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Criticism and Analysis Blood Line: Big Family Series, Painting by Zhang Xiaogang
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Nafiseh Mohamadi Tamanayi   |
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Abstract: (212 Views) |
Zhang Xiaogang is one of the notable painters in the contemporary China. The article takes an analytic-interpretive study, considers Bloodline: Big family series by Xiaogang comparing. Zhang Xiaogang is one of the notable painters in China. The political and cultural circumstances that occurred during the cultural revolution in China, are both the main subject and spectrum of his artwork. Xiaogang precisely declares the cultural revolution and its impacts on fracturing the human and family identities. This article tries to study the perception of an artist from history and the fracture that caused the inception of the aforementioned political changes through pluralism and collectivism by investigating and redefining the incidents of the revolution that took place in the cultural and political system. Incidents of the revolution that took place in the cultural and political system. The system that was so important in the Chinese contemporary. There are several other artists who have undertaken the contemporary historic incidents in China. They are introduced and several works that have gone through the historic destiny of Chinese contemporary people are described. Besides, it could be hard to perceive these works unless the contemporary politics of China is taken into consideration. Therefore, sufficient explanations about political incidents like Communistic Revolution will be proposed. Considered the works by these artists that undertake the reaction to the unsaid history. The perception and the representation of the incidents of the cultural revolution is critically stated by Xiaogang. He puts what the communists and his leader, Mao, imagined for family and pluralism under scrutiny. Such criticism is recognizable in a selection of Bloodline: Big family series. Having been similar to a family album and the fact that people normally believe that the picture is the symbol of delighted memorable moments depicting the fracture and hidden villainy of human being.
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| Keywords: Zhang Xiaogang, Bloodline: Big Family, Chinese Cultural Revolution, Family Photos. |
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Type of Study: Research |
Received: 2023/09/17 | Accepted: 2021/03/19 | Published: 2021/03/19
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