Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts

Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts (Vietnamese: Đại học Mỹ thuật Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh) is a university in Bình Thạnh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The predecessor of this school was the École des Dessins, founded by André Joyeux in 1913, which became the École des Arts appliqués de Gia Đinh from 1940 to 1971 (Trung học Trang trí Mỹ thuật Gia Định).[1]

Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts
Đại học Mỹ thuật Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (Vietnamese)
Former names
    • École des Dessins
    • École des Arts appliqués de Gia Đinh
    • Saigon College of Fine Arts
Established1976
Address
5, Phan Dang Luu Street, Ward 3, Binh Thanh District
,
Ho Chi Minh City
,
Vietnam

10°48′10″N 106°41′39″E / 10.8029°N 106.6943°E / 10.8029; 106.6943
Websitehcmufa.edu.vn

Under the administration of the Republic of Vietnam, from 1971, the school was upgraded to become Saigon College of Fine Arts.[citation needed] The Fine Arts College was founded in 1976.[citation needed] In 1981, the Vietnamese prime minister decided to found the university as it is today.[citation needed]

Alumni

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References

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  1. ^ Nora A. Taylor Painters in Hanoi: an ethnography of Vietnamese art – Page 81 2009 "These texts ignore the fact that an art school was established in 1913 some ten kilometers outside of Saigon proper, in a ... Minh City known as Gia Dinh.4 The school, an ecole de dessin (drawing school), was first directed by Andre Joyeux."
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