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Chinese history as the "Black Decade", when artists were severely persecuted and silenced. Although her official education was largely put on pause during this decade, her experiences of this rural landscape inspired her artwork for the rest of her career. Her depictions of Shanxi and its peasant residents were often calm, idyllic, and whimsical, offering a more intimate perspective on peasant life that differed from the energetic and devoted workers of government propaganda images from that era.
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Cultural Revolution in 1966. Due to her family's social status, Nie was summoned to be a part of a youth rustication campaign in Shanxi. She remained there for over a decade, a
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European artists like Camille Pissaro, Vincent van Gogh, and Jean-Francois Millet. In this period of her work, Nie fused visual concepts of realism and modernism, and experimented with a bold color palette that differed
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