Object Details
Artist
Suo Tan
Date
2007
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
20 1/2 × 12 × 15 1/2 inches (52 × 30.5 × 39.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of David Raddock, Class of 1963, and Annette Raddock
Object
Number
2017.039.003
Drawing both from his work experience in a ceramic kiln factory in China’s Hebei province, as well(…)
Drawing both from his work experience in a ceramic kiln factory in China’s Hebei province, as well as his training at the Central Technology Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Suo Tan thwarts viewers’ expectations with humor. Here, the artist has taken the ubiquitous portrait of Mao and subverted its solemnity by glazing it as though it were a twelfth- or thirteenth-century ware from the Cizhou kilns, known for high-quality, imaginative folk ceramics.
