Illustration:
ill. 5.16 b (set: 5.16)
Author:
Dong Yuan (934 - 962) 董源
Date:
10th century
Genre:
Chinese landscape painting
Material:
scan, paper, grayscale
Source:
Tregear 1980: Tregear, Mary. Chinese Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980:109., Heidelberg catalogue entry
Courtesy:
Thames & Hudson
Keywords:
Liu Chunhua, Mao goes to Anyuan, Chinese landscape painting, Chinese artistic heritage, Chinese painting tradition

Liu Chunhua and Chinese landscape painting

The background scenery and especially the structured mountains in Liu’s work obviously are akin to Chinese landscape painting rather than referring to European models. This Chinese element becomes all the more striking when comparing Liu’s painting with a slightly earlier composition by Jin Shangyi (ill. 5.17) which, as Julia Andrews suggests, could well have stood model for Liu (Andrews 1994:340/341) and which recurs in many propaganda photographs (e.g. ill. 5.50). (See also DACHS Continuous Revolution).