Kunming, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese peasant painting: artistic flowers "planted" in the countryside.
Reporter Miao Chao.
"Spring Cattle Ploughing" depicts a spring picture of a family of four plowing a pear orchard; "Spring Scenery of Laoyu River" depicts nine Dianchi golden-threaded catfish, which means that it is long and more than every year; "Dai Women's Bracken Picking Picture" uses pink as the main color, which does not seem to be the color ...... used by an old man
These Chinese peasant paintings, which do not seek to be realistic, whose composition is not constrained by the principle of perspective, are unrestrained and clumsy, and are selected by the international coffee brand Starbucks to be printed on coffee paper cups in the spring of "the law is rejuvenated, and Vientiane is renewed". On the 5th, some of the peasant painters of the above works held a sharing meeting in Kunming, Yunnan Province, and were interviewed by reporters.
Pictured here are peasant painters showing their drawings printed on Starbucks coffee paper cups. (*From ***.)
Left-hand hoe, right-hand brush. Zhuo Liping, a 52-year-old peasant painter, lives in Chenggong Xiaoying Village, Kunming, surrounded by thousands of acres of pear orchards. Whenever the spring breeze blows, the pear trees are covered with white flowers, and farmers plow the fields under the trees to sow broad beans and corn. Her "Spring Cattle Ploughing Picture" originated from the memories of spring ploughing more than 20 years ago, "At that time, there was a fat cow, just a gentle shout, the cow began to work, the good human dog accompanied by the side, the hard-working husband farmed, the young children frolicked, and the blooming pear blossoms were as soft and ...... as snow."”
Peasant painting is one of the unique types of painting in China, which began with the paper horses, door paintings, and statues of gods printed by the peasants, as well as auspicious pictures painted on the kang, stove, gables and eaves of houses, and also from the patterns drawn for clothing embroidery.
Zhuo Liping's painting skills began with her grandmother, who often embroidered aprons and embroidered shoes, and painted flowers, birds, insects and fish patterns on the fabric before embroidery. In fact, this is a skill that most rural women must master. ”
In the fifties and sixties of the last century, peasant painting towns such as Yijun in Shaanxi, Xiaoxian in Anhui, Yongfeng in Jiangxi, and Jinshan in Shanghai were gradually formed. Later, people living in rural areas, pastoral areas, and fishing islands were encouraged and supported in various parts of China to create peasant paintings, recording their feelings about the times in their own way.
The picture shows peasant painters introducing their paintings to the audience. (*From ***.)
Yunnan Stone Forest, Guandu, Maguan, Chenggong and other places have successively hired professional painters to set up training courses to teach professional skills to farmers who love painting. Since 1993, the Chenggong Cultural Center has been offering training courses, and "the pear garden painting I created in the training class won the first prize in the Chenggong Painting Competition that year. Zhuo Liping was happy for a whole year. Since then, the farm has been busy working and painting in the slack.
That first prize also brought her a bonus of 50 yuan (RMB, the same below), "1 yuan that year was enough to buy 1 kilogram of pork." Over the years, Zhuo Liping has created nearly 100 paintings, and the market price has risen from 100 yuan to 6,000 yuan today. But she never counts the total income from selling paintings, "I get happiness from it, and I also make the viewers happy, so I am content." "People like peasant paintings, and it is precisely because of the natural beauty revealed in them that the viewer unconsciously feels the beautiful life in the paintings, and the body and mind are happy.
One side of the water and soil to support the other side of the people", the regional environment, climate, customs and folklore are different from place to place, and the expression techniques of peasant paintings are also different. Xi Faxian, the author of "Dai Women's Bracken Picking Map", is a Dai from Tengchong, Yunnan Province, and he told reporters that everything recovers in spring, but for Tengchong, it is a relatively poor season. "At this time, the vegetables have just been planted, and the mushrooms and fruits are not yet ripe. On the contrary, the wild vegetables and bracken in the mountains are full of life. ”
In the past, every spring, Tengchong men, women and children would go to the mountains in groups to dig and pick bracken, which is their collective memory of spring. Picking bracken is a tiring job, but the old Xi Faxian chose pink as the main color of his paintings. He explained that there is a proverb in the countryside that "people coax the ground, and the ground coaxes the belly". "Pink is a happy color, and I hope to use pink to express and convey the joy and happiness of spring to everyone." ”
Throughout the peasant paintings, most of them use labor as the theme, and they are full of the energy and attitude of Chinese peasants: happiness in exchange for sweat is valuable.
Luo Jiang, director of the China Artists Association and deputy director of the National Art Committee of the China Artists Association, said that the peasant painters vividly recorded the social and historical changes with simple painting language, red and purple colors, concise and bright style, and profound themes. This artistic flower, which was "planted" from the countryside, has now become an important part of Chinese folk folk art. (End) (Original title: Chinese Peasant Painting: Artistic Flowers "Grown" in the Countryside).