Other Paintings
The Working Class Must Exercise Leadership in Everything, 1970: This painting has similar figures to the 1991.6.1 . There is a crowd with a large figure of Chairman Mao. However, instead of having a gray scale, this painting is painted in bright colors to represent for a new hope that leads to empowerment and happiness. In this painting, Chairman Mao is considered a bright leader who will bring joy and peace to the country. People in the crowd has a happy and confidence look under the direction or plan of Chairman Mao. The Chairman is drawn bigger than the other figures. The artist intentionally put a more focused details on the Chairman character to emphasize his role as a big brother or father that is pointing or leading people to a better place.
30th Mary: This painting is still under the Cynical Realists and bald head figures . In this painting, the background and the children are painted in bright colors . Besides, figures are located in the spiral pattern in which children are flying back to heaven. There are two different critic approach to this picture. One approach is that this painting reveals a new hope for the young generation that can change the future of China. People have hopes on the youths that they can restructure or remodel the society so that everybody can have a voice and everybody lives in freedom. The other approach describes death as a relief from this life. Because life is too stressful or too complicated, death becomes the best solution to escape from this world to go to a more peaceful place such as heaven.
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