Revolutionary Art in Beijing

• Introduction
• Great Hall
• Heavenly Peace
• Mao's Mausoleum
• Monuments
• National Museum
• People's Heroes
• Railway Station
• Stone Column
• Zhengyangmen
• Chang'an Avenue
• 1989 Protests

There are a number of monuments to the communist revolution situated around the Mao Zedong Mausoleum (Chairman Mao Memorial Hall) in Tiananmen Square.  These monuments are typical of communist era art which typically depict committed revolutionaries, contented workers and a harmonious socialist society.

Revolutionary Art in Beijing

Although revolutionary art (i.e. monuments, statues, murals, paintings, banners) was once widely displayed throughout Beijing, it has largely disappeared as China focuses more on its future rather than on its turbulent past.