Liu Zhide (1939) is a native of Huxian, Shaanxi
Province. He has been fond of painting and folk art since childhood. He
received training at the Mass Art Center of Xianyang district, the Mass
Art Center of Shaanxi Province, and at Shaanxi Daily. Liu, who is one of the best-known representatives of the Huxian peasant painters, devoted many of his works to aspects of farm life.
The poster above is considered Liu's masterpiece. It
has been reproduced in numerous newspapers and magazines, and even as a
stamp.
Liu has participated in many provincial, national and international
exhibitions. He himself has served as Party secretary of his village,
and has been the chairman of its cultural center.
Sources:
Important Art of New China 1949-1979 (China Guardian Auction Catalogue 1997, Beijing)
Jutta Bewig, Bauernmalerei aus Huxian [Peasant Paintings from Huxian] (Frankfurt/M: Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Chinesische Freundschaft 1979)
Fine Arts Collection Section of the Cultural Group Under the State Council of the People's Republic of China (eds.), Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County (Peking: People's Fine Arts Publishing House 1976)
Stewart E. Fraser, (ed.), 100 Great Chinese Posters: Recent Examples of "the People's Art" from the People's Republic of China (New York N.Y.: Images Graphiques, Inc. 1977)
Maria Galikowski,, Arts and Politics in China, 1949-1984 (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press 1998)
Guowuyuan wenhuazu meishu zuopin zhengji xiaozu (eds.), Shanghai,
Yangquan, Lüda gongrenhua zhanlan zuopin xuanji [Selection of
Works from the Exhibition of Workers' Art from Shanghai, Yangquan and
Lüda] (Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe 1975)
Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists -- A Biographical Dictionary (Berkeley, etc:
University of California Press, 2006)
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