Struggle Session

A struggle session was a form of public humiliation used by the Communist Party of Mao. When the struggle session began, the Red Guard used Labor camps, public humiliation, remainder of buildings or objects and corporal punishment to criticize the peoples who opposed to praise the great of Chairman Mao and rejected to publicize Maoism. And their targets were intellectuals, landowners and mechanics. For example, Ye qianyu was noteworthy in Traditional Chinese painting. During the war, he led a group of artists to introduce in the anti-Japanese propaganda of the Allied. So he was labeled U. S. mperialism spies by Red Guard. He is not only to simulate the corporal punishment, but also to participate in the labor camp. Therefore, there were two different tendencies of artist when the struggle session began, Political fanaticism class and CreativeUndergroundClass. For the Political fanaticism class, they responded to the call off of Chairman Mao, followed by the Central ethnical Rev olution combat deployment and the creation of work of art. Most of their works contained the elements about praise of the great achievements of the Cultural Revolution and Demonize enemy which means Capitalist roaders. practise Chairman Mao and advance in the great storms and wave, printed by Shen Yao Iraq. It was one of the most famous works in Cultural Revolution. It means the people in the revolution was irresistible and didnt appalled of anything if they followed Chairman Mao. For the CreativeUndergroundClass, most of the works was not related to the expression of the political intentions of the Cultural Revolution. The artist usually used landscapestoexpress their emotion. Huang Qiutuan and Shi Lu was the representative of this painter.