Ta Thanh Tâm was born in 1960 in Hanoi.
She is graduated from the Hanoi Fine Arts College in 1993.
Member of Hanoi Fine Arts Association.
Exhibition of her paintings in many countries, i.e. Vietnam, Denmark, Switzerland and USA.
With
her paintings in lacquer, Tâm dwells on people’s life, inspired by
people and traditions of the Red River Delta. Her inspirations roots
from oriental philosophy, Buddhism. Pagodas, days Tâm, are a symbol of
tranquility and provide an avenue of escape for most people from their
mundane lifestyles. Adopting a fairly simplistic painting style, Tâm
often reinforces a painting’s fundamental theme by placing the
protagonist on a plain background.
Tâm seeks to convey the genuine
emotion of people living in local villages through her art, thereby
showing them in their natural light. Emotion-positive or negative-stands
out in all of Tam’s paintings, a deliberate tactic she will to go great
lengths to point out. She says she wishes to amaze audiences with an
innovative use of color and a complexity of images. She uses modern
techniques, but simple and basic, rooted in established engravings and
wood carvings. Her colors are high and flat on plum backgrounds. Her
deep black contour lines draw shapes and figures with a great presence.
Everything comes down to the brush stroke and its dynamic balance,
following eastern painting tradition. Tâm succeeds through her modern
techniques in showing us the heart of this very Vietnamese kind of
beauty. She says that her art had, in part, helped her overcome her
difficulties with polio in her early childhood.
