The Literature and Arts Black Line's crowd of clowns

文艺黑线人物群丑图
Wenyi heixian renwuqun choutu
The Literature and Arts Black Line's crowd of clowns
ca. 1967
Publisher unknown
78x55 cm.
BG E17/76

Group caricature of a large number of politicians, writers, actors and other artists associated with the “Black Line” in arts. Top center is Liu Shaoqi, right behind him Deng Xiaoping. On the right, just above the ballerina, is the artist Zhang Leping (张乐平) with his most famous cartoon figure San Mao (三毛). In the lower right the Russian writer Sholokhov, wearing a captain hat with a $ dollar sign.