Hundred Flowers Campaign

(noun)

A period in 1956 in the People's Republic of China during which the Communist Party of China encouraged its citizens to openly express their opinions of the communist regime.

Related Terms

  • Cultural Revolution
  • New Culture Movement

Examples of Hundred Flowers Campaign in the following topics:

  • Modern Chinese Painting

    • His best known works depict flowers and small animals.
    • This regimen was considerably relaxed in 1953 and during the Hundred Flowers Campaign of 1956–57.
    • The Hundred Flowers Campaign was a period in the People's Republic of China during which the Communist Party of China encouraged its citizens to openly express their opinions of the communist regime.
    • Following this campaign, traditional Chinese painting experienced a significant revival.
    • Propaganda art in posters was used as a campaigning tool and mass communication device, produced in large number and widely disseminated.
  • Figure

    • Captured in a realistic fashion, as they-were-seen by the artists, the portrayal of these ordinary subjects represents one of the main breaks with the traditional canon of painting campaigned by the rebellious impressionists.
    • She defiantly looks out as her servant offers flowers from one of her male suitors.
  • French Architecture in the Baroque Period: Versailles

    • Initially a small hunting lodge built by his father, Louis XIV transformed Versailles with four intensive building campaigns over his reign.
    • This style is characterized by its meticulously manicured lawns, parterres of flowers, numerous fountains, and sculptures.
  • Art and Architecture of the Southwest Cultures

    • For hundreds of years, the Pueblo created utilitarian grayware and black-on-white pottery, incorporating reds and oranges toward the end of their era in the 13th century.
    • Other coloring agents include corn meal, flower pollen, or powdered roots and bark.
  • Architecture and Art in the Unified Silla Period

    • The grotto is shaped by hundreds of different granite stones; there was no mortar used and the structure was held together instead by stone rivets.
    • The ceiling of the grotto is decorated with half moons, and the top is decorated with a lotus flower.
  • Architecture of the New Kingdom

    • Six hundred black granite statues were found in the courtyard to her temple, possibly the oldest portion of the site.
    • Later, Ramses moved the capital of his kingdom from Thebes to the newly established city of Pi-Ramses, which he used as a main base for his campaigns.
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