Red Journey

Author: Tang Lin, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: After looking through this art collection, we should reaffirm our confidence in the correct creative methods and boldly proceed along them. Due to years of influence from Western "modernist and postmodernist" trends, many fundamental issues in art have been distorted, deconstructed, and discarded. The various components of the correct creative method have been twisted, dismantled, and scorned. Art creation has turned into a non-rational game, a farce, abandoning engagement with life, life drawing, training in form and color rules, historical and social themes. Everyone goes on painting personal trivialities and foolishness around them, playing with empty and meaningless expressionism, drawing crude, poster-like misspellings. Under such circumstances, can you expect any decent or outstanding works to emerge? This book presents, in a concentrated manner, outstanding Chinese revolutionary historical art from the 20th century to today's readers, and through insightful and accessible commentary, endows these works with new historical and aesthetic significance, the implications of which are undoubtedly profound.