SONG ODE PRAISE YAN'AN vtg 1976 CHINESE PROPAGANDA POSTER Qian Songyan 钱松岩 21x30

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SONG ODE PRAISE YAN'AN vtg 1976 CHINESE PROPAGANDA POSTER Qian Songyan 钱松岩 21x30"
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Size:             21" x 30"
Stock:           Medium weight
Artist:
QIAN, SONGYAN 钱松嵒
Printed In:     China
Date:             1976 (second printing)
Origin:           Private collection
Status:          Out-of-print (OOP)
Mounting:      NOT mounted / loose poster
Shipping:       Ships rolled in a rigid tube.
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Description:
Chinese colored propaganda poster, featuring the landscape of Yan'an revolutionary base. Image shows mountains, a pagoda, a pavillion, Yaodong (house caves) and the industrial district with many smoking chimneys in the valley. Chops upper and lower margin, Chinese calligraphy showing the title and the artist upper margin. Excellent copy, text in Chinese lower margin, poster measures 30.25” x 20.75”. Poster reproduces an image painted by the famous Chinese painter Qian Yansong (1899-1985) during 1960s from the watercolour painting series of "Ode to Yan'an".
Notes:            "
At the end of the Long March, the surviving remnants of the Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army reached the desolate and desperately poor area of Yan’an (延安), Shaanxi Province. In what was to become known as the Yan’an Period (1935-1947), most of the policies of the CCP that had been started in the Jiangxi Soviet were further refined and many others were first tried out. Here, the lingering influence of the Soviet Union in the fields of organization, politics and strategy, was replaced by a specific Chinese interpretation of how things were to be done. It was from here that the image of an upright and patriotic CCP spread to become a feasible alternative for the increasingly corrupt and inept Guomindang. In Yan’an, Mao Zedong’s personal rule within the Party was consolidated; Mao Zedong Thought was formulated; the Mao cult was started; policies were set that were to guide literature and arts until the present day; rectification movements were employed to maintain discipline; friendships were formed, and antagonisms emerged that would be fought out during the Cultural Revolution; and the "mass line" ("from the masses, for the masses") was developed. It would all contribute to the formation of a myth that even today remains powerful among Party leaders."
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