Kyle’s capstone project, titled “The Humble Iron Painter: Literati Representations of Tang Peng and Tiehua in Qing-Era China,” at McDaniel College built upon his earlier research on Chinese iron painting, known as tiehua. Taking a new perspective, he looked the cultural and
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Resistant Mass Culture As explored in detail in “Socialist Realism & Tiehua,” with the CPC’s control of Mainland China came a wave of new art: socialist realism, based on its Soviet counterpart. This changed art that met the public eye quite heavily,
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The following post contains information from multiple previous posts arranged in a different way. This is meant to compliment the author’s tiehua galleries: As we have seen, the establishment of the Qing Dynasty was no easy time for the Han Chinese—they were
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Within an examination of contemporary China, it is important to explore the role of globalization on Chinese art and the nation as a whole. Art is a way for Chinese artists to ponder what a modern China can really be like, though this
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In all societies, the governing body presiding over the people has an inherent influence on artwork, both direct and indirect. Unfortunately, modern China does not have a strong history of artistic freedom, though resistance has persisted in some ways. During the earlier
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