Art schools and the influence of French artists in Vietnam

Lecture by Loan de Fontbrune, Art Historian, Member of the Overseas Academy of Sciences.

Art schools in Indochina, more specifically in Việt Nam, and their influence on Vietnamese art, through the French artists who directed them, from the XNUMXs to the XNUMXs.

At the beginning of the 20th century, relying on the old local industries of wood, bronze and ceramics, the French government created schools of art (Thu Dau Mot in 1901, Bien Hoa in 1903, Gia Dinh in 1913 and the Superior School of Fine Arts of Indochina in 1924), directed by French people trained in Western art. They thus contribute to the development of the country's arts and crafts which have traditionally only been transmitted within the family.