The Story of the Founding Ceremony Oil Painting:
Almost from the birth of the painting, in the course of more than twenty years, the figures on the canvas have been deleted and added several times, and the oil painting itself has been reproduced and modified again. These modifications reflect the decades of political turmoil in **** and the country. The Ceremony of the Founding of the Republic not only frames that day in October 1949, but also records a part of Chinese history that cannot be avoided.
In July 2011, after the renovation and expansion of the National Museum of China's central hall, appeared two "Founding Ceremony" oil paintings, one of which is the first time after the "Cultural Revolution" in front of the public. Careful people will find that the characters on the two paintings are different, and the hidden stories behind the famous paintings are once again memorable.
In early 1951, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese ****anufacturing party, the Chinese Revolutionary Museum began to prepare for the 30th anniversary of the founding of the party painting exhibition. After several months of collection, painters came up with nearly 100 paintings for the exhibition, but the result was not satisfactory. The head of the museum at the time said, "As a national museum collection of paintings about the history of the Party, it is obviously inappropriate not to have a masterpiece showing the founding of the Chinese People's **** and State."
In 1952, Ge Bo decided to commission the Central Academy of Fine Arts to organize and complete a batch of oil paintings showing the new China, of which the task of creating the huge oil painting "Founding Ceremony" was given to Dong Xiwen, a 37-year-old young painter and well-known professor.
Dong Xiwen, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and a graduate of a professional art school, had been copying murals at Dunhuang for three years.
When Beiping was liberated at the beginning of 1949, Dong Xiwen created a gouache painting called "Beiping Entry Ceremony," and witnessed the grand opening ceremony of the People's Republic of China. He was also appointed to paint portraits of Mao Zedong and Zhu De at the First Literature Congress of New China. Dong Xiwen was the right person to paint the group portraits of the leaders at the Founding Ceremony.
At that time, Dong was leading his students to live and work at the Shijingshan power plant on the outskirts of Beijing. He was summoned back to Beijing and immediately went to work, yet he realized that the leaders and the masses did not appear together in all the photographs and video footage. In his imagination, the Founding Ceremony should be a scene in which the leaders of the founding of new China and the masses in the square are together in one picture, so he decided to make a bold attempt.
Dong Xifen drew a sketch on a postcard-sized piece of paper, the left side of the picture is a large number of national leaders, the right side of the square covered with flowers, so the layout of the left real and right virtual layout according to the general law of composition is out of balance, but increased the leaders and the square crowd a near and far, a little and a lot of contrasting effects.
"This sketch tries to Tiananmen Square crowd scene and the city tower on the national leaders together, I think not so insufficient to show the grandeur of the establishment of new China as a historical event ......," Dong Xiwen said in a letter to the famous oil painter Ai Zhongxin. Xu Beihong, Ai Zhongxin, Jiang Feng, Wu Zuoren, Luo Gongliu and other famous artists appreciated the composition of this work.
Dong Xiwen also boldly drew out a large red pillar that was supposed to be on Mao's right front side in the sketch, and the square appeared to be broad, adding no small amount of momentum to the whole picture. After seeing it, Liang Sicheng, a master architect, praised it, saying, "There is a pillar on the right side of the picture that is not drawn ...... This is a big mistake in architecture, but a big success in the art of painting."
Expanded:
Domestically, it opened a new era in China's history; China ended its humiliating history of being invaded and enslaved for more than a hundred years, and truly became an independent and autonomous country, and the Chinese people stood up from then on to be the masters of the country.
The international has strengthened the forces of world peace, democracy and socialism, and inspired the oppressed nations and oppressed people of the world to fight for liberation. It shows that China is finally an autonomous country and that the Chinese people can become the heirs of the dragon from the sick man of East Asia.
The founding of the Chinese People's **** and State put an end to the history of the rule of a few exploiters over the vast number of laboring people, and the history of imperialist enslavement of the Chinese people of all races, and the Chinese people have been the masters of their country ever since. This is the great victory of Marxism in China, the great victory of Mao Zedong Thought, which combines the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution. A new era has opened up in Chinese history.
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