Question
This woman successfully lobbied to prevent Kārlis Zāle’s Freedom Monument in Riga from being replaced with a sculpture of Stalin. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this sculptor who showed two 80-foot-tall figures striding triumphantly forward while holding a hammer and sickle in the statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, which now stands in Moscow.
ANSWER: Vera Mukhina (“MOO-kin-uh”)
[10e] Mukhina’s Worker and Kolkhoz Woman was executed in this official artistic style of the Soviet Union. Writers in this style were described as “engineers of the human soul.”
ANSWER: socialist realism [or social realism]
[10m] Tsao Hsing-yuan wrote that student activists during the Tiananmen Square protests rejected the Statue of Liberty as a model for this sculpture, instead basing its facial features on Mukhina’s Kolkhoz Woman.
ANSWER: Goddess of Democracy [or Goddess of Liberty or Spirit of Democracy; or Minchu Nüshen or Minchu Chingshen; or Mínzhǔ Nǚshén or Mínzhǔ Jīngshén] (The sculptor’s name is incorrectly given as Tsao Tsing-yuan in some sources.)
<JG, Painting and Sculpture>
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