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Gu Yuan

( Chinese, 1919 - 1996 )

The people's Liu Zhidan; Birthday of the Labor Hero; Ma Xiwu Mediates in a Lawsuit; Eighth Route Army Training; Eighth Route Army's Autumn Harvest; Vegetable Field; Resisting the Drought; Helping them Hide; Carrying a Stretcher; Recovering the Grain; Ca

Yan Han

( Chinese, 1916 - 2011 )

The people's Liu Zhidan; Birthday of the Labor Hero; Ma Xiwu Mediates in a Lawsuit; Eighth Route Army Training; Eighth Route Army's Autumn Harvest; Vegetable Field; Resisting the Drought; Helping them Hide; Carrying a Stretcher; Recovering the Grain; Ca

Wo Zha

( Chinese, 1905 - 1973 )

The people's Liu Zhidan; Birthday of the Labor Hero; Ma Xiwu Mediates in a Lawsuit; Eighth Route Army Training; Eighth Route Army's Autumn Harvest; Vegetable Field; Resisting the Drought; Helping them Hide; Carrying a Stretcher; Recovering the Grain; Ca

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Materials:

Woodblock prints, oil-based ink on paper, and color on paper

Size Notes:

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Literature:

In 1938 Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai established the Lu Xun Academy of and Art in Yan'an, to teach artists regional and folk traditions and to endow them with the skills to advance the message of Socialism through their art. Gu Yuan was one of the earliest students and a member of the founding generation of artist who employed the woodcut medium--partly inspired by European expressionism--to achieve these goals. The 1942 Yan'an Forum of and Art, of which Gu Yuan was a participant, transformed these ideals into political doctrine, and Gu Yuan's bold, dramatic images captured the struggles of the people and the promise of revolutionary change

Provenance:

Gifted from Mao Zedong to Howard Hyman on September 16, 1945,Thereafter by descent

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