The Founding Ceremony of the Nation
The Founding Ceremony of the Nation is a 1953 oil painting by Chinese artist Dong Xiwen. It depicts Mao Zedong and other Communist officials inaugurating the People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square on October 1, 1949. A prominent example of socialist realism, it is one of the most celebrated works of official Chinese art. It is now in the National Museum of China in Beijing, where it is on display alongside other works of art by Chinese artists including Ai Weiwei, Zhang Yimou and Liu Shaoqi.
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The Founding Ceremony of the Nation is a 1953 oil painting by Chinese artist Dong Xiwen. It depicts Mao Zedong and other Communist officials inaugurating the People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square on October 1, 1949. A prominent example of socialist realism, it is one of the most celebrated works of official Chinese art. The painting was repeatedly revised, and a replica painting was made to accommodate further changes, as the leaders it depicted fell from power and later were rehabilitated. The use of oil paintings to memorialize events and make a political statement was not new; 19th-century examples include John Trumbull’s paintings for the U.S. Capitol and Jacques-Louis David’s The Coronation of Napoleon. The new government proposed a series of paintings, preferably in oil, to commemorate the history of the Communist Party of China, and its triumph in 1949, and it was cancelled in 1951 when not enough paintings were found to be suitable for an exhibition in the planned Museum of the Chinese Revolution. It is now in the National Museum of China in Beijing, where it is on display alongside other works of art by Chinese artists including Ai Weiwei, Zhang Yimou and Liu Shaoqi, among others. The museum did not yet exist and would not open until 1961, but the paintings were commissioned even though the museum was not yet open. The paintings are on display in the museum, as well as a replica of the original, which is in a private collection, and are on loan to the Chinese government from the United States, where they are being displayed in a government-run art museum in Washington, D.C.
They are also on display at the Beijing Museum of Fine Arts, where the exhibition will be held in the spring of 2015. The exhibition will feature works by artists such as Wang Yeqiu, Li Qun, Li Xun and Li Qiang, and will also include a number of works by other Chinese artists, such as Xu Bingzhang, Li Yifan and Li Zhiqun. The works will be on display for the first time in May 2015, when they will be shown in a public exhibition at the National Gallery in Beijing. The opening of the museum is scheduled for May 15, 2015, and the first public exhibition of the paintings will take place in June 2015, with a preview of the works to be held the following day. The first public show of the oil paintings will be the opening of a new museum in Shanghai, which will be open to the public from May 15 to June 15. The second will be a private exhibition in September 2015, in which the artists will be invited to present their works to the government and the public. It will also be held at the Central Academy of Arts and Sciences in Beijing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic. The third will be an exhibition of works that have been commissioned by the government for the Museum of Chinese Revolution, which was opened in 1961.
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