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In 1946 he was the Head of the Art
Department at Huabei United Revolutionary University. In 1949 he was the Vice-Chairman of Chinese Artists' Association under Maoist regime. He also held the titles of Deputy Director, then Director of Chinese Artists' Association. From 1949 through 1957 Feng was the
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On numerous occasions, Jiang Feng was arrested. Shortly after Jiang joined the
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Shanghai Eighteen Art Society Research Center. The group got its name from the year it began forming, 1929- the 18th year of the republic. The group published and spread anti-imperialist
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Academy of Literature and Art in Yan'an. He was made director of the art department the following year. In this particular position, he was in charge of the art factory responsible for producing
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Russian system of art education emphasized drawing from life and from plaster casts of
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Russian system of art education. The Yan'an conception of art education required students to learn
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family. As a teenager, he became involved in left-wing politics, mainly because he worked as a bookkeeper for a railroad company and participated in labor strike activities.
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In 1942 Jiang created, "Studying is Good," which was a mix of nianhua prints and positive
Communist content. It conveyed two children holding up a writing brush and
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