Lacquer painting is a form of painting with lacquer which was practised in East Asia for decoration on lacquerware, and found its way to Europe and the Western World both via Persia and the Middle East and by direct contact with Continental Asia. The artistic form was revived and developed as a distinct genre of fine art painting by Vietnamese artists in the 1930s; the genre is known in Vietnamese as "sơn mài."[1]
- ^ Flora Blanchon La question de l'art en Asie orientale; 2008. P. 2032: "Prior to this, lacquer painting was used by the Chinese and the Japanese, then, later, by the Vietnamese but, at that time, only for decorative purposes. After the 1930s, Vietnamese artists tried to go further and to develop the potential of this "