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Painted during the communalization of agriculture known
as the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960). Jin spent a great deal of time
in the countryside documenting this period. This piece demonstrates the
influence of contemporary Soviet social realism on Chinese art before
the Sino-Soviet split of 1960. Russian painter Constantine Maximov taught
oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing from 1955
to 1957, where he and Jin were associates. |
