Art was a huge part of this history, with an influence on everyday life inconceivable today. Put at the service of politics, it promoted ideas, shaped public emotion and acted as a force of moral persuasion. The painter Chen Danqing, active as a young artist during the revolutionary era, does not exaggerate when he says in the show’s catalog, “At the time I felt there was no difference between me and the Renaissance painters: they painted Jesus; I painted Mao.”
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