An art exhibition titled Colour of the New Year – Year of the Earth Dog, is due to open in the central city’s Fine Arts Museum on January 18. 

Spring comes, an acrylic by Huynh Thi Thang.

A total of 40 paintings by 32 artists will be on show for a week.

The exhibition features oil paintings, acrylic and lacquer work all about the New Year animal, the Dog and the flowers and beauty of Spring.

It is the first exhibition of the New Year and be a curtain raiser for Lunar New Year which falls on February 16.

The museum regularly displays more than 400 works including contemporary fine arts, sculpture and paintings. - VNA