"A promise is as heavy as a mountain, and you can walk confidently with an old umbrella in your hand. **Youth, with firm steps, walking on rugged mountain roads, fearless of storms and rains, only the direction of progress in his eyes. "
This stunning painting is "** To Anyuan", and in the sixties and seventies, it was printed as stamps and stamps and issued throughout the country, and almost everyone knew about it.
But the most talked about is its economic value, in 1995, this painting was auctioned for 6.05 million **, setting a record for domestic oil painting auctions at that time.
However, the matter did not end there, and the painting was later involved in 3 lawsuits. So, why is that? To understand the great influence of this painting, we must start from the specific experience of the characters in the painting, that is, the *** of the year, and continue to excavate.
Because "classics come from life, higher than life, in order to have eternal value".
In the summer of 1967, in order to interpret the teachings of the first class and appreciate the spiritual outlook of the first class, Beijing deliberately organized an exhibition called "The Brilliant Thought of the Anyuan Workers' Movement".
As a result, after receiving the relevant notice, the teachers and students of various colleges and universities in Beijing devoted themselves to the intense and arduous preparatory work, among which, the creation of a painting representing the image of the best in Anyuan has become a key task in all work.
In order to find the right candidate, the leaders are running around and carefully reviewing the level of applicants, knowing that this is a portrait of the best painting, and the fierce competition is indescribable.
In the end, after the assessment, the two students stood out, the first student had a deep foundation and passed the political performance, but he had to go back to his hometown due to something at home, so the second student became the best candidate.
He is Liu Chunhua, a classmate of the ** Academy of Arts and Crafts, when he received the notice of being selected, he was extremely excited, because his greatest wish has always been to be able to draw a portrait of ***.
Practice is the source of creation, and Liu Chunhua knows this. Therefore, immediately after being elected, he went to Anyuan to experience life and explore inspiration. In Anyuan, he witnessed the origins of the workers' movement in our country.
In the autumn of 1921, ** came to the Anyuan Coal Mine, carrying a dilapidated umbrella and wearing a blue cloth shirt, and personally went to the front line of the coal mine to eat and live with the workers, practicing the concept of practice and true knowledge.
Because of his knowledge, everyone respectfully called him "Sir". * He kindly briefed them on the situation of the workers' movement at home and abroad, and spoke highly of the key role of the workers, which made everyone agree with him.
A year later, after deeply understanding and grasping the needs of the workers and the local situation, he jointly organized the workers with the leaders of the mine and launched the Anyuan Road miners' strike, which triggered an upsurge of the workers' movement.
This is the main work of *** in Anyuan. According to the records, Liu Chunhua re-walked through the places he had been to and heard that the locals were still circulating the stories of the time in Anyuan, and he was very excited about it.
After his own experience, Liu Chunhua returned to Beijing and began his creation. This classic work came into being. Liu Chunhua explained that the old umbrella in the picture symbolizes the simplicity of life, and the mountains in the background and the dense clouds in the sky represent the difficulties and obstacles he faced.
However, ** still strode forward calmly, which shows his spirit of revolutionary optimism to overcome all difficulties.
As soon as the painting was released, it won universal praise from top to bottom, and the leaders of the preparatory activities unanimously praised Liu Chunhua, and even *** couldn't put it down and put it in his bedroom.
At the same time, the painting began to be actively collected throughout the country. By the end of 1969, the national printing department had printed 191.3 billion copies, and later figures were as high as hundreds of millions, making it the most printed classic in the history of oil painting.
Still, it's not flawless, and like many great works, it has some flaws. For example, ** took a train when he was working in Anyuan, but in the painting, Liu Chunhua depicted it as walking, why is this?
Does that mean he didn't have a field trip?
Liu Chunhua lacked knowledge of Anyuan's history, and he found that the train could only go to Pingxiang City, and he needed to take a passenger car to reach Anyuan, so he naturally speculated that there was no train when he went to Anyuan decades ago, so he drew the image of walking.
However, in fact, in the first period, Anyuan Coal Mine is a famous industrial base, for the convenience of workers, Anyuan coal train has been hung with passenger cars, until 1937 after the construction of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway to cancel this practice.
In addition, ** wore a short coat when he went to Anyuan at that time, not the robe in the painting, which *** himself has clarified that he went to Anyuan in the autumn of 1921, not 1920 as noted on the painting.
Despite these errors, the overall artistic value and contemporary value of the painting are still widely recognized.
In 1969, a famous painting was auctioned by millions of people, and in order to allow more people to enjoy it, the painting was collected by the Museum of the Chinese Revolution and attracted countless tourists over the years.
However, after witnessing the great value of his paintings, the painter Liu Chunhua came up with the idea of making a fortune with his paintings. In 1980, he retrieved the painting from the museum on the grounds that it was his own creation, and when he heard about the boom in the auction industry, he decided to put the painting up for auction.
Although hundreds of millions of copies of the painting have been printed, its original value has not been affected in the slightest, on the contrary, because of the passage of time, the original painting in Liu Chunhua's hands is even more precious.
