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 major holidays of the country and the 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 brilliant and heroic pages of history. The Vietnam People's Army "Born from the people, fighting for the people", the small army of the past has now grown steadily, gradually moving towards formalization and modernization.

Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Duc, Director of the Propaganda Department, launched the campaign. Photo: Hoang Hoang

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 mettle of a revolutionary army; a special political force, a fighting force absolutely loyal and trustworthy to 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 "Barefoot - Steel-willed" soldiers, which are a strong source of inspiration for artists to depict works of art praising them.

Through two wars of national liberation, independence and freedom for the country, propaganda paintings about the image of revolutionary soldiers with noble qualities of "Uncle Ho's soldiers" have affirmed their important position with historical and contemporary stature in Vietnamese literary and artistic life.

According to the leader of the Propaganda Department, organizing the movement to create propaganda paintings is a practical measure to contribute to propagating the guidelines, policies and guidelines of the Party, State and Army; conveying meaningful messages to encourage the patriotic emulation movement...

Painter Trinh Ba Quat, former Director of the Special Forces Museum, emphasized that political propaganda paintings have special value in military units. Although in the 4.0 era, and with many means of propaganda, the position and role of propaganda paintings, one of the forms of Vietnamese visual arts, still has great value in the new era...

The campaign is open to professional and amateur artists; Vietnamese citizens at home and abroad. The work is 54cmx79cm in size, has not been submitted to other competitions, and has not been published in any form. The author is responsible for copyright. Each author has the right to submit multiple works.

Deadline for submissions is July 30, 2024.

The Organizing Committee awarded certificates and cash prizes to the authors and winning units, including 11 prizes (1 A prize, 2 B prizes, 3 C prizes, 5 Encouragement prizes), of which the A prize is worth 30 million VND. In addition, 2 movement prizes were also awarded to units that mobilized many authors and many works of good quality.