Illustration:
ill. 5.35 (set: 5.34)
Author:
Shi Lu (1919-1982) 石鲁
Date:
1972
Genre:
painting
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: hanging scroll, ink on paper 147.5 x 87 cm
Source:
Andrews and Shen 1998: Andrews, Julia, and Kuiyi Shen. “The Modern Woodcut Movement.” In A Century in Crisis. Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth Century China, New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1998: 213-25, plate 185., Heidelberg catalogue entry
Keywords:
guohua 国画, Chinese landscape painting, Hua Shan, foreign consumption

Shi Lu: Mount Hua (Shi Lu. Hua Shan 石鲁：华山)

During this time, Shi Lu also painted this rather crassly and irregularily textured and loosely brushed national-style scroll of Mount Hua, complete with poetic inscription, emphasizing the enormity and inaccessibility of the peak. Quite conspicuously, paintings such as this one did not include Mao. Especially for those pieces of art made for foreign consumption, so-called hotel art, concern not to offend foreign sensibilities, which would begin to play an ever greater role after the Cultural Revolution and with the economic opening of China to the world later in the 1970s, was obviously already at work here. (See also DACHS Continuous Revolution).