A Project Won the Support of Special Fund for Fine Arts and Literary Creation of Hubei Province in 2022

On the occasion of the 70^th anniversary of CUG, it was recently learned from the Propaganda Department of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee that the project “A City of Heroes: Record of the Battle against COVID-19 in Wuhan by Pictures” declared by Chen Huawen, a graduate student supervisor of this School, was approved as the Hubei Fine Arts Creation Support Project in 2022.

This year, there are nearly 60 programs supported by the special fund for fine arts and literary creation of Hubei Province, which are divided into six categories: literature, film and television, stage arts, music, visual arts, and network audio-visual. “A City of Heroes: Record of the Battle against COVID-19 in Wuhan by Pictures” is supported as a visual arts project.

The picture book “A City of Heroes: Record of the Battle against COVID-19 in Wuhan by Pictures” includes three parts in the form of sketches + text, i.e. taking the mission in a crisis, tiding over difficulties, and dawn of the battle, with 100 sketches. The objects are medical staff, hospital builders, people's army, people's police, community workers, volunteers and other groups. The scenes of our teachers and students combating COVID-19 are presented in the book. All the sketches in the book were created by Chen Huawen in more than 50 days during the battle against COVID-19 in Wuhan in 2020.

 “A City of Heroes: Record of the Battle against COVID-19 in Wuhan by Pictures” is the only picture book in China that presents a panoramic view of the battle against COVID-19 in Wuhan. It was published by China Juvenile and Children's Publishing House in December 2021 and listed in the recommended list of publications with the theme of "The Spiritual Pedigree of Chinese Communists". 20 original manuscripts in the picture book were collected in the National Museum of China in 2020.

“A City of Heroes: Record of the Battle against COVID-19 in Wuhan by Pictures” follows the times, focuses on Hubei, and is close to people's hearts, highlighting the spiritual qualities of the people in Wuhan to overcome the difficulties and help each other in times of crisis. The picture book is created based on realism and has a strong visual appeal. The characters are vivid and accurate, and the movements and modeling are also vivid. The sketches are created with pen sketching as the main expression technique, while integrating the expression techniques of Chinese painting and printmaking.

After the publication of the picture book, it was reported by many media such as People's Daily, Xinhua Net, Guangming Net, China News, China Literature and Art Net, China Publishing & Media Journal, Wenhui Net, Hubei TV, Hubei Education TV, Wuhan TV, Changjiang Net and Wuhan Evening News. Beijing Daily, Xi'an Daily, China Education News Web, China Science Daily, and other media, commented on the picture book.