Ma Changli 马常利

Ma Changli (1931), a member of the Hui minority, was born in Shanhaiguan, Hebei Province. In 1953, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Art Academy and stayed on for another ten years to do research. He assumed a teaching position in 1963. Ma now serves as a professor in the department from which he graduated.

Agricultural cooperativization is the socialist course that makes everybody prosperous, 1956

Ma is known for his oil paintings, a number of which have been included in the collection of the China Art Gallery.

Carry out Chairman Mao's behests and carry the proletarian revolutionary cause through to the end, 1976

The art for the poster above was a collaborative effort by Ma, Yin Rongsheng and Yang Xianrang.

Source:
Zhongguo meishuguan (ed.), 中国美术年鉴 1949-1989 (Guilin: Guangxi meishu chubanshe, 1993)

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