Qi Zhilong

Zhilong (1962 Inner Mongolia) is a prominent painter who is known for his political pop images, mostly of Chinese women during the Cultural Revolution. His consumer icon series helped gain him international fame. His works are somewhat plain and realistic, but almost sweet representations of pig tailed women from the 1950s and 1960s and consumeristic people in the 1970s and 1980s.

Qi Zhilong (born in 1962, Mongolia). Qi Zhilong’s works, spanning from the 1980s till today, revolve around but one subject matter: women dressed in soldier’s uniforms from the Cultural Revolution’s period. These green uniforms were an emblem of fashion then, but also of ideology, standing for justice, courage, sacrifice and righteousness…

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