Which address in Hanoi sells beautiful and cheap lacquer paintings?

Can you tell me where to buy beautiful and cheap lacquer paintings in Hanoi? If anyone knows, please help me! Thanks!

Answer:
LEHAIS ART hello! Your question is very interesting, this question is also interested and wondered by many people. However, to answer and find such a prestigious address, you need to understand and master a bit of knowledge about lacquer paintings (What is Lacquer?, What is Lacquer Painting?, Lacquer painting materials? What are the common materials used for lacquer painting?,..).

Here we would like to introduce about lacquer painting for you to better understand:
1. What is Lacquer?
Lacquer is one of the most widely used painting materials in the world. In Vietnam, lacquer is the result of research and development of the traditional craft of painting. Until the early 1930s, Vietnamese painters at the Indochina School of Fine Arts discovered colored materials from: snail shells, eggs, bamboo... then applied the inherent lacquer technique to create paintings. true lacquer painting. The concept of lacquer has also gradually become popular in Vietnam since then.
2. What is lacquer painting?
According to the history in Vietnam, the first traces of lacquer were found hundreds of years ago. Our people used the latex of the gardenia tree to plaster boats, and then through the Le, Ly, and Tran dynasties, respectively, many antiques were still preserved, many wooden or earthen statues were painted with gilded vermilion.
From the time when Vietnamese painters put new color materials into use, the art of Vietnamese lacquer painting officially flourished. It can be defined that lacquer painting is a type of painting that uses traditional materials in lacquer techniques such as: then paint, cockroach wing paint as a binder, and all kinds of lipstick, silver, gold, and mussel shells. to draw on a black background.
To create a complete lacquer painting, traditional lacquer painters usually take a lot of time, averaging about 6 months. Indeed, for those who do not have love and passion for this art, it will be very easy to give up. The use value of paintings also lasts a long time over time if the players know how to preserve and cherish.
3. Common materials used for lacquer painting
A complete work of lacquer painting will need a lot of different materials including: paint, color... The main material to make lacquer is latex extracted from the bark of the gardenia tree. The latex of gardenia has high stickiness and is very durable, resistant to rain, salt water, and high humidity. Up to the present time, the commonly used materials for painting include:
- Paint: Exploited from the gardenia tree, in addition, Trau oil, filling oil, turpentine and resin are also used.
- Color: Traditional lacquer uses 2 basic colors, black and red cockroach wings, color made from inorganic minerals (eg lipstick) so it does not decompose before light and time.
- Silver products such as sterling silver, glued silver, milled silver, beam silver.
- Gold-based products such as gilded gold.
- Other materials: eggshell, mussel shell, snail shell, scallop powder.
With the strong development of lacquer painting today, the requirements for techniques and materials used to make paintings are also constantly evolving and changing. Currently, the trend of using raw materials is Japanese paint, which is quite popular, because, paint has the limitation that it is easy to cause side effects for users and in addition, when using Japanese paint, the painting depends on the time. quite a lot. However, the paint material is still very popular because when looking at the picture it creates more depth for the picture.

Where to sell beautiful and cheap lacquer paintings in Hanoi
LEHAIS ART. We are proud to be a prestigious address that many customers, as well as architects, come to buy and collect lacquer paintings. Our gallery has a wide variety of lacquer paintings, in various sizes by different artists. Besides, there are many lines of paintings of other materials such as: oil paintings, silk paintings, watercolor paintings, wood carvings, ... You can visit and admire.

We are always open to welcome you to visit.
All information about them you can see here:
- Phone number: 0934020989
- Email: arts.lehais@gmail.com
- Website: art.lehais.com


Sincerely thank!