Nguyen Gia Tri – the painter graduated from the Indochina College of Fine Arts (1936). He was a master painter and one of the pioneers in transforming Vietnamese lacquer paintings from fine art paintings into works of visual arts.

The lacquer painting "Central, South and North Spring Garden" was created during the war, meaningful of works was a prayer for unity and happiness for the homeland. The work is a unique artifact, a handwritten by the famous painter Nguyen Gia Tri. “Central, South and North Spring Garden” is a synthesis of all achievements in a half of century of creative research on lacquer art. At this work, the author skillfully handled the lacquer material, so the theme is composed with images of flowers, young girls, architectural miniatures and music... expressed as "a poem about the inner self in which the material is deliberately ignored". With modern and academic shaping techniques on traditional lacquer material, Nguyen Gia Tri has harmoniously combined Eastern and Western cultures, contributing to bring this art to its peak and affirming the position of lacquer in fine arts Vietnam. This work that took the longest time to create, also was the largest in size, applies the most art conclusions and was the last work of the artist's life.