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1978-1988

https://chineseposters.net/gallery/e13-871

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reflection

In this class, the teacher asked us to form a group and make suggestions for each other to change the essays. My essay failed to express Mao Zedong's influence on the people and China's Visual communication. My essay is more like a pile of information, which does not clearly prove the point of each paragraph. For example, how did MAO Zedong influence Visual Communication in China during the Cultural Revolution; What the red style and the presence of the Red Guards represent; What was the relationship between the development of Visual Communication in China after and after the Cultural Revolution? I need to express my ideas more clearly and prove them with the information I find.

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Essay process and reference site

During the Cultural Revolution in China, people formed a team composed of people for reform and carried out propaganda activities such as supporting Chairman MAO and propagating reform ideas. During this period, a unique form of visual communication came into being in China called Red Style. This unique style drives the development of Visual communication in China and even forms a national trend. This organization composed of people is the beginning of China's internal turmoil and the key to the development of Visual communication in China. Even in modern times, the distinctive style of the Cultural Revolution still exists.

The introduction of the third paragraph：1. Visual Communication propaganda of red Guard 2. Rules of creation and art serve the workers, peasants and soldiers. 3. The ordinary people were personified by artists. 3. With art as a tool and artistic creation as a means to engage in the struggle of the "Cultural Revolution" (politicisation). 5.The widespread craze for artistic creation.

Link: http://discovery.cctv.com/20070728/100818.shtml

http://artspy.cn/news/view/673

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/apr/17/chinese-photobook-exhibition-london-martin-parr

https://chineseposters.net/posters/e15-699

After the Cultural Revolution, China began to walk out of its shadow of the Cultural Revolution. However, it still could not change the influence of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese artists. A new trend is spreading all over China, which is called "post-89 art". Post-89 art is similar to borrowing the format of red style to change the meaning of propaganda content. After the emergence of "post-89 art", the art form known as "political pop" also appeared in Chinese Visual Communication works.

http://artspy.cn/news/view/673

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Essay process and reference site

The topic of my essay is the influence of the Cultural Revolution on Visual Communication in China. The first paragraph of the essay mainly describes the Cultural Revolution, the thoughts of Chinese people during the Cultural Revolution, and the paving for the following sections. I have consulted the official website of the Chinese Party School and Chinese history professors' studies of the Cultural Revolution.

Link: http://artspy.cn/news/view/673 

http://news.cctv.com/special/C19504/20070928/108953.shtml

Since the founding of new China in 1949, the Chinese people's national confidence has dramatically increased. Under the influence of national ideology, Chinese people are becoming more and more extreme. In the late 1950s, with the idea of abandoning old beliefs and embracing new ones, the Chinese people began the decade-long Cultural Revolution. The leader of this revolution was MAO Zedong, the leader of China at that time. Zedong Mao was very inspiring in China at that time, and Chinese people regarded him as a god. His image had a significant influence on China during the Cultural Revolution, so I focused on the impact of MAO Zedong on China in the second paragraph.

Link: http://artspy.cn/news/view/673

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/apr/17/chinese-photobook-exhibition-london-martin-parr

http://news.cctv.com/special/C19504/20070928/108953.shtml

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Reference Books

Book name: Iron fists: branding the 20th-century totalitarian (Steven, 2008)

This book mainly tells the influence of Chinese leader Mao Zedong on China's communication during the Cultural Revolution, the thought and reform among Chinese people, and the form of Visual communication in China.

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Essay’s main idea

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Reading Images

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Reading and annotating selected text

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Written material

Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State was the perfect source for my subject choices. It was the first illustrated survey of propaganda art, graphics and artwork created by the totalitarian governments of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the Soviet Union and Communist China. This book contains information from 20th century graphic materials such as typefaces, signs, posters, advertisements, children's books, flags and MEDALS. I can find a lot about the development of Chinese art in the 20th century in this book.

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Visual Material

Chinese red guards during the cultural revolution in 1966. Photograph: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images

This is a group of Chinese who joined the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution in 1966.The main reason for choosing this photo is that in the period I chose, the Cultural Revolution was the most traumatic period for Chinese art, and this photo captures the radicalism of people in that era.

Peasants study Chairman Mao’s quotations in the Little Red Book - the ‘bible’ of the Cultural Revolution during a break from rice planting, 1970, Guangxi, China. Photograph: Sinopix/REX/Shutterstock

During this period, Chinese people worshipped their leaders so much that they would gather together to recite their leaders' sayings and memorize them by heart. This picture is very rare to record this scene, so I choose this picture.

Granet Private Collection (1775-1849)

This poster is the propaganda poster of the Communist Party of China during the war. The image of the girl in the poster is the most classic image of the Chinese Communist soldiers at that time. I choose this poster because it expresses the Chinese people's longing for peace at that time.

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WEEK 4

This week's course is mainly a group discussion of last week's homework. We need to briefly explain the four mood boards of last week, so that the students in the same group can understand what we have written. After that, everyone will express their opinions and say what they are most interested in others' works.I am very interested in French Revolution and Fashion written by Scarlett, and have a deeper understanding of Chinese media and typesetting written by myself.

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Making and print process

This is the printing technology from the 1930s to the 1970s in China, and it has brought great influence to China.

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Art & Design (B)

At that time, graphic design and photography were developing in China.

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Art & Design (A)

At the time of my choice, There were two famous cultural and artistic movements in China. One was art Nouveau and the other was the Cultural Revolution. During this period, China was undergoing reform, and the two movements changed the development of Chinese architecture and art respectively.

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Socio-Cultural Mood Board

I collected a lot of information on the Internet, but it was difficult because I chose the period when China was undergoing reform, so it was hard to find Chinese art and culture at that time. Finally I found useful information using China websites.

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Question

1.What books were popular at that time？

2.What was the written design like at that time？

3.Which artist was the most popular at that time？

4.What was the newspaper like then?

5.What style of clothes do people wear？

6.What was the most popular activity at that time？

7.What movies did people watch?

8.Who was the most outstanding director at that time?

9.What was people's living environment like at that time?

10.Did people go shopping at that time?

11：Where do they buy clothes?

12.Who was the famous photographer at that time?

13.What technology was used in photography at that time?

14.What was the situation in the country at that time?

15.Who is leading this country?

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Mood Board of Chinese Geography and History