La Ba Quan — Vietnamese Painter

La Ba Quan is a contemporary Vietnamese artist known for his impasto paintings of men on the streets of Hanoi. Made in the tradition of German New Objectivity painters such as Max Beckmann and Otto Dix, Quan’s works convey the pathos he sees in his subjects. He works with oil, lacquer, also acrylics, and in oil paintings, and he used oil on canvas with a palette knife.