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In August 1966, at the outset of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, Wu was prohibited from painting and writing about art, and many of his early works were destroyed. In 1970, at the age of 51, he and his wife were separated and assigned to almost 3 years of hard labor in the countryside as part of the Communist Party's vast re-education program. Wu stated, “Life was only planting rice, carrying coal, criticizing one another, and fighting one another…The only thing that no one was allowed to do was paint.” Following that period, he was only allowed to paint on Sundays (his day off from the fields) or on holidays. Wu didn’t suffer too much physical harm because he had destroyed many of his own paintings but this caused him much emotional harm. He heard of artists being persecuted and even killed so he knew he needed to burn the nude paintings since they would be severely criticized and frowned upon. Finally in 1972, he was allowed to return to Beijing to paint hotel murals and decorations.

Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010)

A Long Windless Day Collection of Shanghai Art Museum

A Country Homestead in England (I)

A Deserted BoatCollection of National Art Museum of China

A Fishing Harbour in the Night

Fishing port

Gulangyu, 1977

Fishing boatson the Fuchun River, 1963

A Fleet of Boats

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The Monet pondHommage a C.Monet

Zhouzhuang, 1986

Flowers of Evil Collection of National Art Museum of China

Lotus and Weeds

Camels in the Desert, 1981

Grass Flowers

Five Oxen

Flower and Flower

Red Lotuses

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The Ancient Town of Lijiang at the Foot of the Yulong Mountains

Forgetful snow, 1996

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The Hook of a Crescent

The Banks of the Li River

Spring in Full Play

The Construction of a Building Song

Sound: Dance of spring by Sun Yiqiang - Lang Lang (piano) and China Philharmonic Orchestra

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