Artist: Fu Baoshi
Date: 1951
Size: 62 x 109 cm
Technique: Paper
This painting depicts the Red Army crossing the Dadu River in Sichuan Province during the Long March (1934–36). Together with the capture of the Luding Bridge, this achievement enabled Mao’s troops to continue their northward retreat toward Yan’an in Shaanxi Province. The political message of struggling against all odds is also applicable to Fu’s effort to find new ways of negotiating Chinese painting under the changed political order. When Eastern Bloc artists saw this and other works by Fu at the First National Chinese Painting Exhibition in 1953, they recommended that his art be published in Europe.
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