Red Guards And Cultural Revolution

Red Guards are organizations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. They are generally divided into two kinds, one is the various civil organizations, including workers, peasants, military academies and practitioners, and practitioners of literary and artistic organizations. The other one is Refers to the young students in universities and secondary schools formed by the spontaneous formation of student groups. Red Guards is not a real national army, but a special group of student organizations. It is an important force that impact the party and government organs, and creating the social unrest during Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards has played a negative role in fueling the flames in the development of Cultural Revolutio.
The art of the Cultural
Revolution in the use of close-up screen, prominent heroes, making the characters lose the fresh individuality. During this period, all the artists had a common goal of painting, which is paint "posters" for the new Chinese government. The artistic individuality disappeared into a collective style, creating a devout art world.
These main principles of creation those art work are "three prominent", which first prominent the positive characters from all the characters; then prominent the main hero in the positive characters, finally prominent the most important main hero central figure. On the basis of "Three Prominent", the pattern of "Red, High and Big" appeared, which embodied the theme of red, and it was popular, easy to understand and loved. Reflected the thought of Mao Zedong's art serving the workers, peasants and soldiers. It not only created the China's visual image, but also created the language system of the Cultural Revolution.