Zong Qixiang's Description of the War of Liberation

Zong Qixiang was the first painter in New China to create a large-scale painting of the Battle Group. 1In August, 949, Zong Qixiang participated in the first national art exhibition, left his post without pay from Beiping National Art College and worked as an art teacher in the Third Field Army. He trained a group of artistic talents for the army, organized and created more than 20 large-scale oil paintings of the Huaihai Campaign, which was 2 meters by 4 meters, and the large-scale military oil paintings painted by Zong Qixiang: Du Qiu Li Juntuan and other groups. It is collected in the Museum of Chinese Revolutionary History. Published in the first issue of China History Museum 1950, East China Warrior Pictorial 195 1. 195 1 year, Yang Sigen's 2m× 2m oil paintings won the first prize in the first army art exhibition. This masterpiece was printed as a postcard and sent to the front-line anti-American soldiers. Before he began to create the oil painting Historical Painting of Huaihai Campaign, Zong Qixiang had gone through a very difficult preparation process: in the dead of winter, he started from Nanjing, sometimes by car, sometimes on foot, walked along the Grand Canal to the Canal Railway Bridge, and then made field observations along the Huaihe River. Shortly after the end of the war, there were still traces of artillery damage on the old battlefield. In Nianzhuang, the most fierce war, it is still in ruins. In the ditch outside the fence, the rags of the dead and wounded were still covered.

Peng Bin, a student of Zong Qixiang, once participated in this battle with the army. He introduced to Zong Qixiang how to fight this battle at that time. According to these on-the-spot investigations, Zong Qixiang framed several parts of the group painting: seizing the canal, breaking through the village, and finally winning. The creation of "The Final Victory" once took a lot of thought. At first, the composition of this painting was based on the scene inside the besieged enclosure: the enemy was surrounded by groups, the ammunition was exhausted, and the airdrop was ineffective, so we had to kill the army and horses to satisfy our hunger. After much deliberation, the painter finally changed his perspective. The final composition is that the defeated army filed away from the excavation and surrendered, surrounded by smoke. The PLA soldiers standing with guns on the left side of the picture are in awe, which is the most prominent part of the whole painting. This composition makes the winning and losing beauty and ugliness have a reasonable layout, and the theme of the work is more distinct. This oil painting is four meters long and two and a half meters wide. It is the biggest work of Zong Qixiang at that time and the beginning of his "hotel painting" in the future. In order to complete this group of huge paintings, he practiced drawing many small oil paintings and sketches. In order to accurately express the temperament of prisoners, he studied hundreds of materials written by enemy prisoners in detail, talked with prisoners and understood their thoughts. After these paintings were published in art magazines, they were printed into tens of thousands of posters, which had a wide influence throughout the country, forming a kind of military figure style painting with a fragrant smell. The contents of his works were used for reference by many painters and young students at that time, which influenced several generations of young painters in the 1950s and 1960s in China.

After Beiping Art College was merged into the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Xu Beihong, who is as expensive as gold, has been paying close attention to this self-cultivated disciple. At first, he agreed with and encouraged him to go deep into the army to experience life, cultivate talents for the army, and leave his post without pay for Zong Qixiang, but he hoped to return to the Academy of Fine Arts to teach at an appropriate time. In this way, Zong Qixiang returned to work in the Academy of Fine Arts. He used to be the director of the watercolor department of the Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the instructor of the cadre class, and trained students such as Yang Zhiguang and Wang Naizhuang. Zong Qixiang's students, Yang, Xu from the Literature and Art Group of the People's Liberation Army, all went to the hospital for further study and became students of Zong Qixiang in the cadre class. Yang Cun went to Liberation Pictorial, Lv Mai and Wang Huiyong were assigned to work in Hangzhou, and Wu Min was assigned to the Political Department of the Navy. Later, several of these students became successful.

196 1 year, Zong Qixiang presided over landscape teaching in the Central Academy of Fine Arts and served as landscape director. The landscape painters are He, Li Keran, Tao Yiqing, etc. Trained students such as Zhang Ping, Wang Wenfang, Zhang Renzhi, Jia Youfu and Li Baolin. Zong Qixiang's artistic achievements in China, his traditional Chinese paintings: landscapes, figures, flowers and birds.