People’s Artisan Nguyen Ngoc Trong shows VOV reporter a picture of one of the reliefs created by him at the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics in Hanoi.

There are countless artworks about President Ho Chi Minh in literature, music, painting, sculpture, architecture, theater, and cinema.

Two bronze reliefs at the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics in Hanoi show cadres being trained in accordance with the Party’s guidelines and President Ho Chi Minh’s teachings. The reliefs were created by a group of Hanoi’s skilled artisans led by People’s Artisan Nguyen Ngoc Trong.

“Each bronze relief covers an area of 12 square meters. One depicts President Ho Chi Minh and his teachings highlighting the Party’s key task of training cadres, with his signature below. Representatives of all classes - workers, farmers, soldiers, and intellectuals - are portrayed along  with a bronze drum, lotus flowers, and the Party’s hammer and sickle flag. The other relief portrays the President’s wish to build a more beautiful and modern Vietnam with images of constructions, factories, farms, among others,” Trong told VOV.

Songs about President Ho Chi Minh are very popular in Vietnamese music. The song "Ho Chi Minh is the most beautiful name", written in 1960 by Tran Kiet Tuong, is considered one of the best songs about President Ho.  

Tran Tu Thanh’s painting “Uncle Ho with children” on the rooftop of Hanoi’s Information House.

Prints of Tran Tu Thanh’s painting “Uncle Ho with children” appear all over Vietnam, often associated with the slogan “Independence, Unification, Peace and Happiness”. The original painting has hung for more than 40 years on the rooftop of Hanoi’s Information House in the Old Quarter, symbolizing Hanoi, the city of peace. The painting was awarded second prize at the first National Fine Arts Exhibition in 1976.

“The painting depicts President Ho Chi Minh holding a child in his arms. This symbolizes the eternity of Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh always attached great importance to young Vietnamese, considering them the future of the nation. On the right side of the painting is an S-shaped map of Vietnam. The white background of the painting is in the form of a dove with an olive branch, which represents peace. In the dove’s eye, there is a point that indicates the capital city of Hanoi,” Thanh told VOV.

Foreigners have also created works about President Ho Chi Minh. Cuban poet Felix Pita Rodriguez was awarded the Special Prize in Literature for two poems entitled “Ho Chi Minh-your name is like a poem” and “Capital Hanoi misses Uncle Ho” at a recent writing contest launched by the Party Central Committee Commission for Communications and Education on the topic “Following President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and lifestyle”.

President Ho Chi Minh lives on in the hearts of Vietnamese people and international friends through many outstanding artworks about him and his great career.