Gigantic painting reenacts historic Dien Bien Phu Victory
‘Dien Bien Phu’ – a massive painting of 132m wide and 9m high that took three years to be completed – was approved by an art council on May 4.
Part of the painting (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – ‘Dien Bien Phu’ – a massive painting of132m wide and 9m high that took three years to be completed – was approved byan art council on May 4.
Placed at the Dien Bien Phu Victory Museum in the northernprovince of Dien Bien, the artwork, featuring 4,500 characters, is a panoramaof the Dien Bien Phu battlefield at different times from late 1953 to May 7,1954.
It depicts the entire army going to battle, the opening combatat Him Lam hill, the A1 hill battle, and the triumph.
The painting was done with about 30 painters drawingcontinuously and some occasionally. Most of the participating painters areyoung graduates from the Vietnam University of Fine Art.
Nguyen Van Mac, director of the cultural heritagepreservation company and a manager of the art project, said it aims to conveyan image of a people’s war.
Luong Xuan Doan, Chairman of the Vietnam Fine ArtsAssociation, said it is an epic by drawing, adding that the participation ofyoung people makes the painting even more valuable.
The Dien Bien Phu Campaign lasted from March to May 1954under the command of General Vo Nguyen Giap. Its victory on May 7, 1954 led tothe signing of the 1954 Geneva Accords in which France agreed to withdraw itsforces from its colonies in Indochina./.
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Part of the painting (Source: VNA)