PEKING SCULPTORS, PAINTERS PERFORM GLORIOUS TASKS
[The following two paragraphs have been extracted from a report. on the preparations: for celebrating the seventeenth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China which appeared in the September 30 daily. bulletin of the Hsinhua News Agency. J
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The painting and sculpturing of portraits and busts of Chairman Mao has been the glorious task of the revolutionary: teachers and students of the city's art schools, who take great pride in performing it. A four meters high plaster statue of the great leader which now stands in the grounds of the Central Academy of Fine Arts is the work of the Red Guards, the revolutionary teachers, students and workers of the academy's sculpture faculty, the result of three. weeks of collective. effort. This statue of the beloved leader will be displayed in public on national day.
In the Peking Working People' s Cultural Palace, a group of Red Guards and revolutionary teachers and students have been at work on a huge oil painting showing Chairman Mao Tse-tung with the Red Guards, to be carried by the leading contingent in the coming national day parade. Pictures of Chairman Mao Tse-—tung with the revolutionary masses. and of the splendid victories won in the great proletarian cultural revolution are being painted by Red Guards and revolutionary teachers and students on walls along Peking's main streets. These pictures express the boundless love felt by the people of all nationalities in all parts of the country for their most respected leader, Chairman Mao, whom they see as the red sun in the hearts of the revolutionary people and whose heart is linked with the hearts of the revolutionary masses.