As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War

TRINH KIM VINH

Trinh Kim Vinh lives her life as an artist with enthusiasm and determination. These attitudes are necessary to maintain a career in art in any country but especially in Vietnam during the war and while raising three children. Kim Vinh credits her late husband, the former Minister of Culture and Information, with long being supportive and for insisting that she go to the site of her subject, regardless of the distance. Today Kim Vinh teaches painting at the School of Fine Arts of Ho Chi MInh City and continues to create lithographs.

"Many Vietnamese artists want to form an organization that bids farewell to weapons. Just this morning many art teachers met to plan an exhibition using pieces of weaponry to create pictures symbolic of peace"
From an interview with Lois Tarlow
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OPERATION THROUGH THE JUNGLES, lithograph on rag paper, 13 x 17 inches, 1973
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FEMALE SOLDIER STANDS GUARD NEAR THE SEA, lithograph on rag paper, 13 x 12 inches, 1972
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