Archival Note Card | Cultural Revolution | #4

Figure in a red-streaked sky skewers a pile of machinery with a long bayonet.

This archival note card from the cultural revolution series, no. 4, titled "the bayonet skewer". It is archival paper. Propaganda posters and prints from China's Cultural Revolution, generally dated from 1966 to 1976, used bold flat color and slogans to carry political messages. Portrait card with a white and orange backdrop and black ink drawing. A broad-shouldered soldier thrusts a rifle downward onto a gear-shaped heap of rubble. Bold black characters run across the bottom. It is 7 inches long and 5 high.

Action poster, drawn with an iron hand.