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Yang Keyang (1914-2010)

Moving into a New Home

1959

Woodblock print

50 x 36 cm

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The year 1959 marked the tenth anniversary of the PRC’s establishment. Prints, posters, pictorial magazines and other propaganda acclaimed the social and economic achievements of “Ten Great Years.” Construction of housing, factories, schools and hospitals was especially celebrated. The print is in the colourful, optimistic style that characterizes much art of the late 1950s. Here Yang Keyang foregrounds the socialist workers, but adds a personal, informal flavour by including a happy family on the way to their new home.

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