Vietnam artist in race to ensure ‘heroic mothers’ not forgotten

Hoạ sĩ Đặng Ái Việt Hành trình khắc hoạ hơn 3000 chân dung Mẹ Việt Nam Anh Hùng

Reuters.com By Minh Nguyen March 29, 2023 4:39 PM GMT+7

CAO LANH CITY, Vietnam, March 29 (Reuters) – On her trusty motorcycle, Vietnamese artist Dang Ai Viet travels around the Southeast Asian country in a quest to ensure that the thousands of women who suffered the loss of two or more loved ones during the Vietnam War are not forgotten.

The 75-year-old has painted the portraits of 2,765 of the women, who are part of a group known in Vietnam as “heroic mothers”, in recognition of their sacrifice during the war that ended in 1975.

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