He started his artistic journey with Nativism, then Fauvism and gradually found his own way: Metaphoric – Expressionism. Figures in Trong’s paintings are mostly familiar objects of rural life (buffaloes, pigs, men of straw or landscapes and people he has met). For Trong, figures are just a means to express his inner feelings (they are often distorted or expanded). Van Trong owns a range of unique and catchy colors and they are connected by disordered and unconscious sketches. All of them created the attractiveness that is charming but not cheesy (sến) in his paintings.