page_title: Vietnamese art
section_title: Propaganda Posters
hierarchical_section_title: Vietnamese art / Modern art / The Time of Resistance wars 1945 - 1975 / Propaganda Posters
caption_attribution_description: English: South Vietnam propaganda poster
context_page_description: Vietnamese art is visual art that, whether ancient or modern, originated in or is practiced in Vietnam or by Vietnamese artists.
  Vietnamese art has a long and rich history, the earliest examples of which date back as far as the Stone Age around 8,000 BCE.
  With the millennium of Chinese domination starting in the 2nd century BC, Vietnamese art undoubtedly absorbed many Chinese influences, which would continue even following independence from China in the 10th century AD. However, Vietnamese art has always retained many distinctively Vietnamese characteristics.
  By the 19th century, the influence of French art took hold in Vietnam, having a large hand in the birth of modern Vietnamese art.
context_section_description: Propaganda poster painted during the period of “operation rolling thunder” in 1965 reflects a clear anti-colonial and anti-imperial messages. Likely inspired by the Soviet and Communist Chinese, they carried a political intention. Following strictly to the culture of new Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh's concept, was to "stimulate intellectual and artistic creativity for art and cultural development".
  “Culture is seen as a powerful motor of development, and cultural identity as a constant in the harmonious development of society and the individual.” 
  "images such as those presented in the propaganda posters and paintings of the time were key indicators of how the population was to perceive the environment, the government, and the future. the posters and paintings were sometimes the only voices the people heard, the only clues they had to knowing and how to respond."
caption: A South Vietnamese propaganda poster depicting the countryside
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