

Iwasaki Chihiro (1918 - 1974) was one of the most beloved Japanese female artists and illustrators in the world. She was famous for her unique combination of oriental ink painting and western watercolor painting.

Painting "Sunflowers and Baby" by Iwasaki Chihiro

Chihiro is known to be able to differentiate between a 10-month-old and a 1-year-old through her drawings. She can also depict any features of a child without a model.

Children in Chihiro's paintings appear very lively, full of emotions and have many inner expressions. Throughout her career, Chihiro drew about 40 picture books about Japanese fairy tales and Andersen's fairy tales, the daily life of children, babies and especially, she won an award for the book "Children in the Flames of War".

One of Chihiro's important jobs was not only to draw sketches but also to write the content for those sketches. As a person who had experienced war, Chihiro always wished for happiness and peace for children all her life. The exhibition hopes to bring to viewers feelings about children as well as thoughts about our future through the world of peace, wealth, beauty and loveliness of the late talented artist Chihiro.

According toCommunist Party of Vietnam - Korea