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Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s (I)

(from 8th Mar until 3rd Jul 2011)

Explore the bold and colourful imagery found on posters and other items from this revolutionary period.

Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s
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At the Happy Hearth of the Motherland

  • Description

    Zhang Wei is from Beijing, and trained in oil painting at the Central Academy. He has worked at the publications Xinjiang Pictorial and Xinjiang Daily. This image depicts a delegation from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to Beijing in a meeting with Chairman Mao. The landscape painting in the background is by the artists Fu Baoshi (1904–65) and Guan Shanyue (1912–2000). Its title –‘This land with so much beauty aglow’– and patriotic subject are taken from the opening line of one of Mao’s poems. The painting is nine metres wide and hangs in the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    AsiaChinaHebei province Beijing (place of publication)
    Date
    January 1964
    Artist/maker
    Zhang Wei (born 1932) (designer)
    after Fu Baoshi (1904 - 1965) (artist)
    after Guan Shanyue (1912 - 2000) (artist)
    Associated people
    Xinjiang People's Publishing House (established 1951) (publisher)
    Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) (1893 - 1976) (subject)
    Material and technique
    lithograph
    Dimensions
    52.5 x 74.5 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased with the assistance of the E. H. North Bequest, 2006.
    Accession no.
    EA2006.296

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