Lacquer painting has long been known as a unique traditional art of the Vietnamese nation. Called lacquer painting means to grind to see the effect. Lacquer paintings traditionally look very different from other paintings so it is a lot of people love.
Today many lacquer paintings no longer retain the special features of traditional paintings, instead they use Japanese paint. In essence, the Japanese paint quality is much worse than our paint, it only helps lacquer fine art with high efficiency in techniques such as higher shine, less obstacles in the weather, .. but vice versa Japanese paint is a material that is not soul, hard paint and not durable with traditional paintings.
So traditional lacquer has something more special than other paintings?
Lacquer Painting is a unique painting in the world by the following special features:
1. Dry.
Other paintings, for dry painting, will use blower or sun-drying fan, but other lacquer paintings, for quick drying paint, must be incubated in airtight closets and blown with plenty of water in the cabinet to create moisture. The lacquer painting will soon dry.
2. Grinding pictures.
3. Materials.
Lacquer painting uses resin paint and natural pigments such as lipstick, gold, silver, nacre, eggshell … provide a unique sensation for the enjoyment that industrial materials can not get. .
4. Lacquer painting techniques,
The drawings have to be meticulously calculated, having to paint a lot of layers and then grinding them to create a new layer of color. This also makes the value of lacquer paintings.
5. The art of painting.
Lacquer paintings bring a very special color: deep warm and deep.
The unique characteristics of color and material on the lacquer is just luxury and ethnic simplicity, very close to the contemporary trend. Owning a lacquer painting in the home will make the house become lively, fresh and luxurious.