Period:Unknown Production date:1976-1979 (originally drawn in 1976)
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Dimensions:Height: 10.80 centimetres Width: 22 centimetres
Description:
Drawing of a kneeling figure extending to a face with windswept hair. Ink on paper.
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Comments:In 1976, Qu Leilei was working at the news division of the China Central Television. He was sent to Tangshan to help document the deadly earthquake that razed the city. The magnitude of death that he witnessed as well as the memory of hardships during the Cultural Revolution prompted him to express his thoughts in drawings. The small kneeling body in Wind shows the weight of reality that Qu felt and the head with wind-swept hair represents the longing for freedom. The image was pasted on the Democracy Wall in Beijing (a section of wall near the Forbidden City where people put up posters of protest) between 1978 and 1979 as part of the literary journal The Moment (Jintian 今天). It was so popular that the image was repeatedly taken, so several versions were produced. This version was exhibited at the Stars exhibition in 1979, both outside the National Art Museum of China and when the exhibition resumed at Huafangzhai Gallery in Beihai Park after the initial showing was banned by authorities.
Materials:paper
Technique:drawn
Dimensions:Height: 10.80 centimetres Width: 22 centimetres
Description:
Drawing of a kneeling figure extending to a face with windswept hair. Ink on paper.
IMG
Comments:In 1976, Qu Leilei was working at the news division of the China Central Television. He was sent to Tangshan to help document the deadly earthquake that razed the city. The magnitude of death that he witnessed as well as the memory of hardships during the Cultural Revolution prompted him to express his thoughts in drawings. The small kneeling body in Wind shows the weight of reality that Qu felt and the head with wind-swept hair represents the longing for freedom. The image was pasted on the Democracy Wall in Beijing (a section of wall near the Forbidden City where people put up posters of protest) between 1978 and 1979 as part of the literary journal The Moment (Jintian 今天). It was so popular that the image was repeatedly taken, so several versions were produced. This version was exhibited at the Stars exhibition in 1979, both outside the National Art Museum of China and when the exhibition resumed at Huafangzhai Gallery in Beihai Park after the initial showing was banned by authorities.
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