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Poster propagandist's long road
By Xiao Xiao |
June 29, 2009, Monday
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IN his early years, Shen Yiqian, the great painter and journalist during the time of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-1945), was apprenticed to the Japanese painter Tatsumi Hosokawa and later studied Western as well as Chinese painting at Shanghai Training School of Fine Arts.
After the "September 18th Incident" in Chinese history, Shen gathered dozens of his school mates to work on anti-Japanese posters and they posted the pieces at every station along the Beijing-Shanghai Railway. They also created English versions and sent them to the US and Canada. One of Shen's masterpieces called "The Sharpshooter" was later included in the album of the "Modern Chinese Art Collection."
Back then, playwrights like Tian Han and Yang Hansheng and painters like Xu Beihong and Pan Yuliang thought very highly of Shen and his works.
"At that time, there were few artists who had the courage to follow their passion for their own country and take up art as their weapon to fight against the enemy. He was one of a kind," Meng Tian, one of Shen's anti-Japanese painting group members recalled.
During the period of anti-Japanese war, Shen did portrait painting for Chairman Mao Zedong, Premier Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao, Lin Boqu, He Long and Feng Yuxiang. One of his outstanding portraits of Cun Xingqi, the division commander who died for his country in the battle of Zhongtiaoshan, became an emblematic memorial to honor the martyrs.
Mao Dun, the writer, remarked in his article "Thoughts on Yiqian's Exhibition" in 1942, "Among so many artists, he's the one who managed the longest and farthest journey."
After the "September 18th Incident" in Chinese history, Shen gathered dozens of his school mates to work on anti-Japanese posters and they posted the pieces at every station along the Beijing-Shanghai Railway. They also created English versions and sent them to the US and Canada. One of Shen's masterpieces called "The Sharpshooter" was later included in the album of the "Modern Chinese Art Collection."
Back then, playwrights like Tian Han and Yang Hansheng and painters like Xu Beihong and Pan Yuliang thought very highly of Shen and his works.
"At that time, there were few artists who had the courage to follow their passion for their own country and take up art as their weapon to fight against the enemy. He was one of a kind," Meng Tian, one of Shen's anti-Japanese painting group members recalled.
During the period of anti-Japanese war, Shen did portrait painting for Chairman Mao Zedong, Premier Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao, Lin Boqu, He Long and Feng Yuxiang. One of his outstanding portraits of Cun Xingqi, the division commander who died for his country in the battle of Zhongtiaoshan, became an emblematic memorial to honor the martyrs.
Mao Dun, the writer, remarked in his article "Thoughts on Yiqian's Exhibition" in 1942, "Among so many artists, he's the one who managed the longest and farthest journey."
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