Viewed the exhibition of 1900s Chinese art at the Ashmolean earlier, some tremendous skills being displayed in the freehand brush work but near hilarious totalitarian exhibitionism of the woodblocks made me cringe, too many joyous faces sweating away in the sunshine of communist love. But then this is the nature of promotional graphic art, always subservient to the patron or client regardless of what political system it's designed for.
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