Despite his age of 67, painter Truong Han Minh from Ho Chi Minh city, a member of the Standing Board of the Literature and Arts Association of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities, has been awarded with the third-class Labour Order for his contributions to ethnic minority communities.
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| Painter Truong Han Minh, beside his paintings, is known for humanitarian activities (Photo: SGGP) |
Being a painting teacher, after his retirement, he has many times painted water-colour paintings and auctioned them to support the poor, and donated over VND7 billion to the study encouragement fund. His paintings are so beautiful that they are sold at hundreds of millions of VND each. Recently, over 100 paintings were exhibited at the Ho Chi Minh city Fine Arts Museum and auctioned at the starting point of USD300-USD6,000 each. After the auction, 50% of collected money was donated to the city Fund for the poor.
Painter Minh said that as he lived in prosperous and happy life, he wanted to use his ability to help the poor.
According to the Ho Chi Minh city Ethnic Minorities Committee, painter Minh has made great contributions to the country’s literature and arts development, as well as movements’ activities.
By realizing the campaign to study and follow President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and style, he pioneered in illustrating Uncle Ho’s poems in his paintings, in order to disseminate the campaign among ethnic minority people./.
Compiled by BTA