Greater Efforts in order to Accelerate the Four Modernizations (为加速实现四化而努力)

© Li Hua

Greater Efforts in order to Accelerate the Four Modernizations (为加速实现四化而努力)

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Greater Efforts in order to Accelerate the Four Modernizations (为加速实现四化而努力),

1958

Li Hua 李桦, 1907–1994
Chinese
Modern period, 1912–present
2011-30
This scene of a factory, with cranes and workers loading a freight train, celebrates the Four Modernizations, government reforms officially promoted by Premier Zhou Enlai at the First National People's Congress in 1954, and again in 1963 and 1964. The four target areas for Chinese modernization were agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology.

Information

Title
Greater Efforts in order to Accelerate the Four Modernizations (为加速实现四化而努力)
Dates

1958

Maker
Li Hua 李桦
Medium
Lithograph; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
image: 47 x 40 cm. (18 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.) sheet: 54.8 x 44.2 cm. (21 9/16 x 17 3/8 in.) mat: 71.2 x 55.8 cm. (28 1/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Asian Art Department Fund and gift of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Object Number
2011-30
Place Made

Asia, China

Inscription
In graphite, lower left In graphite, lower right
Culture
Chinese
Period
modern Chinese styles and periods
Type
lithographs, prints
Materials
ink, paper (fiber product)
Subject
men, political art, figures (representations), factories, industry, revolutions

–2011 Guardian Auction (Beijing, China), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, Mar. 21, 2011.

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