Throughout its leadership of the revolution, the Communist Party of Vietnam has consistently upheld the view that people are the center, the subject, and an important resource of development. The 13th National Party Congress emphasized the need to "arouse the aspiration to develop a prosperous and happy country" ^[1]. At the same time, it underscored the task of promoting Vietnamese cultural values and human strength in order to generate endogenous resources for national development, regarding these as an important driving force for sustainable development.

In this process, women have increasingly been provided with conditions to realize their potential and creative capacities. Resolution No. 11-NQ/TW of the Politburo emphasizes the need to "promote the role and enormous potential of women in the cause of industrialization, modernization, national construction and defense" ^[2]. These orientations have not only enabled women to participate more extensively in economic, political, and social life, but have also helped expand creative space in culture and the arts. The increasingly visible presence of female artists in contemporary fine arts, particularly in silk painting, may be regarded as an expression of the growing creative and cultural agency of women in the current context of renewal and international integration.