Li Kunwu

[4] Jeffrey Mather of the City University of Hong Kong described Li's father as "the main contributor to the artist's personal development" and "at once a Communist hero and a tyrannical patriarch.

[2] He read a book on how to make political propaganda and began painting criticisms of landowners.

[4] He used his experience in visual arts to make official propaganda for the Communist Party, including images of Mao Zedong.

In 2015 the Michelin Foundation established an exhibit of his works in Clermont, and it did the same the following year in Shanghai.

[9] Ryan Holmberg of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art stated that Li's style was developed from his previous jobs and life, with his work in propaganda, his drawings of landscapes and ethnic people for exhibitions, and his caricatures of people for newspapers giving Li's style "a balance between classical ink painting", a propaganda-style "bombast", "an attention to local detail", and "caricatures".