Designer of the Dien Bien Phu Victory Monument
Designer of the Dien Bien Phu Victory Monument
"Dien Bien Phu Victory" Monument, the biggest bronze sculpture in Vietnam, was recently installed on D1 Hill in Dien Bien Phu City, on the 50th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, as a symbol of the Vietnamese nation's great victory. Sculptor Nguyen Hai is the designer of this work.
Born in 1933 in Tien Giang Province, Southern Vietnam, at 14 Nguyen Hai joined the resistance war against the French colonialists. In 1949, he was moved to Battalion 307 to both fight and paint for its bulletin. In 1954, he went to the North and took a secondary course in fine arts. Later he attended and graduated from the Vietnam Fine Arts University, at the sculpture faculty (1958-1963).
Hai made the "Dien Bien Phu Victory" sculpture in his final year at the university, which was then bought by, and displayed at, the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum. Since 1975, Hai has lived in Ho Chi Minh City.
Nguyen Hai is truly an artist. In his works, there are some features of the soldiers of Battalion 307, the liberality of the southerners in his native place, and his artistic mind full of creativeness.
Hai has made sculptures for a long time, even during the war. So far, he has made many big bronze and stone sculptures, including the "Mother Homeland", more than 10 m high, a bas-relief of the 300-year-old Ho Chi Minh City, the "Thu Khoa Huan" in My Tho (Tien Giang Province), the "Workers fighting" installed at Junction Seven crossroad in Ho Chi Minh City. He also made two statues, "Giong Saint" in 1972 - a legendary boy - that marks a renovation in the sculptural language, and "Nguyen Van Troi" - a hero in contemporary time - which fully expressed his viewpoint on creation. These two works were greatly appreciated. Painter Tran Khanh Chuong, General Secretary of the Vietnam Sculptors' Association, wrote: "Nguyen Hai has more than 40 years in sculpturing and a large number of sculptural works of high artistic quality that marks a renovation in terms of sculptural language. He is the only person graduating from the Hanoi Fine Arts University after 1954, who has been conferred the Ho Chi Minh Award for Literature and Arts by the State.”
"Dien Bien Phu Victory" Monument, the biggest bronze sculpture in Vietnam, was recently installed on D1 Hill in Dien Bien Phu City, on the 50th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, as a symbol of the Vietnamese nation's great victory. Sculptor Nguyen Hai is the designer of this work.
Born in 1933 in Tien Giang Province, Southern Vietnam, at 14 Nguyen Hai joined the resistance war against the French colonialists. In 1949, he was moved to Battalion 307 to both fight and paint for its bulletin. In 1954, he went to the North and took a secondary course in fine arts. Later he attended and graduated from the Vietnam Fine Arts University, at the sculpture faculty (1958-1963).
Nguyen Hai is truly an artist. In his works, there are some features of the soldiers of Battalion 307, the liberality of the southerners in his native place, and his artistic mind full of creativeness.
Hai has made sculptures for a long time, even during the war. So far, he has made many big bronze and stone sculptures, including the "Mother Homeland", more than 10 m high, a bas-relief of the 300-year-old Ho Chi Minh City, the "Thu Khoa Huan" in My Tho (Tien Giang Province), the "Workers fighting" installed at Junction Seven crossroad in Ho Chi Minh City. He also made two statues, "Giong Saint" in 1972 - a legendary boy - that marks a renovation in the sculptural language, and "Nguyen Van Troi" - a hero in contemporary time - which fully expressed his viewpoint on creation. These two works were greatly appreciated. Painter Tran Khanh Chuong, General Secretary of the Vietnam Sculptors' Association, wrote: "Nguyen Hai has more than 40 years in sculpturing and a large number of sculptural works of high artistic quality that marks a renovation in terms of sculptural language. He is the only person graduating from the Hanoi Fine Arts University after 1954, who has been conferred the Ho Chi Minh Award for Literature and Arts by the State.”
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