Red Art

Red Art — Plot

The launch and development of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution not only has a series of CCP Central Committee documents that have promoted wave after wave of movements, but also has various propaganda methods. A large number of different types of literary and artistic products have been produced in a collective form and with the input of the State. As a weapon of revolutionary struggle, works of art are important representatives of this period. Art was a tool for the Cultural Revolution; it fully embodies its aesthetic characteristics, actively cooperating with the development of various movements and the popularization of ideas. It has cultivated the values ​​and visual experience of a generation of Chinese people — the paintings of the Cultural Revolution have been regarded as treasures by Chinese collectors. This film shows the characteristics of the Cultural Revolution paintings through a large number of paintings, as well as the bloody violence and despotism behind them.

• Release date
• November 5, 2008
• Runtime
• 70 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Hu Jie

Red Art — Cast

L

Li Xingtao

Z

Zhou Jineng

L

Liu Chunhua Li Bin

H

Harriet Evans

R

Roger Howard

Y

Yan Zhengxue

X

Xie Tao