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Murals (壁画)

Many propaganda images were produced by cultural workers to be experienced on public walls, either as murals or blackboard paintings. In villages and communes, mural and wall images were key visual forms for conveying ideology, popular knowledge, and political campaigns, but peasants also participated in making propaganda as mass art. During the Great Leap Forward, peasants were mobilized through the mass mural campaign in order to demonstrate the creative revolution in the countryside. In order to understand how these images became so pervasive in message and style, this entry describes the production, themes, and major concepts behind wall art.

KEYWORDS

• Great Leap Forward
• Revolutionary Art and Culture
• Countryside
• Mass Mobilisation
• Science and Technology
• Five-year Plan
• Propaganda
• Mass Campaigns
• Collectivisation
• Cultural Work
• City