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Zhu Minggang (1915-2013)

Nothing is Too Difficult in the World

1952

Woodblock print

31 x 22 cm

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Zhu Minggang made black-and-white prints and taught art in 1940s China and Taiwan. This work shows the optimistic outlook of the PRC’s early years. A worker learns to play the saxophone: nothing is too difficult. Certainly it is propaganda, but not explicitly political, which was unusual at the time. Little is known about his art or teaching in the 1960s-70s, but Zhu returned to work after the Cultural Revolution. From the 1980s, he painted landscapes and other nature subjects.

Muban Educational Trust registration number zhumg005