Tears Flooding the Autumnal Fields | |
Artist: | Chen Danqing |
Year: | 1976 |
Medium: | Oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 164 |
Width Metric: | 235 |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
Museum: | Private collection |
Tears Flooding the Autumnal Fields (also known as Tear Drops On the Harvest Land) is an oil painting completed in 1976 by the Chinese artist Chen Danqing.[1] [2] It depicts Tibetans crying as they listen to the news of Mao Zedong’s death on the radio in harvest of a wheat field.[2]