93 Years-old Veteran Artist

Ri Ryul Son, well-known for his excellent Korean paintings, is on picturesque Moran Hill to create another work.

Ri of ９３ years-old lives in Ryonhwa-dong No. ２, Central District, Pyongyang Municipality.

Ri, who devotes his creative zeal even in the old age of his life, is the doyen in art circles who created many art pieces of national value.

Born into a peasant family before the national liberation, he had been called a prodigy in his village for his inborn talent for art.

He could bring his precious dream and hope into full bloom only after the national liberation. Cherishing the preciousness of the country, he joined the Korean People’s Army and fought bravely during the Fatherland Liberation War.

Thanks to the benevolence of the country, he graduated from Pyongyang University of Fine Arts and since then he taught students for over ４０ years

Among his disciples are Kim Il Sung Prize laureates, labor heroes as well as many people’s artists, merited artists, professors and doctors.

The Party invited him who has upheld the country with brush all his life to the national conferences of war veterans and also awarded him with the valuable honorary title.

At present, the older he gets, the more vigorous he becomes and keeps carrying out his creative activities to depict the beautiful appearance of the country undergoing tremendous changes year by year under the wise leadership of the respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un in a lively way in the wake of creating the Korean painting "Might of Science and Technology" which portrayed agricultural workers who are endeavoring to increase crop yield under the wise leadership of the Party.

Rodong Sinmun