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 ; also Romanization of Chinese, romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the List of national founde ...

that hangs at

Tiananmen The Tiananmen (also Tian'anmen (天安门), Tienanmen, T’ien-an Men; ), or the Gate of Heaven-Sent Pacification, is a monumental gate in the city center of Beijing, China, the front gate of the Imperial City of Beijing, located near the ...

Gate in

Tiananmen Square Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square (; 天安门广场; Pinyin: ''Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng''; Wade–Giles: ''Tʻien1-an1-mên2 Kuang3-chʻang3'') is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the eponymous Tiananme ...

Education and training

Ge Xiaoguang graduated from the Fine Arts Department of

Capital Normal University Capital Normal University (首都师范大学, pinyin: ''Shǒudū Shīfàn Dàxué'', or 首师大 for short) is a university in Beijing, China. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University Plan university, identified by the Ministry ...

, 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-sen (; also known by several other names; 12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925)Singtao daily. Saturday edition. 23 October 2010. section A18. Sun Yat-sen Xinhai revolution 100th anniversary edition . was a Chinese politician who serve ...

Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1 ...

and

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...

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/[email protected] Photographs of the yearly rehanging of Mao Zedong's portraitbr>Ge Xiaoguang
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ge, Xiaoguang 1953 births Living people Chinese portrait painters Painters from Beijing Capital Normal University alumni People's Republic of China landscape painters

Education and training

Mao Portrait

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