Tears Flooding the Autumnal Fields

Tears Flooding the Autumnal Fields
Artist Chen Danqing
Year 1976
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 164 cm × 235 cm (65 in × 93 in)[1]
Location Private collection

Tears Flooding the Autumnal Fields (also known as Tear Drops On the Harvest Land) is an oil painting completed in 1976 by the Chinese artist Chen Danqing.[1][2] It depicts Tibetans crying as they listen to the news of Mao Zedong’s death on the radio in harvest of a wheat field.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Tears Flooding the Autumnal Fields". The Huntington Archive. Ohio State University. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 Button, Clicking This (March 19, 1998). "A China spectacular". The Economist. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
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