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The Art of Propaganda: North Korea's Mansudae Art Studio

This oil painting depicting a go game between a young Korean girl and an older western man is featured in an October 31 ArtNet News report about North Korea's Mansudae Art Studio. Perhaps the world's biggest art factory, "It employs around 4,000 laborers of which under a quarter are artists who mostly graduated from the Pyongyang University of Fine Arts. The studio churns out propaganda for the Kim family leadership, producing everything from trinkets to murals and gigantic Soviet-style monuments." This piece, entitled “Confrontation” is by Kim Hyon Myong. Thanks to David Fruchtenicht for passing this along.