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Oil and screenprint on canvas depicting young Mao Zedong. Mao looks at us over his shoulder with thin, delicate eyebrows, high cheekbones, and the stem of a pink lotus flower held in his feminine lips.

Oil and screenprint on canvas depicting young Mao Zedong. Mao looks at us over his shoulder with thin, delicate eyebrows, high cheekbones, and the stem of a pink lotus flower held in his feminine lips.

Oil and screenprint on canvas depicting young Mao Zedong. Mao looks at us over his shoulder with thin, delicate eyebrows, high cheekbones, and the stem of a pink lotus flower held in his feminine lips.

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Li Shan

Li Shan 李山

Rouge - Flower 胭脂-花

1995

In this adaptation of a well-known portrait of Mao Zedong as a young man, Li Shan feminises some features and places a lotus flower between the leader’s sumptuous lips to hint at sexual undertones.

Mapping Chinese Art, 1972–2012: Selections for the M+ Sigg Collection. M+, Hong Kong, 2019. sigg.mplus.org.hk

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Object Number:

2012.541

Object Type:

Related Makers:

Li Shan (Artist)

Medium:

oil and screen print on canvas

Date:

1995

Dimensions:

overall: 105.6 × 141.8 cm

Collection:

M+ Sigg Collection

Credit Line:

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation

Copyright:

© Li Shan

About the Maker:

Li Shan (born 1942, Lanxi) graduated from Heilongjiang University in 1963, and from the Arts Department (Oil Painting) of Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1968. A founding member of the Political Pop movement in 1990s, he is known for his portraits of Mao Zedong set against a blue, pink, or green background and accompanied by a lotus flower. Li lives and works in Shanghai.

Li Shan Painting Visual Art M+ Sigg Collection

M+ Exhibition History

M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, 23 February 2016 to 05 April 2016

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