Mao (series)
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Mao (series) is a famous set of pop art portraits by Andy Warhol depicting Chinese leader Mao Zedong in bold, repeated, and color-varied images that critique politics and mass media.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
art series
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painting series → |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
iconic representation of Mao Zedong in Western art
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key example of political pop art → |
| artMovement |
Pop Art movement
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| associatedWith |
American consumer culture
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Cold War cultural politics → image commodification → |
| basedOn |
official portrait of Mao Zedong
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| creator |
Andy Warhol
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| critiques |
celebrity culture
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cult of personality → mass media culture → political propaganda → |
| depicts |
Mao Zedong
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| genre |
pop art
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| hasCharacteristic |
color variation
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repeated imagery → screen-printed appearance → |
| hasMotif |
overlayed colors
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political leader as pop icon → repetition → |
| hasPart |
individual Mao portraits
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| hasTitle |
Mao
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| influencedBy |
Cultural Revolution imagery
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mass-produced political posters → |
| languageOfTitle |
English
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| mainSubject |
Chinese politics
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mass media → political iconography → |
| medium |
acrylic on canvas
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silkscreen print → |
| movementContext |
post-1960s American art
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| notableWorkOf |
Andy Warhol
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| portraysAs |
celebrity figure
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mass-media icon → |
| theme |
ideology and consumption
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mass reproduction of images → power and imagery → |
| usesColor |
bold colors
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highly saturated colors → |
| visualStyle |
flat areas of color
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graphic simplification → photographic source image → |
Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Andy Warhol
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notableWork |