Illustration:
ill. 5.73 (set: 5.70)
Author:
Chen Yanning (1945-) 陈衍宁
Date:
1978
Genre:
poster, propaganda poster, painting
Material:
Internet file, colour, original source: poster colour
Source:
Chen Yanning Who is in charge of the universe? 1978 (DACHS 2009 Propaganda Poster Westminster Who is in charge of the universe?), Heidelberg catalogue entry
Courtesy:
University of Westminster Chinese Poster Collection
Keywords:
Mao Zedong, young Mao, clouds, mountains, scholar's gown, gesture, leader, Mao portrait, God

Who is in charge of the Universe (Wen cangmang dadi shei zhu chenfu 问苍茫大地谁主沉浮)

And up in the clouds, overlooking the vast landscape, Mao does look rather similarly transcendent and detached as in Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan in this, another depiction given the appropriate title Who Is in Charge of the Universe (问苍茫大地谁主沉浮) and painted by Chen Yanning 陈衍宁 (1945–) in 1978.