China News Service, Shanghai, October 1st (Zhang Jian) With the help of the brushes of college students, the faces of the volunteer martyrs who died on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea are reproduced.
On September 30, the reporter saw in a studio of Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology that several college students were restoring portraits of martyrs who died on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
Meng Yuanhang, secretary of the Youth League Committee of the School of Art and Design, introduced that since 2020, the Youth League Committee of Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology has cooperated with Songjiang Martyrs Cemetery to restore portraits of volunteer martyrs who have not left their portraits in the park.
"Among the more than 170 martyrs in the Songjiang Martyrs Cemetery, only 70 have images. After many martyrs were found, their relatives were very sorry, that is to say, they never saw their fathers or brothers. Because they went directly to the battlefield, there were no images. stay".
Meng Yuanhang recalled that as soon as the idea of restoring the portraits of these martyrs was put forward, it immediately received a positive response from many college students with art expertise.
The college students are taking pictures of Zhang Jian in the restoration of the portraits of the martyrs
Gao Hua, a college student, said that this method not only allows project members to remember the stories and appearances of these veterans, but more importantly, allows more young college students to continue to remember the stories and appearances of these veterans.
After consulting the families of the martyrs and sorting out the list of the first batch of 13 martyrs, the college student volunteers responsible for restoring the portraits first came to the cemetery of the martyrs to learn about the deeds of the martyrs, and then visited the families of the martyrs. The restoration work was carried out by means of a combination of brushes and technology, and the manuscript was changed several times, and the image of the martyr was finally reproduced.
During this period, oral narration by martyrs’ families and comrades in arms was the main way to obtain clues about the appearance of martyrs. However, most of the interviewees were old, their language expressions were vague, and many elderly people could only communicate in local dialects, so college student volunteers could only visit multiple times. , reviewing, drawing drafts, and figuring out and revising the details repeatedly. During the whole drawing process, there were more than 100 scraps, and it took more than a month to complete one.
The college students are taking pictures of Zhang Jian in the restoration of the portraits of the martyrs
"The next step is to restore these static portraits of martyrs with some technology through the development concept of art and technology in our academy, so that he can 'live' and 'move', so as to truly realize that martyrs can communicate with him. Families engage in a kind of 'conversation' across time and space, and that's what we're about to do."
Meng Yuanhang said.
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