When the economic borders of Vietnam opened in the late 1980s, an influx of Western influences flooded the country. In the art scene, painters, inundated for the first time with the works of Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet, worked to balance the infusion of Western art with their country’s identity and traditions.
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