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The Founding Ceremony of the Nation 开国大典 (Kaiguo dadian) , 1953
Dong Xiwen (1914-1973) was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. In 1934, he entered the National Hangzhou Arts Academy. The Academy sent him to Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1939, where he studied for six months. During the war, he worked in Guizhou and Chongqing. He became fascinated with the ancient murals in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, which he studied for two and a half years. After the war, he was recruited by Xu Beihong as an instructor at the National Beiping Arts college. There, he attempted to create a distinctly Chinese style of oil painting. In 1948, Dong started making art in support of the revolution. He prepared the portraits of Mao Zedong and Zhu De for the auditorium where the first National Congress of Literary and Art Workers was held. He witnessed Mao's proclamation of the new People's Republic, and joined the Party in December 1949.
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