Artist paints Uncle Ho's portrait. Photo: Nguyen Hoa Binh |
At the ceremony to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam Union of Literary and Arts Associations (1948-2023), General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized: “There is only great aspiration and ambition for creativity. Only then can we go far and be sustainable.”
The ultimate goal of an artist is a good work, a work of high ideological and artistic value. It reflects the soul and national character, the great and powerful things of people and predicts the whole future!
Always encourage, encourage and create the most favorable conditions for cultural activities, folklore. This must be considered as both a responsibility and an emotion, stemming from the requirements of life and the common cause of all of us.
Artists have to stick to life
Over the past 75 years, a team of revolutionary artists and writers have always accompanied the nation, creating a new face of Vietnamese traditional culture. That culture on the one hand promotes the traditional cultural and artistic values of the nation; on the other hand, it is the truest example, reflecting the vivid, heroic reality, full of glorious feats of our nation in the Ho Chi Minh era.
Up to now, the artistic team has more than 4 people, including 5 generations of ethnic groups and regions throughout the country.
Artists and artists under the common roof of the Vietnam Union of Arts and Culture Associations have had impressive growth and development, making a great contribution to the creation of cultural products, meeting the increasing demand for enjoyment. people, bringing culture deeper and deeper into all areas of social life. With the results achieved, folklore has made an important contribution to the task of building a cultural environment and building people; fight against all wrong manifestations, create a healthy atmosphere in society.
Over the past 75 years, art and literature have made an important contribution to the task of building a cultural environment and building people. |
The General Secretary pointed out that Vietnamese society in the period of renewal and deep integration is taking place very excitingly and rapidly, and many new problems have arisen, much different from before, during the war and the colonial period. grant.
That requires each artist to renew themselves, both bravery and alertness; both have a new level, vision, way of thinking and expression in artistic creation, in line with the practical requirements of Vietnam's development today.
More than ever, the artist must stick to life, dare to enter the spearheads of life in agriculture, industry, service, in the marketplace and on the defense, security and foreign affairs fronts; come to remote areas, ethnic minority areas, borders and islands to discover and reflect on new factors, good practices, new problems arising in life, actively participate in actively and responsibly in the tasks of society, especially the fight against corruption and negativity, contributing to the building of a socialist, civilized, elegant, human-filled Vietnamese person. .
Artists must stick to life, dare to go into the spearheads of life. |
Many people often say that art must illuminate life, not just where life manifests itself; Art fosters and enhances people, not just a place to express personal moods and lower people.
According to the General Secretary: "Is that lesson still the same: Great aspiration, lofty ideals, harmonizing your heart beat with the heart beat of the whole nation, rolling with the rich and vibrant reality of the country? people's lives, not just falling into personal moods, gnawing on thoughts, cynical, using tricks instead of talents, looking at life from a narrow perspective, even considering art as simply a a hobby, entertainment or a game, a trivial passion”.
The reality of literary life in our country and in the world shows that great authors are all writers with great aspirations and ambitions, with far-reaching visions and deep thoughts. Only great aspiration and ambition for creativity can go far and be sustainable.
Let's make an effort to paint the common picture
After 15 years of implementing Resolution No. 23-NQ/TW of the XNUMXth Politburo on "Continuing to build and develop folklore in the new period", Vinh Long province's traditional culture activities have made many new changes.
Mr. Tran Thanh Son - Chairman of Vinh Long Culture and Arts Association said that folklore activities have closely followed the political tasks of the locality.
Topics about the sea, islands, national borders, building rural areas, studying and following Ho Chi Minh's thought, morality and style, ethnic minorities, teenagers and children, and traditional ways network, socio-economic construction and development, national defense-security, traffic safety, tourism, culture... are included in investment programs, contests, and creative activities every year and in the year. each activity. Many authors have made new discoveries, built new images with new perspectives.
Despite many difficulties in the process of adapting to the constant movement of society and difficult economic life, some authors were unable to devote themselves to creative activities, but they still did not give up. Persistence in professional work is a valuable quality of an artist.
Mr. Tran Thanh Son shared, it is necessary to have mechanisms and policies to attract talents, and to train the successors of artists and writers. And the potential of folklore can only be liberated, in addition to the efforts of each author, there must be adequate investment from the State, not only like other professions but also need a specific mechanism.
It takes ambition and ambition to create valuable work. |
Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee - Nguyen Thanh The emphasized that in the coming time, Vinh Long province will continue to affirm that folklore is a sharp and delicate tool on the ideological and cultural front; together with culture, folklore is the foundation and driving force of development; economic growth must go hand in hand with the development of traditional culture; The development of traditional culture is the task of the whole political system.
Vinh Long continues to build a team of artists and writers growing in quantity and improving in quality, meeting the requirements of developing a culture rich in tradition, fighting strength and modernity. Since then, the team of artists has promoted the creation of folklore, producing many works of high ideological and artistic value.
The Party, State and people always expect and firmly believe that the Vietnam Union of Arts and Culture Associations and the team of Vietnamese writers and artists will always accompany the nation and the Party's renovation cause; continue to promote their precious and glorious revolutionary tradition; promote innovation, creativity, better meet the requirements of the cause of cultural revival, building Vietnamese people in the new era.
Article, photo: PHUONG THUU