Le rouge et le noir

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I imagine this painting (located at the entrance of the arts and design building of Nanchang university) as a backdrop for a type a personality portrait, the beholder, entranced by the protruding jaw and the scowling brows, unaware of the suffering of Stendhal's Julien Sorel, whose colorful decline epitomizes Chinese national colors.

Despite the Communist emblems in red and gold, the traditional colors seem to be novelistic: strong ink on a bloody background.