Painter and Hua Guofeng
| Artist | Liu Wei |
|---|---|
| Year | 1991 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimentions | 99.5×99.8×- |
| Country | China |
| Collection no. | 321 |
| Explanation | In the early 1990s, a style of painting known as “Cynical Realism,” which focused on satirical depictions of social conditions, had swept the Chinese contemporary art world. Liu Wei, who graduated from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1989, is one of the leading artists working in this style. In this work, the artist himself is portrayed alongside Hua Guofeng (who became Premier of the Chinese Communist Party in 1976 and overthrew the Gang of Four during the Cultural Revolution). Here, it seems that even a big-name politician is just an ordinary old man to the new generation of youths. |
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