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Painting Over ‘The Founding Ceremony of China’
This iconic painting is famous to all Chinese people, across the nation and for generations. The art work is not necessarily the best aesthetically or accurately depicted, but because of the subject matter, it can’t be avoided: familiar to text books, national museums and many families have it on their wall. It’s The Founding Ceremony of China, a patriotic depiction of the grand ceremony on October 1, 1949 in Tian’anmen Square when the country was officially founded.
What is not so well known is the creative and political process behind it, and the fact that the painting went through several changes over the two decades after its creation. Because of changing political climates, “sensitive” figures were washed off or painted over, resulting in a “politically correct” founding of the country.
On the painting, Chairman Mao on the center left immediately catches the eye—he stands upright and is taller than anyone else on the painting, making an announcement of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on the rostrum of Tian’anmen. On his left, a group of the country’s leaders listen attentively with pride. Eleven of their faces are recognizable as vice presidents, premiers, chief justices and other leaders of the country. Down on the square, crowds gather to celebrate with a sea of red flags reaching all the way to the skyline, the whole country immersed in a feverish festival under a blue sky.
Commissioned by the Chinese Revolutionary Museum in 1952, Dong Xiwen (董希文), the then 37-year-old artist and professor at the Central Academy of Art, was selected for the important task of capturing history. Experienced in heroic portraits and revolution themed paintings…
