Bùi Xuân Phái: Cuộc Đời và Tác Phẩm ( Bui Xuan Phai: Life and Work)

Without monumental works and an intention to create his own style, Bui Xuan Phai still remains the most impressive painter as far as the Vietnamese's feelings are concerned, the feelings for our beloved homeland. old friends and daily life that we often do not sufficiently pay heed to. For Bui Xuan Phai painting means breathing and living that need doing daily and continuously, and later he is willing to give away or sell cheap his works. so that he keeps on painting as a means of popularising art. It is difficult to count exactly the number of his pictures as well as to define his patience and implication underlying each picture of his

Being a collector who has just begun collecting professionally, Tran Hau Tuan has had 3 books on Bui Xuan Phai published (Bui Xuan Phai-1992. Cheo Paintings-Bui Xuan Phai-1995; Bui Xuan Phai-Ancient Streets-Abstracts-Self-Portraits-1996) with commentar- ies by Thai Ba Văn, Nguyen Quan, Dương Tuong This uithe Tran Hau Tuan and Bui Thanh Phuong (Bui Xuan Phat son ) have written this book to sum up the painter'a career and named it as "Bui Xuan Phai-Life and Works" to commenmorate the painter's 10 Death. Anniversary (1988-1998).

Author: Trần Hậu Tuấn

Publisher: NXB Mỹ Thuật

Released Date: 1998