The Art Exhibition by the DPRK Mansudae Art Studio and DPRK Embassy in London has taken the UK by storm !. In just one day 350 people had visited it. All sorts of people from different walks of life are visiting the exhibition including a group of old farmers who admired a painting of some DPRK tractors being washed in a river .
The exhibition caused great excitement in the cultural world with people even talking about it on trains.
The light of Juche Art shone brightly through the exhibition . Visiting the exhibition one could see clearly the superiority of Juche-based art. Some of the pictures looked like photographs such as the one of the horse. When you visit the DPRK you will see artists everywhere doing paintings or drawings. Of course this used to be familiar site in the UK many years but nowadays you do not see that many artists at work in the UK . I can remember visiting the temple at Mt Myohyang and seeing an artist absorbed in his work painting a picture. In the DPRK can you go to university free of charge and study for an art degree and then become an artist at an Art Studio such as the Mansudae Art Studio. In the UK it is different studying for an Art degree is expensive. Not only but there is little chance of employment at the end of it , many parents sigh when they hear that their child is studying art at the university because an Art degree in the UK is often little more than a useless piece of paper and arts graduates end up unemployed or working as toilet cleaners.
It is probable that the UK public and cultural circles were attracted by the purity and realism of the Juche-based art of the DPRK which stands out in contrast to decadent art of capitalist society . In capitalist culture there are many degenerated art forms such as abstract art and surrealism etc. There have been even attempts to present piles of bricks or unmade beds as works of art !
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il explained
"Thanks to the Juche idea, the socialist realism of our era is making a contribution to improving the ideological and artistic qualities of socialist art and literature by continuously inquiring into and developing the new principles of artistic generalization and the ideological and aesthetic appraisal of real life. The socialist realism of our era is essentially the Juche creative method, Juche realism.
The fundamental principle of Juche realism is to be national in form and socialist in content. Here, socialist content is smashing the old, creating the new, and waging a struggle to achieve the independence of the masses who have become the masters of their own destiny; national form is what is liked by the people of a given country and suits their sentiments and tastes. The important principle advanced by Juche realism as a creative method can be successfully carried out only by the unity of socialist content and national form."
Inspired by the teachings of the great leaders comrade Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and the leadership of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un the Juche-based artists of People's Korea will create many more great artistic works and the light of Juche art will shine ever more brightly.
Dermot Hudson
UK KFA
Juche Idea Study Group of England.
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