- Title
- Plaster Cast
- 石膏像
- Date
- 1953
- Medium
- Sketches
- Technique
- Sketch
- Accession
- YJH-000005
- Catalogue no.
- YS-1953-001
- Foundation collection
- Foundation collection
- Inscription
- 2. Sketching is the foundation of all plastic arts. My teacher Xu Beihong took this as his precept; I have followed it without lapse, yet I have still been unable to live up to the earnestness of his hopes. With every work I feel mind and hand at odds. Now my good teacher is gone, and I can receive instruction only from […]; thinking of this, I am all the more spurred on. I therefore set down his bequest and share it with my fellow students as a mutual exhortation. Autumn 1953. Jianhou
Art belongs to the people. It must send its deepest [roots] into the broad masses of workers. It must be [understood] and loved by them…. Lenin
