Tag: cultural revolution

out of the dark

7. December 2020 No Comments

A few years after the end of the Cultural Revolution, when I had the chance to live and study in China, I painted this picture: “Out of the dark”.

protective masks in 1980 in beijing

4. December 2020 No Comments

Oil painting "Protective masks in Beijing" from 1980. It shows people with protective masks in front of the "democracy wall".

A lot is in progress, new series but also new to existing series, such as these two graphics with Mao Zedong calligraphies. The callipgraphy reads: 上馬殺賊,下馬學佛 (Shàng mǎ shā zéi, xiàmǎ xué fú Get on your horse and kill the thieves, dismount and study Buddhism) and inspired a great number of monks to serve the nation. in April 1939, the […]