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Chairman Mao Talking with Shepherds
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Description
Liu Wenxi was in the first group of students to learn a new figure painting style using wide lines and ink texture variation introduced in the early 1950s at the East China branch of the National Academy of Art. The style combined the strong outlines of Soviet heroic figure painting with the inflective possibilities of Chinese brush and ink. In the later part of the Cultural Revolution Liu served on the painting correction group for the 1973 national art exhibition, helping to create new versions of works submitted with correct political content but inferior artistic skill.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (place of publication)Asia › China › Shaanxi province › Yan'an (subject)
- Date
- August 1964
- Artist/maker
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Liu Wenxi (born 1933) (designer)
- Associated people
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People's Fine Arts Publishing House (established 1951) (publisher)Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) (1893 - 1976) (subject)
- Material and technique
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- 77 x 53 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the E. H. North Bequest, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.293
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s (I)
(from 8th Mar until 3rd Jul 2011)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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