Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s (II)
(from 11th Jul until 20th Nov 2011)Explore the bold and colourful imagery found on posters and other items from this revolutionary period.
Presenting Fine Paintings to Chairman Mao
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Description
This calendar for 1977 depicts Mao at Huxian, the location of an artists’ commune in Shaanxi renowned for its production of peasant paintings with upbeat politically correct subject matter. The Huxian People’s Commune was renowned for the peasant paintings produced there during the Cultural Revolution. With professional assistance from artists who had been sent down to the countryside the peasants learnt to make highly-coloured folk images appropriately devoid of western influence or bourgeois traits. These were hailed as new populist art created by and for the people.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Shanghai province (place of publication)Asia › China › Shaanxi province (Huxian) (subject)
- Date
- 1976 - 1977
- Artist/maker
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Li Fenglan (born 1933) (designer)
- Associated people
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Shanghai People's Publishing House (established 1951) (publisher)Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) (1893 - 1976) (subject)
- Material and technique
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- 54.3 x 76.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.235
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s (II)
(from 11th Jul until 20th Nov 2011)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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