The period of development with several different characteristics: 1945–84
Until the middle of the 20th century, the struggle for national
liberation bore an important significance in the progress and
evolution of the fine arts. National independence has changed the
citizens’ outlook on the issue of public duty and has had an
enormous impact on artists’ creative approaches.
Independence was followed by a period of upheaval in the
history of Vietnam, with prolonged and fierce warfare, changes in
the foundations of thought and political forms, international
contact and multidirectional influence, and differences in artistic
thinking. These created an artistic period bearing several different
characteristics.
The fusion of the fine arts and life in the resistance war has
made the fine arts part and parcel of the new reality. Resistance war
art during the period 1945–54 was, in every respect, the expression
of social propaganda. Painting and drawing developed strongly,
various kinds of materials, such as lithograph, wood-engraving and