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| Nguyen Quoc Dung, born in 1959 in Hanoi, is an established Vietnamese painter, photographer, and graphic artist. Nguyen studied at the College of Graphic Arts in Hanoi. After graduation, he spent several years designing postage stamps for the Vietnamese Postmaster. He became interested in fine art painting but retained certain techniques that he had acquired as a graphic artist. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Vietnam, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. His favorite subjects are northern women dressed in traditional clothing of rural Vietnam. |
 | Sisters I: This picture captures the artist's nostalgia for the age of innocence. The two girls are fully engaged into a child's game, bong chuyen, a game children used to play in the past, when high-technology games did not exist. As in most of Nguyen's works, his subjects are dressed in traditional clothes that are no longer worn by modern Vietnamese women, except on special occasions. The artist usually stays way from city life, and his preferred background is the country side of North Vietnam. |
| Sisters II: A moment of intimacy between the young sisters. Nguyen romanticizes and idealizes the adolescence of country girls. The artist suggests that the innocent sisters have secret longings that they cannot share to anyone but between themselves. They look down and not directly and one another as if they are giving confessions. The warm tone of the painting renders the scene more intimate. Paradoxically, this intimacy makes innocence fragile, and this fragility is what the artist strives to capture. Here he succeeds. |  |
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