Painter Hoang Hoa Mai has created many paintings on President Ho. Her recently created painting named “Uncle Ho Writes Declaration of Independence in 1945 is one of her successful works.

Hoa Mai has created many works on President Ho with many of them having left a fine impression on audiences such as “Bac Ho with a Red Pencil” and “Uncle Ho on Truong Le Mountain”. One of her notable works is also the portrait of Nguyen Ai Quoc. The portrait features President Ho when he was reading Lenin Thesis in Paris. The work was displayed at the National Fine Arts Exhibition in 2005 in Hanoi and now is being kept at the Ho Chi Minh Museum.

Her most recent painting “Uncle Ho Writes Declaration of Independence” has been completed after three years. To make the painting, Hoa Mai has visited the house at 48 Hang Ngang, Hanoi where Uncle Ho wrote the Declaration of Independence to collect material. She has talked to the house’s owners to get to know more about the days when Uncle Ho was living there.

The painting features the real space of the room where Uncle Ho worked with a round wooden table, chair with white mattress, a pink lamp and a white door curtain.     

With warm colours, the painting arouses the space and time when the Declaration of Independence was worked out. The picture is permeated with the spirit of the glorious autumn of the August Revolution that year.

By Minh Anh