Therefore, after hearing that he had the idea of auctioning his paintings, many top domestic auction houses contacted him. In 1995, after some competition, Liu Chunhua finally chose the prestigious Guardian Auction Company.
Of course, in addition to choosing this house because of its own fame, Liu Chunhua was more moved by its sincerity. At that time, in addition to Guardian Company, Rongbao Auction Company also had a strong interest in the painting, and even gave lucrative conditions, which made Liu Chunhua hesitate.
In order to dispel Liu Chunhua's doubts, Chen Dongsheng, chairman of Guardian Company, personally visited him many times, and seeing his sincerity, Liu Chunhua chose Guardian with confidence.
At the autumn auction in October 1995, after careful planning by Guardian, a painting returned to the public eye. Under the vigorous publicity before the meeting, many units and wealthy people have a strong interest in this painting.
In the end, the painting was successfully auctioned in anticipation, and the bidding process was extremely fierce. Although many of the candidates continued to increase the price, one of the Indonesian buyers showed great interest and contacted Chen Dongsheng through ** and entrusted him to bid on his behalf.
After some fierce competition, the ** of this painting exceeded 5 million, but the emergence of the Guangzhou branch of China Construction Bank made the auction more intense. They directly bid for 5.5 million, which was already astronomical at the time.
Although the Indonesian buyer hesitated, he did not follow in the end. In the end, with a 10% commission, the Guangzhou branch of China Construction Bank successfully won the auction of "** to Anyuan" with 6.05 million yuan.
Liu Chunhua bought an oil painting "** to Anyuan" at a sky-high price at an auction, and then his life changed dramatically, he bought a house and started his own business.
However, the good times did not last long, and a summons from the court was delivered to him, which turned out to be due to the news of the auction of the painting spreading all over the country, triggering three lawsuits. It turned out that the influence of this oil painting "** to Anyuan" was further enhanced after it was designated as a first-class cultural relic in the national collection by the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee.
However, this also caused trouble for Liu Chunhua. The Museum of the Chinese Revolution sued him and the Guangzhou branch of the CCB in court on the grounds of the return of the property, demanding that the CCB return the paintings auctioned by Liu Chunhua.
Although Liu Chunhua lived a nourishing life because of this wealth, he made a big move, and this incident also gave him a taste of the power of the law. From this incident, we can also see that even if you are successful in the business field, you cannot ignore the importance of the law.
More than a year later, Hao Guoxin and Li Shaozhou, who participated in the creation, sued Liu Chunhua in court, and they firmly believed that the ownership of the painting should belong to all the creative staff, and Liu Chunhua had no right to sell the painting privately and monopolize the money.
However, Liu Chunhua was not reconciled, and two years later, he sued Li Shaozhou and others in court on the grounds that the right of authorship of the work had been confirmed. In the five-year-long confrontation, the three lawsuits involved each other, which side was responsible, and how did the court finally decide?
First, let's take a look at the handling of the first lawsuit. The lawsuit is relatively simple, because when Liu Chunhua asked the Museum of the Chinese Revolution for the painting, the museum made it clear that it would be returned, and the painting had Liu Chunhua's signature, which can prove that the copyright has nothing to do with the museum.
The Museum of the Chinese Revolution tried to recover the copyright of the oil painting "** to Anyuan" through legal means, but the litigation claim had already exceeded the two-year statute of limitations stipulated by law, so it could not be recourse by litigation.
After trial, the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court made a judgment on the first lawsuit, holding that Liu Chunhua was the sole author and enjoyed copyright. At the same time, the court rejected the appeal of the Museum of the Revolution.
About the section. 2. The third lawsuit is more complicated because it involves a specific creative process. In the early days of creation, other members of the exhibition, such as Hao Guoxin and Li Shaozhou, participated in the research and discussion of the first draft, and provided Liu Chunhua with many suggestions.
The relevant departments gave financial support to Liu Chunhua in the process of creation, and marked the collective creation when the painting was completed, claiming that the ownership belonged to the collective. However, Liu Chunhua disagreed, because he believed that although others provided advice, the painting was completely done by himself, and their help was not decisive.
In addition, he signed his name after the "collective creation" note after the painting, which was not objected to at the time, and he was convinced that it was enough to prove that the ownership of the painting should be his own.
After careful trial, the court finally ruled in favor of Liu Chunhua after taking into account the fierce dispute between the two parties, and found that Hao and Li's ideas and ideas did not enjoy copyright.
The Museum of the Chinese Revolution and Hao and Li obviously could not accept this verdict, so they immediately appealed after the first trial verdict was over. However, due to the lack of direct and valid evidence, the court ultimately upheld the original verdict.
On April 1, 2002, the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court announced the final verdict, and the three long-running litigation disputes finally came to an end, and Liu Chunhua became the ultimate winner.
However, his monopoly on the proceeds from the sale of paintings has attracted some comments, what do you think about this?