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

 

        朱宣咸木刻版画创作的第二个阶段：1950年——1979年。

        来到重庆以后创作的作品，主要反映了新中国、新社会方方面面的现实生活。风格上开始接受中国传统绘画和中国民间美术的元素，以套色版画为主。

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        五七干校：是在文化大革命期间，为了贯彻毛泽东主席1966年5月7日“五七指示”精神，将党政机关干部、科技人员和大专院校教师等下放到了农村；五七干校就是他们在农村从事农副业生产劳动、接受贫下中农再教育、批判资产阶级、进行政治学习的场所。

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.