Ge Xiaoguang (; born 1953 in Beijing), is a Chinese artist best known for painting the massive 6 x 4.6-meter portrait of

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; traditionally Romanization of Chinese, romanised as Mao Tse-tung. (26December 18939September 1976) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in ...

that hangs at

Tiananmen The Tiananmen , also Tian'anmen, is the entrance gate of the Forbidden City imperial palace complex and Imperial City in the center of Beijing, China. It is widely used as a national symbol. First built in 1420 during the Ming dynasty, Ti ...

Gate in

Tiananmen Square Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square () is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen ("''Gate of Heavenly Peace''") located to its north, which separates it from the Forbidden City. The square contains th ...

Education and training

Ge Xiaoguang graduated from the Fine Arts Department of

Capital Normal University Capital Normal University (CNU; 首都师范大学) is a municipal public university in Beijing, People's Republic of China, China. It is affiliated with the City of Beijing and co-funded by the Beijing Municipal People's Government and the M ...

, and in 1971, was employed by Beijing Fine Arts Company (renamed Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group in 1997) where he began to study large-scale portrait painting from Wang Guodong. In 1971, Ge also became responsible for painting gigantic portraits of

Sun Yat-sen Sun Yat-senUsually known as Sun Zhongshan () in Chinese; also known by Names of Sun Yat-sen, several other names. (; 12 November 186612 March 1925) was a Chinese physician, revolutionary, statesman, and political philosopher who founded the Republ ...

Karl Marx Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet '' The Communist Manifesto'' (written with Friedrich Engels) ...

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...

and

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...

for display in the

Mao Portrait

In 1976, the year of

's death, Wang Guodong retired and Ge Xiaoguang took his place in 1977 as the author of Mao's portrait at

Gate, which must be re-painted and re-hung yearly due to the effects of weather and air pollution. It is a job that Ge Xiaoguang continues to this day in a studio located near

. He is also an artist of landscape paintings.

References

External links

Four Painters Tell Their Stories of Painting Leaders' Portraits
* ttp://english1.cri.cn/2008/2004-9-28/96@155519.htm Photographs of the yearly rehanging of Mao Zedong's portrait
Ge Xiaoguang
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ge, Xiaoguang 1953 births Living people Chinese portrait painters Painters from Beijing Capital Normal University alumni 21st-century Chinese painters Chinese landscape painters

Education and training

Mao Portrait

See also

References

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