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Hung Liu | |||
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1948 in Changchun, China Lives and works in Oakland, CA |
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| Mu Nu (Mother and Daughter), 1997 | ||||
| oil
paint on canvas 80 x 140 inches, diptych Purchased with funds from the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art 1997.22a–b |
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| Like many of her other paintings,
Hung Liu bases Mu Nu on an archival Chinese photograph, probably
from the late 19th or early 20th century. The mother and daughter labor
together, pulling an unseen boat up a river. During Chairman Mao’s
Cultural Revolution, Hung Liu was sent to the country to work in the fields
for “reeducation.” |