Illustration:
ill. 5.14 (set: 5.7)
Author:
Li Fenglan (1933-) 李凤兰
Date:
1973
Genre:
New Year Print, peasant painting
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: oil painting, colour
Source:
Wang 2008: In Art and China’s Revolution, edited by Melissa Chiu and Zheng Shengtian. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008:68., Heidelberg catalogue entry
Keywords:
Huxian peasant paintings, peasants, countryside, sun, harvest, popular peasant painting, Cultural Revolution

Happy Harvest of Cotton (Xi zhai xin mian 喜摘新棉)

This image exemplifies the style of popular peasant paintings and New Year Prints which are dominated by repetitive natural elements (most well-known the decorative Huxian variety, which is quite akin to the depiction here, and has achieved international fame). See also DACHS Continuous Revolution.