A black and white copy of Nguyen Dinh Dung's Old Hanoi in a booklet introducing the artist.

Nguyen Dinh Dung (b.1943) studied painting with artist Ngo Manh Quynh, who was also the teacher to Vu Dan Tan. He worked as an illustrator and a cartoonist at the Animation Film Studio of Vietnam television. In the early 1980s, Nguyen Dinh Dung, with a modernist approach, began to create his much acclaimed silk painting. His works on silk, and later oil paintings as well as gouaches on paper, are characterized by strong contrasting colour fields and dynamism of forms. Though in the early 1980s such works were considered too modernist to be exhibited in any official art spaces; the artist there had his first solo exhibition organised at his friend Dang Duong Bang’s private villa as an underground show. Salon Natasha in the early 1990s provides another space to display his works.

Salon Natasha as an alternative art space had been a well-known exhibition space for artists of different generations in Hanoi. During the early years of its establishment (1990-1993), artists who exhibited at the Salon were mostly close friends with Vu Dan Tan.
Back in the early 1990s, artists that actively engaged in the Salon include Bui Thanh Phuong, Do Phan and his father Mo Thanh (a pseudonym), Nguyen Dinh Dung, Tran Thieu Quang, Bui Viet Dung, Ngo Dinh Chuong, Ngo Manh Quynh, Mai Chi Thanh, and Eric Leroux.