page_title: Culture of Vietnam
section_title: Silk painting
hierarchical_section_title: Culture of Vietnam / Visual arts / Silk painting
caption_attribution_description: Tiếng Việt: Tranh chân dung Tả thái tử Kiến Trung hầu Thông chương đại phu Trịnh Đình Kiên (1715 - 1786), vẽ trên lụa. Hiện trưng bày tại Bảo tàng Mỹ thuật Việt Nam (Hà Nội). English: Exhibit in the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts - Hanoi, Vietnam. This artwork is old enough so that it is in the public domain.
context_page_description: The culture of Vietnam is one of the oldest in Southeast Asia, with the ancient Bronze age Đông Sơn culture being widely considered one of its most important progenitors. Although geographically Southeast Asian, but due to 1000 years of Chinese rule, Vietnamese culture was heavily influenced by Chinese culture in terms of politics, government, social and moral ethics, and art, thus Vietnam is considered to be part of the East Asian cultural sphere together with China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
  Following independence from China in the 10th century, Vietnam began a southward expansion that saw the annexation of territories formerly belonging to Champa Civilization, Degar and parts of the Khmer Empire, which resulted in regional variances in Vietnam's culture today and abroad.
  During the French colonial period, Vietnamese culture absorbed various influences from the Europeans, including the spread of Catholicism and the adoption of the Latin alphabet. Prior to this, Vietnamese had used both Chinese characters and a script called Chữ Nôm which was based on Chinese, but included newly invented characters to represent some native Vietnamese words.
context_section_description: Vietnamese silk painting is one of the most popular forms of art in Vietnam, favored for the mystical atmosphere that can be achieved with the medium.  During the 19th and 20th centuries, French influence was absorbed into Vietnamese art and the liberal and modern use of color especially began to differentiate Vietnamese silk paintings from their Chinese, Japanese and Korean counterparts. Vietnamese silk paintings typically showcase the countryside, landscapes, pagodas, historical events or scenes of daily life.
caption: Silk painting of Trịnh Đình Kiên (1715-1786) in the 18th century, exhibited in Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts
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