Mural painting displays four seasons of Hanoi’s flowers

Painter Nguyen Thu Thuy, responsible for the Ceramic Road along the Red River dyke in Hanoi and artisans of Tan Hanoi Art Company have completed a mural painting “Four Seasons of Hanoi Flowers" along Pho Duc Chinh street.

Thuy and her team finish a mural on the wall along Pho Duc Chinh street. (Photos provided by Thuy)

The weather of Hanoi is pided into 4 seasons include spring, summer, autumn and winter. Hanoi with the different beauties of flower seasons will give you the amazing feeling for each time you visit the city.

The mural painting depicting enlarged flowers of Hanoi painted on the walls along Pho Duc Chinh street in Hanoi have attracted a large number of visitors and students to the place.

The group consists of six members: Thu Thuy, Tran Dinh, Nguyen Phu, Dinh Huy, Nguyen Sy, and Vu Tu who have redecorated the old wall with flowers of Hanoi such as rose, pink lotus, white lily, orange sword-lily, yellow violet, red and white dahlia, yellow chrysanthemum, and some other flowers are brought to Hanoi from Da Lat like arum lily, bird of paradise flower, artichoke flower, succulent, etc.

Painter Nguyen Thu Thuy, the prestigious Bui Xuan Phai award in 2008, and New Hanoi (Tan Hanoi) arts company have been assigned to give the wall in front of Mac Dinh Chi secondary school a makeover.

Thuy, head of the group, said she wanted to transform the plain-looking wall by painting enlarged images of popular flowers of Hanoi.

“I’m very happy to see students of Mac Dinh Chi secondary school rushing to the mural after school and discussing about the names of the flowers and plants on the mural,” she said.

She also encourages the development of public art, in order to bring art closer to the public, especially children, and expects Hanoi to have more murals similar to this to make the public and children love their city even more..

The mural painting, covering a wall which 2.2m in height and 40m in length, and depicting flowers and different shades of green leaves and the various colours of plants such as purple secretia, taro, umbrella palm, sago palm and toucan peak..

Painter Nguyen Thu Thuy, the prestigious Bui Xuan Phai award in 2008, and New Hanoi (Tan Hanoi) arts company have been assigned to give the wall in front of Mac Dinh Chi secondary school a makeover.

Thuy, head of the group, said she wanted to transform the plain-looking wall by painting enlarged images of popular flowers of Hanoi, adding that she wants to encourage the development of public art, in order to bring art closer to the public.

Not only the locals and students are enjoying themselves, but the people who often travel or do business on this street are happy to see this as an ideal retreat.

Thuy and her team sit in front of the completed mural painting.

In 2017, Thuy and artisans of Tan Hanoi Art Company had completed a decorative mural painting, covering a pillar which is 7.4m in height and 6.4m in diameter with bright images of plants and flowers, part of an art project to turn Da Nang Airport into a tropical garden.

The "Hanoi Ceramic road" along the Red River dyke is the opening for the idea of ​​street decoration with paintings in Hanoi. Community painting projects in the city up to now have not only reached Guinness records, but also weaved through in small streets, alleys of residential areas, such as alley 78 on Duy Tan Street, alley 136 on Ho Tung Mau Street, residential quarter near Lang Buddhist Temple, Yen Phu residential quarter, etc./.

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