Hu Ming, jeb tikumības nedienas
At school in China during the Cultural Revolution Hu Ming was allowed to draw only Mao Zedong’s portrait. In 1970 she joined the army, where she worked in a hospital as a broadcaster and librarian. In the library she found a book of Michelangelo’s life drawings of human anatomy that was banned at the time as pornographic. Her website says that it changed her life forever; it also says that because women could not ‘display their femininity’ during the Cultural Revolution she ‘did not see shampoo until the mid 1980s, hence the womanliness of her army girls in her painting.’ She then trained as an army nurse, spending much time studying anatomy in the morgue.