Currently not on view
In Revolution There is Justice 造反有理,
7/1968
Old Labor Revolutionary Team of the Vehicle Repair Section, Changxindian District 长辛店车辆段老工人造反队
Chinese
Modern period, 1912–present
2001-44
Painted during the Cultural Revolution, this workers-group painting exemplifies a style developed in deliberate reaction against the elite, or literati, painting and calligraphy traditions of imperial China, seen in the paintings displayed in the center of the exhibition. Art theory and manifestos of the period adopted the cry for art to serve the aims of the state. In contrast to the personalized tradition of literati art, the new paintings were often anonymous, or, as in this example, signed by a factory division or collective group.
Information
Title
In Revolution There is Justice 造反有理
Dates
7/1968
Maker
Medium
Sheet; gouache on paper (framed)
Dimensions
Painting: 180.0 x 87.5 cm. (70 7/8 x 34 7/16 in.)
frame: 186.1 x 95.9 x 4.2 cm. (73 1/4 x 37 3/4 x 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2001-44
Inscription
Text:
造反有理
In Revolution There is Justice.
马克思主义的道理千条万绪，归根结底就是一句话：‘造反有理’
长辛店车辆段 老工人造反队 68.7
In the doctrine of Marxism there are one-thousand principles and ten-thousand guidelines, but in the final analysis it comes down to just one saying: "In Revolution There is Justice."
- Old Labor Revolutionary Team of the Vehicle Repair Section, Changxingdian District, 7/68.
Note: Changxingdian is a district in suburban Beijing, and the Section was a vehicle repair shop or garage.
Culture
Materials
Subject
–2001 China 2000 Fine Art (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2001.
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2001," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 61 (2002): p. 101-142., p. 123
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 24 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 24
