{"id":574,"date":"1996-09-28T22:28:37","date_gmt":"1996-09-29T02:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=574"},"modified":"2012-02-26T21:49:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T01:49:46","slug":"flag-of-the-agricultural-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/flag-of-the-agricultural-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag of the Agricultural Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flag_agricultural_print.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Flag of the Agricultural Revolution\" width=\"750\" height=\"543\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flag_agricultural_print.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flag_agricultural_print-590x427.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flag_agricultural_print-700x507.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/flag_agricultural_print-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n1996<br \/>\nwoodcut on Ysai wood grain paper, printed by Vinalhaven Press<br \/>\n22 x 30 inches<br \/>\nedition of 30<\/p>\n<p>The hard-liners of the Chinese political establishment often refer to banned cultural works as &#8220;poisonous weeds.&#8221; The student activists of the tragic Tiananmen Democracy movement of 1989 were influenced by such cultural musings.<\/p>\n<p>The red ground and yellow images are the same color and proportions as the Chinese Communist flag. This flag is &#8220;re-starred&#8221; with silhouettes of plant forms derived from ancient woodcuts of the venerated Chinese materia medica. This response reminds officials that plants associated with toxic properties are also part of a long history of healing and economic\/political struggle. The creed of constant revolution that is much admired may need the &#8220;weeds&#8221; to really get to the next step. This artwork is homage to the historic student and worker pro-democracy movement commonly viewed as an attempt to heal inequalities in Chinese society. <\/p>\n<p>Starting from the left going clockwise the plants are: <\/p>\n<p>Strychnos nux-vomica, Strychnine plant (Longaniaceae)<br \/>\nPapaver somniferum L., Opium Poppy (Papaveraceae)<br \/>\nLycoris radiata, (Amarylliadaceae)<br \/>\nCroton tiglium L., (Euphorbiaceae)<br \/>\nParis polyphylla, (Liliaceae)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1996 woodcut on Ysai wood grain paper, printed by Vinalhaven Press 22 x 30 inches edition of 30 The hard-liners of the Chinese political establishment often refer to banned cultural works as &#8220;poisonous weeds.&#8221; The student activists of the tragic Tiananmen Democracy movement of 1989 were influenced by such cultural musings. The red ground and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33,16,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2d","category-politics","category-prints","category-themes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/2585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}