Ge Xiaoguang stands in front of a giant portrait of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong during a interview with Reuters in his working studio located between the Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City in Beijing, June 29, 2011. Reclusive Chinese painter Ge's art has gazed over one of the world's most famous city squares for decades. For 30 years, he has painted the portraits of former paramount leader Mao Zedong that look across Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The giant oil paintings of the "Great Helmsman" have kept watch from the Gate of Heavenly Peace since the Communist Party won the civil war a

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• Dimensions: 1484 x 3451 px | 12.6 x 29.2 cm | 4.9 x 11.5 inches | 300dpi
• Date taken: 30 June 2011
• Photographer: Barry Huang

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Ge Xiaoguang stands in front of a giant portrait of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong during a interview with Reuters in his working studio located between the Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City in Beijing, June 29, 2011. Reclusive Chinese painter Ge's art has gazed over one of the world's most famous city squares for decades. For 30 years, he has painted the portraits of former paramount leader Mao Zedong that look across Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The giant oil paintings of the "Great Helmsman" have kept watch from the Gate of Heavenly Peace since the Communist Party won the civil war and declared a New China on October 1, 1949. To match CHINA-PARTY/MAO Picture taken June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Barry Huang (CHINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY POLITICS)