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Friday, May 24, 2019

New Work by Troy Davis: "Xi Jinping Doesn't Want You To See This: Détournement of Early Spring"

Troy Davis writes:


Xi Jinping Doesn't Want You To See This: Détournement of Early Spring
I proudly announce a new work titled Xi Jinping Doesn't Want You To See This: Détournement of Early Spring. Recently, I heard Rob Schmitz's report on NPR about a controversial kitschy oil painting titled Early Spring that the Chinese regime suppressed. The painting is sterile propaganda that attempts to rewrite history by erasing a Communist Party official (Hua Guofeng) who fell out of favor and replacing him with Xi Jinping's father (who in the painting resembles his son more than he actually did). 


Xi Jinping Doesn't Want You To See This: Détournement of Early Spring
For some reason, the painting was suppressed by the regime so I created a new artwork by mashing up Early Spring with my own work Hashtag: TankManRocks. I figured that if the party hacks in Bejing hated the original work, they would be even more cheesed off if I added TankMan of Tiananmen Square and the #TankManRocks meme.  

In the unaltered Early Spring, Xi Jinping's father Xi Zhongxun showing Communist Party officials a map of Shenzhen, a small fishing village that rapidly became a megapolis. 
early spring Xi Zhongxun

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