National museum shows a collection on Tết

HÀ NỘI Việt Nam Fine Arts Museum opened an exhibition yesterday displaying 36 paintings from its modern fine arts collection on the celebration of coming Tết (Lunar New Year holiday). The exhibition entitled Xuân Hà Nội (Hà Nội Spring) will give fine arts lovers an emotional journey of viewing Tết festivities in the past and scenes of the lively Tết atmosphere. Nguyễn Tiến Chung's Đi Chợ Tết was painted on silk in 1940. His painting Đi Chợ Tết captures the scene in vivid, beautiful detail. "Many works of art on this topic become part of life for anyone living or visiting Hà Nội.