MUST WATCH: Bui Xuan Phai
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Date: 2019-09-01

Bui Xuan Phai (September 1, 1920 – June 24, 1988) 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 Nhan Van 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 H? Chi Minh prize.
Bui Xuan Phai unfortunately died in 1988, in Hanoi, the place of his birth.
Family
Spouse&nbsp;: Nguy?n Th? Sinh
Issues&nbsp;: Bui Thanh Phuong (second son)
Gallery
Among others he is exhibited by Hanoi art gallerist Hu?nh Th?ng Nh?t.
Hanoi 1946
Ph? Hang Be - Hang Be Street, gouache on paper
In popular culture
Hanoi Streets by Bui-xuan-Phai
Bui Xuan Phai - For the Love of Hanoi Awards
See also
Bui Thanh Phuong