Archival Note Card | Cultural Revolution | #14

White-knuckled fist grips a tangle of small panicked figures on a red ground.

This is an archival note card from the cultural revolution series, no. 14, titled "fist full of enemies". It is archival paper. Graphic art of the Cultural Revolution generally followed an officially approved style, with heroic figures, strong diagonals and a limited range of bright colors that read clearly at a distance. Portrait-format card with black ink and red wash behind the fist. Tiny figures struggle and dangle beneath it, and red characters stand at the top beside a column of black script. Small text lines fill the bottom edge. It is 7 inches long and 5 high.

The fist is the whole composition, and it knows it.