COLLECTION NAME:
Visiting Artist Lectures/Interviews
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Work Title (display):
Visiting Artist Lecture, Long Nguyen
Image Title:
video
Work Dates (display):
October 17, 1995
Work Dates type:
lecture
Work Creator (display):
Long Nguyen (American, born Vietnam 1958)
Work Creator gender:
male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Long Nguyen has created paintings that are done in a thick and ocherous impasto. Nguyen was born in Vietnam and left his homeland after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Since he witnessed a war, Nguyen has always wanted to bring intensity to his work in order to fully express his grim experience. The evocative images of his early paintings emerging from his memory and subconscious are all about his experience during the Vietnamese War. Nguyen's subjects are strange animals, people, decaying plants, stairs, water, truncated heads body parts, spirals and striated markings which, according to the artist, implies signs of personal journey. During the 1980s, he studied Eastern philosophies and developed from those experiences meditative paintings that included calligraphic markings. The recurring head and its solemn expression of these paintings "symbolize the resignation of the spirit to these offenses, urging self-sacrifice, relinquishing struggle. In these works which evoke both anguish and a channeled effort to surmount the corporeal, Long Nguyen clearly states that the mind can transcend suffering" (Cited from Long Nguyen written by Casey Fitz Simons). Casey Fitz Simons wrote of these works as, "Consigned to a minor role in the flux of nature, with faith only in the immutability of the power equation, the human being is tortured and impotent. Resignation as a form of self-assertion and surrender as he "sine qua non" of understanding are pungently Eastern." http://artasiameric…
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
1995 visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Worktype:
lectures
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lectures
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Work Category (VRC classification):
video
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Work Measurements (display):
00:31:33
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
University of Colorado, Department of Art and Art History
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
lecture
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Boulder, Colorado
Image Rights (display):
© University of Colorado, Department of Art and Art History
Work Rights (display):
© Long Nguyen
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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