Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Duc, Director of the Propaganda Department (General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army) said that this is a key cultural and artistic activity to implement projects to celebrate the country's major holidays. country and army in 2024.
The history of revolutionary struggle and the glorious tradition of the Army over the past 80 years are associated with years of fighting and sacrifice, imbued with pages of glorious heroic history. Vietnam People's Army "Comes from the people, fights for the people", the once small army has continuously grown, step by step moving towards formality and modernity.
During 80 years of fighting, building and growing, facing countless challenges and hardships, especially the turning points of the revolution, the Army has always shown the bravery of a revolutionary army; a special political force, an absolutely loyal and trustworthy fighting force of the Party, State and people.
Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Duc shared that the heroic history has left behind many profound memories and realistic images of the "Bare Feet - Steel Will" soldiers, which are a strong source of inspiration for artists portraying them. produce works of art praising them.
Through two resistance wars to liberate the nation, gain independence and freedom for the country, promotional paintings depicting the image of revolutionary soldiers with noble qualities "Uncle Ho's soldiers" have affirmed their position. important position with historical and era significance in Vietnamese literary and artistic life.
According to the leaders of the Department of Propaganda and Training, organizing campaigns to create propaganda paintings is a practical measure that contributes to propagating the guidelines, guidelines and policies of the Party, State and Army; conveying messages of great significance to encourage the patriotic emulation movement...
Artist Trinh Ba Quat, former Director of the Special Forces Museum, emphasized that this type of political propaganda painting has special value in military units, even though in the 4.0 era, many propaganda media The position and role of the propaganda painting genre, one of the types of Vietnamese visual arts, still has great value in the new era...
Participants in the campaign are professional and amateur artists; Vietnamese citizens at home and abroad. The work has dimensions of 54cmx79cm, has not been submitted to other competitions, and has not been disseminated in any form. The author is responsible for copyright. Each author has the right to submit multiple works to the competition.
The deadline for receiving works is July 30, 7.
The organizing committee issues certificates and bonuses to the winning authors and units, including 11 prizes (1 prize A, 2 prizes B, 3 prizes C, 5 Consolation prizes), of which prize A is valuable. 30 million VND. In addition, 2 movement awards were also awarded to units that mobilized many authors and many works of good quality.
