Environmental messages through painting colors

Not only protecting the environment through propaganda paintings, professional paintings also deeply express the green spirit.

Works by artist To Bao An

Typically, at the exhibition "Thư Tiêu Dao" (currently taking place at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association), artist To Bao An brought viewers messages about the environment through works that exude a surreal style, creating a strong visual impression. "Paintings about the environment and animals are very common, but in artist Bao An's works, the images of tigers, rabbits or storks are covered by a more distant artistic concept. Each work makes people stop to contemplate and realize the message of cherishing life and the green color of the environment around them," said Ms. Truong Nguyen Hoai Thuong (35 years old, advertising designer, living in Go Vap district, Ho Chi Minh City).

Painter To Bao An graduated from Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts in 2014 and graduated from the Faculty of Painting, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Belgium in 2017. His creative journey is persistent in finding messages from the environment and the natural world through images of animals. By creating symbolic animal shapes, the world of painting is an effective means for Bao An to express inner depth, as well as thoughts about life, the environment and today's issues. Although animals are only expressed through eyes, gestures, and behaviors..., they express non-verbal metaphorical conversations between humans and nature.

Painter Bao An expressed: “Painting gives the person holding the brush many opportunities to express themselves about life and the natural environment around them. For me, painting gives me the opportunity to listen and find out what I am looking for and express it in my work. In a vague way, I encounter in animals an interesting way of dialogue, capable of expressing more meaningful things than what can be expressed in my everyday language.”

From a professional perspective, painter Nguyen Trung Tin, Vice President of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association, shared: “Exploiting a popular topic today but with a very unique quality is also a very good experience for young painters. Like the paintings of To Bao An, as well as many other painters, when they have concerns about life but have their own unique and interesting perspective, always allowing viewers to contemplate current issues.”

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Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/thong-diep-moi-truong-qua-sac-mau-hoi-hoa-post746473.html