Illustration:
ill. 5.15 b (set: 5.15)
Author:
Raffael (1483 - 1520) 拉斐尔
Date:
1513 / 1514
Genre:
oil painting
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: oil on canvas, 265 cm × 196 cm
Source:
Kindler 1979: Kindlers Malerei Lexikon. Cologne: Lingen Verlag, 1979.8:3331., Heidelberg catalogue entry
Keywords:
Madonna, Liu Chunhua, Raffael, Cultural Revolution art, Chinese artistic heritage, Chinese painting style, European artistic heritage, European painting style

Raffael: Sixtinian Madonna (Xisiting shengmu 西斯廷聖母)

Cultural Revolution art, and with it officially acknowledged MaoArt, too, is a mixed bag of many different styles and each of the images themselves can be considered a peculiar and particular combination of only apparently missing stylistic links (caused by a xenophobic as well as idiophobic ideology prevalent throughout parts of the Cultural Revolution) as it juxtaposed, quite paradoxically, elements appropriated from both foreign and Chinese artistic heritage and style. So, on the one hand, the plasters at the Central Academy of Fine Arts which included such works as Michelangelo’s David, or the Venus de Milo were destroyed in late August 1966 (Andrews 1994:321/322). Yet, on the other hand, Liu Chunhua who would take Raffael’s Sixtinian Madonna as the major inspiration in his Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan–and there is indeed something of Raffael’s Sixtinian Madonna in the movement of the feet and drapery of the gown–would have created a “model painting.” (See also DACHS Continuous Revolution).