“Nguyen Thanh Son (1969) is a splendid Vietnamese graphic painter. He loves traditional Eastern water-color techniques, but he prefers to focus on lines and forms rather than employ free brushstrokes, which it often seems are the essence of this medium. Carefully and skillfully cut lines of forms can be seen clearly in his artworks. The painter, with a way of painting as of delicate suggestion, has brought the general to the form. By expressing traditional values (with familiar folk images), Nguyen Thanh Son, actually, seems to direct his care toward the destiny of humans hidden behind the images on the surface of the paintings.”

Art critic Phan Cam Thuong

“There should be discrimination between the value of a particular style and true artistic contributions, the so-called “new” and efforts to make something entirely different.

Lacquer paintings by Nguyen Thanh Son express the strong graphicality of an affirmative graphic painter. Nguyen Thanh Son’s artwork has the incidental beauty of lacquer material through the artist’s individual style. Deep inside the convergence of lines and swirls of lacquer – the sudden inspiration in the pieces of vermilion, silver, and egg shell… can be discovered. It is the plastic which helps the artist suggest the things hidden behind the faces, activities rather than the surface of the paintings themselves.”

Art critic Le Quoc Bao