The Mansudae Art Studio, a comprehensive art production base of the country, is greeting its diamond jubilee on Sunday.
Established in 1959, the art studio played the leading part in breaking new ground for the development of the country’s fine arts.
Numerous monuments, carved wall images, paintings, calligraphies, embroideries and craftworks created by the artists of the studio are seen in the revolutionary martyrs cemetery, the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum and Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery, as well as structures of lasting value and cultural bases.
“Among lots of artworks of national treasure value produced by the studio, we take the greatest honour and pride in having contributed to erecting the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, artworks depicting them, towers to the immortality of the President and the Chairman and the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun,” said Kim Song Min, People’s Artist and deputy head of the art studio.
The studio gives priority to the development of Korean painting by maintaining the principle of creating the Juche-oriented art pieces which are national in style and socialist in content, while constantly developing different types and kinds of art forms to meet the demand of the times and the aspirations of the people, and produces new forms of artworks.
Today, it has various production units, especially the Merited Sculpture, Korean Painting and Oil Painting production units.
Over the past six decades, it has produced ten laureates of Order of Kim Il Sung and Order of Kim Jong Il, 23 Kim Il Sung Prize and Kim Jong Il Prize winners, two twice labour heroes, 28 labour heroes and many other winners of high national orders and people’s and merited artists.
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