Keywords: 
• 抗战；大后方；美术；救亡

Abstract: During the Anti- Japanese War, a great number of fine arts organization, institutes and artists moved to the area under KMT rule, with chongqing as its center. The art activities there became the most active and prosperous during the wartime. This is owing not only to the special geographical environment of Sichuan which provided relatively stable living and working conditions for the artists, but also to the formation of the national united front in the fine arts circle to resist against Japanese aggression. Moreover, the care and support from the Sonthem Bureau of CGP also contributed to the forming of a necessary political atmosphere for the prosperity of fine arts, under the banner of national salvation, the artists, burning with creative passion and power, wrote a brilliant Chapter in the history of modem fine arts in China.