Song of Sixteen Characters: Poem by Mao Zedong – (Fu Baoshi) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Fu Baoshi

Date: 1958

Size: 34 x 50 cm

Technique: Paper

The speed and motion of soldiers and horses, as well as the flames and smoke swirling into the sky, convey a powerful sense of the urgency of battle. Fu’s image is only loosely based on Mao’s poem: Mountain.The sea collapses and the river boils.Innumerable horses raceInsanely into the peak of battle.