Tran Vinh Luu (1937 – Today) became the master of Vietnamese sketch painting. He believed this new medium could express the Vietnamese soul and would define the future of vietnamese painting. He started to employ the themes of daily life and landscape in his paintings. Reality was his primary source of inspiration. Tran Vinh Luu paid attention to shapes, but he was even more concerned with colours. He introduced to vietnamese sketch powerful, bold combinations of colours that differed from the sof blends his contemporaies favoured. Layers of drawing ink, colours paint intertwine and merge to create the mixed impression fo ambiguity and concreteness, softness, powerfulness.

With Tran Vinh Luu, Vietnamese sketch painting could be said to have joined the mainstream of the world’s modern art.