Chian Art Current: A Virtual Museum

The Cultural Revolution, or the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," which took place between from 1966 and to 1976, and was designed to punish the Communist leaders who criticized Mao's failed Great Leap Forward experiment in at the end of the 1950s, and ; it was also an a continuation of Mao's attack against on the intellectuals. Leaders from Peng Zhen to Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, as well as millions of intellectuals, all suffered during this period. Mao's power reached its apex during this period, when a cult of personality was born. All the cultural and social destruction that were committed uponbefell China and its people during this period time were done in the name of Mao Zedong. Art works from this the period thus are both eyewitnesses and evidences evidence to testimony the extreme of usinguse of art to propagate propagandize Mao's political appetites.appetite. Through Mao's utilizing use of the China's young people and the masses against the political and cultural establishments,establishment, he unexpectedly, Mao inadvertently created a generation of "new" new type of Chinese, those who became individual individualistic, and independent thinkers. The great culture cultural changes that took place soon after the Cultural Revolutions Revolution were spearheaded by this new generation.