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Red Arts C008

Director：Hu Jie, Ai Xiaoming
Subject：Cultural revolution / Arts
Price: HKD1,100.00
China / 2007 / 70 min
In Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles

Red Art reflects the development of poster art during the Cultural Revolution, which started in 1966, and how posters were used as propaganda. The film contains interviews with former painters, Red Guards, contemporary researchers and collectors at home and abroad who talk about the meaning of the posters.

Red Art follows "Painting for the Revolution: Peasants Painters in Hu County, which documents how folk art was transformed by the political campaigns, and records the artists' memory of this unusual period of history.

Red Art is a homonym in Chinese word "Red Guard", which implies a metaphorical significance. As Mao's poems usually convey the impression of "sunset as blood-red", the title summarizes Mao's image of the revolution and the cost that people and art had to pay.