Who said let a thousand flowers bloom

Let a hundred flowers bloom. It may be that Hu Feng is locked up in his cell, but his spirit still roams the country, and we might still see some more works like his appear. What was it about Hu Feng? He organized a secret group; and that was something he should not have done. If only he had not organized a secret group…. What do a few flowers matter in a land of our size—nine million square kilometers? Let them bloom for people to look at, and perhaps criticize. At first, Zhou told Mao, writers and intellectuals were wary and skeptical of what would be called the Hundred Flowers Movement.

He advised Mao to encourage the central government to help create an exuberant response to the policy, reassuring intellectuals that their criticism was not only welcome but necessary for reform. Soon, writers, lawyers, academics and scientists began speaking out, criticizing party cadres for meddling and obstructing important work. Students began protesting low standards of living, pointing out the hypocrisy of corrupt party members enjoying privileges at the expense of the workers.

Reference T Summary Display caption. In Kiefer spoke about his own ambivalent attitude towards Mao: In the s, in Europe and Germany, Mao was a moral institution. Students were looking to the Little Red Book [which contained quotations from Mao] for solutions … but I was already a bit critical of this. I thought there was a lot of propaganda around Mao I was fascinated, and I admired Mao, but at the same time, I also thought something was wrong. Display caption Kiefer travelled in China in , and some years later made a series of paintings based on photographs taken there.

Gallery label, June Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? You might like Left Right. Anselm Kiefer Lilith —9. Anselm Kiefer Palette Anselm Kiefer Palm Sunday Anselm Kiefer Man under a Pyramid Anselm Kiefer Untitled Anselm Kiefer Johannis Nacht gefallene Bilder.

The secret life of plants Anselm Kiefer German. Not on view. Kiefer used pictures he took on a visit to China in for a series of works that reference Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution.

Kiefer's large-scale photo-collage of a monumental statue of the Chinese leader saluting appears double-exposed with another image of a vast, curved wall of bricks. The heroic statue's gesture echoes Kiefer's early photographs and drawings of himself performing the Sieg Heil, the Nazi salute. Kiefer approaches the legacy of the brutal Chinese Communist regime with the same critical eye he turned on Germany's tortured recent past.

In Mao wrote: "Letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy of promoting the progress of the arts and sciences. Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded. As part of the Met's Open Access policy , you can freely copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes.

Title: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom. Artist: Anselm Kiefer German, born Donaueschingen, Date: