Reading at Night in the May Seventh Cadre School
By Zhu Xuanxian
Woodcut, 73×60cm,
In Chongqing City,  China, 1974
NO.W-004

 

        朱宣咸木刻版畫創(chuàng)作的第二個階段：1950年——1979年。

        來到重慶以后創(chuàng)作的作品，主要反映了新中國、新社會方方面面的現(xiàn)實(shí)生活。風(fēng)格上開始接受中國傳統(tǒng)繪畫和中國民間美術(shù)的元素，以套色版畫為主。

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        五七干校：是在文化大革命期間，為了貫徹毛澤東主席1966年5月7日“五七指示”精神，將黨政機(jī)關(guān)干部、科技人員和大專院校教師等下放到了農(nóng)村；五七干校就是他們在農(nóng)村從事農(nóng)副業(yè)生產(chǎn)勞動、接受貧下中農(nóng)再教育、批判資產(chǎn)階級、進(jìn)行政治學(xué)習(xí)的場所。

When he was in Chongqing, which reflected the actual situations of various aspects of the new Chinese society. In the artistic style, he began to accept the elements of traditional Chinese painting and Chinese folk arts, and concentrated on chromatic woodcut.

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May Seventh Cadre School: during the Cultural Revolution of China, to implement the “May Seventh Instruction” by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966, the cadres of the CPC and governmental organs, the technical personnel and the teachers of colleges and schools were sent to countryside. The May Seven Cadre School refers to the place where they were engaged in the rural production, received the re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants, criticized the bourgeois and studied politics.