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Exhibition
Picturing Power:
Art and Propaganda in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
31.1.-28.2.2001 Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg
Completely Smash the Liu-Deng Counter-Revolutionary Line
Chedi fensui Liu Deng fandong luxian
Unknow artist
c. 1967, Hebei
Armed with revolutionary fervor and
Maos Little Red Book, a worker descends
from above to attack tiny figures of Deng
Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi. Liu Shaoqi, chairman
of the Party during Maos temporary
retirement in 1959, and Deng Xiaoping, who rose
to power again in 1979, were both targets of a
strong series of attacks in the early years of
the Cultural Revolution. Through the initiative
of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Red
Guards and their magazine, Art Storm, Deng and
Liu were demonized in the strongest terms.
Artists who had previously lionized them were
struggled against. Most of these paintings were
done in the Soviet style, as traditional guohua
paintings were partly the targets of attack.
Liu and Deng were seen as supporters of
outmoded, imperialistic guohua painting, as well
as capitalist roaders who had opposed Maos
Great Leap Forward.
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