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Published: 2007-02-16 18:22:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 2111; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 49
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This is the title-page illustration I've done for my universitary thesis: "Political pop - Icons of the cultural revolution in chinese contemporary art".I've selected a classic Chinese Communist party icon (the Forbidden City Gate: Tian'an Men) and melted it with the title of the thesis and another very present icon in modern chinese advertisement (I'm quite sure that nowadays in Beijing there are more Audrey Hepburns than Mao Zedongs)
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Well,it should be ๆฟๆฒปๆณขๆฎ rather than ๆญฃๅผๆณขๆฎ.
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You're right! I was a BA degree student, back then, so I blame the teachers that never tried to stop me.
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What is a BA degree student?
BA็บงๅญฆ็ๆฏไปไน๏ผ
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Very nice! Is it based on an chinese poster or is the composition made from scratch?
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The forbidden palace, as you can imagine, is a common feature on chinese propaganda posters, I just changed chairman Mao's face putting on Audrey's one.
So i took inspiration from more than one reference (visual and not) and put all together...
I felt free to do that way because that illustration wasn't supposed to be used with lucrative purposes
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she's more my god than mao ever could've been
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That was partially the point of my short paper, indeed!
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well.. i'm chinese, so it does carry some meaning.. but mao was ahead of my time even though the legacy that he passed on was/is still present when i was in china and definitely when my parents were in china
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True: I've been in Beijing for six months and in this wide period of time I visited his mausoleum too. That was not for any political tendency: I just wanted to experience one of the most vivid and explicit example of the power of his image today. There was a real crowd of people bringing flowers at the feet of his statue. Sadly here in Italy some people (I must say a big percentage) has an idealized opinion about the old Chairman: luckily in other parts of the world there's not the cult of the main character of the 60 years ago history of my country.
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don't worry
that was overshadowed by hitler
and the imagine of romantic italians and their tomatoes in tuscany
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IEHEHEHE!!!
That's a good one!!!
You get the message straigh away!!!
Very well thought & resolved!!!
Great cover!!! Congratulations!!!
Keep it up!!!
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