Famous writer opens his first art exhibition in Hanoi Fifty-three paintings by Nguyen Quang Thieu, President of the Vietnamese Writers Association, are on display in his first solo exhibition called Flutist at the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in Hanoi.
Flutist includes 53 paintings in oil, watercolour and pastel, showing his various imaginations of the flute.
There are also other images repeated in his works, mostly the symbolic images of villages such as ceramic pots and gourd plants.
For a long time, Thieu has been known as a famous writer, poet, as well as artist in both music and painting.
He has had paintings exhibited in many art exhibitions and drawn illustrations for his poems and for other writers. But this is his first solo exhibition.