Struggle《斗争》
Born in Guangdong province and a graduate of the Municipal Guangzhou Art School, Li was a leading figure in the New Woodcut Movement. The movement employed woodblock technology to denounce imperialist aggression and depict the suffering of China’s working poor. First used by the League of Left-Wing Writers and other cultural reformers in the 1930s, these techniques were soon adopted by the Communists to produce cheap and effective agitational propaganda under conditions of material scarcity.
李桦出生于广东省，是广州市艺术学校的毕业生，同时也是新木刻运动的领军人物。该运动以木刻技术为媒介，强烈谴责帝国主义的侵略，同时生动再现了中国工人阶级与贫苦民众的生活困境。20世纪30年代，左翼作家联盟以及其他文化改革者率先采用木刻技术作为表达工具，随后，这一方法也被共产主义者广泛应用。在物资极度匮乏的年代，他们创作出大量廉价却极具宣传效果的木刻版画.