CULTURAL REVOLUTION

The Cultural Revolution in China (1967-77)

The Cultural Revolution in China (1967-77)

Introduction

Four internationally renowned artists - Zeng Fanzhi, Wang Guangyi, Shen Jiawei and Hung Liu - contemplate on the quickly altering terrain of up to designated day Chinese culture in lush, poetic paintings on lend from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Political Pop encounters expressionism, realism, history and nostalgia in paintings that comment on China's present and future while evoking its political past.

During China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the only kind of artistic expression allowed was a pattern of authorized propaganda that glorified the Communist regime through heroic pictures of peasants and workers. China remains a Communist state, but since 1978 when the country's finances opened up to remainder of the world, its culture has undergone a factual revolution.

The artists in this public displaying exploit the flexibility they now have to draw on all eras of Chinese and Western art. In managing so, they not only talk of their one-by-one experiences navigating the social and political upheaval of the last three decades, but they furthermore contemplate the conflict of outmoded Socialist concepts with the consumerism conveyed about by capitalist reforms.

Recognizing the deepness and diversity of China's post-1978 art view, Charles Mason, then Curator of Asian Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, started in the late 1990s to expand the Allen's assemblage of Chinese art into the present. The AMAM extends to foster its holdings of up to designated day Chinese art, which encompass the paintings boasted in Culture Revolution.

 

Art and Culture of China

China, one of the world's oldest civilizations, has its cultural origins that designated day back to over five 1000 years. It has a rich book of invaluable very vintage artifice that comprises the artistic gifts and diligence of Chinese people. The Chinese culture has enthralled and shifted numerous people from all over the world, being so exclusive and outstanding as well as dignified and inspiring. Chinese art is full of uncommon attractiveness and charm. Long before history was even recorded, the Chinese had already manifested their dignified flavour of art through diverse art forms. Pottery, paintings, calligraphy, very vintage cartoons, folk arts, paper slash are just a couple of demonstrations that vividly reveal the dream and fantasy of the people from this venerable country. Chinese philosophers, poets and writers assisted greatly to maintaining and encouraging the Chinese culture. They were documented for documenting the pain of the common people, who were often deprived, much to the discontent of the authorities.

 

Traditional Culture

Architecture:

For over two 1000 years, Chinese architecture has been inextricably connected with Chinese culture. There has been leverage of Buddhist method in Chinese architecture and sculpture from the Sui and Tang dynasties and in its academic pattern it has been inspired by Indian art of the Gupta period. Chinese architecture emphasizes on symmetry in everything from castles to farmhouses. Gardens, although, had an asymmetrical configuration. Gardens are ready to create lasting flow, to let the patron wander and relish the flower bed ...