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Journal Article
Good Girls and the Good Earth: Shi Lu’s Peasant Women and Socialist Allegory in the Early PRC
2021
Overview
During the most robust years of his career, 1949 to 1964, the artist Shi Lu 石魯 (1919-1982) frequently painted young rural women. The appearance of peasant women in the art of the early Maoist period ostensibly demonstrates the suitability of the subject for visualising state policies that promoted social transformation and women’s liberation. While participating in these nation-building efforts, Shi Lu’s images of peasant women were also a product of global art historical influences, namely allegorical depictions, that manifested subtle influence on the development of twentieth-century Chinese art. The identity of the artist, a Yan’an cadre who provided creative and administrative support to the official art system, reveals how artists navigated political expectations as state functionaries while simultaneously defining them through artistic exploration. Through the case study of Shi Lu and the hybridised global artistic traditions that gave rise to the subject of young peasant women in Maoist China, this article reveals the porousness of an era that has been considered isolated from global currents outside of the Soviet sphere.
