our initial post should be between 200-250 words. (4 pts)  

Analyze the work and explain its art historical and cultural significance. Explain how the artist negotiated his own idea of art-making and the demands of the society during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76).

Zheng Shengtian et al, Man’s Whole World is Mutable, Seas Become Mulberry Fields: Chairman Mao Inspects the Situation of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Northern, South Central and Eastern China, 1967. 

Hints: In your visual analysis, you may consider these aspects of the work: 1) subject matter; 2) composition; 3) production method; 4) medium; 5) visual inspirations or visual references; 6) platform and context of distribution