John S Cheung's One Sun Art Studio Paintings, Sculptures, Art Installations
 

PAINTING SERIES (MODERN HISTORY)
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Modern History - #1,2,3 Modern History - # 4,5,6 Modern History - #7,8,9 Modern History - # 10,11,12 Modern World History - # 13,14,15
Painting-Oil-Modern History - #7,8,9
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Modern History - #7,8,9

This is the 3rd of six panels each panel shows a few paintings about Modern World History since WWII. … From the left, painting #7 shows China's Chairman Mao Zedong at Beijing in 1949 declaring the birth of the People's Republic of China. ... Painting #8 shows the contrasting figures of Earl Mountbatten representing the British crown and Mahatma Gandhi of India at their final Indian independence talk in 1947. ... Painting #9 shows the 1975 'Fall of Saigon', showing the traumatic exit of many S Vietnam elite from Saigon on top of an US embassy building. It depicts the end of the long bloody traumatic US Vietnam War.

24"H x 48"W
 
 
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