Painting description
- Material: Oil painting
- Size: 200 cm x 200 cm
- Creation year: 2023
This is a picture that synthesizes most of the sacred beast images in Vietnamese culture from the Ly Dynasty to today. In which the four sacred creatures reside at the four poles: the North pole with the mountains in Ha Giang like a Unicorn sitting, the West pole with the Pha Din pass and the terraced fields in A Pa Chai like Dragon coil, the South pole Turtle reigns, and the East pole has Pheonix to welcome the rising sun. They all converge on the 17th parallel, the place that once divided the country and was also healed to form the shape of the letter S today.
Four sacred animals, using images of four dynasties with typical achievements in the history of Vietnamese culture and art. These are the Dragon of the Ly Dynasty - shaping culture and art, the Unicorn of the Tran Dynasty - an anecdote about three times protecting the territory, the Turtle of the Le Dynasty with the story of returning the sword of King Le Loi, and the Pheonix of the Nguyen Dynasty - the quintessential mark in Phap Lam art and is popular in decoration today.
Other spirit beasts appear in shadowy silhouettes, expressing the spirit of "earthly spirits", combined with the silhouettes of the poles to form "human masterpieces", the country of the South, although strong and weak at different times, but heros in everylife is always having.