China News Service, Jiaxing, October 26 (Reporter Shi Zinan) A group of farmers without professional learning, with their hobbies and life experience, created a gouache painting that reflects modern rural life and is rich in rustic flavor.
Some people call it "farmer paintings", while others call it "modern folk paintings".
Zhuo Liping, a farmer from Majinpu Township, Chenggong District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, has been fascinated by farmer painting since she participated in the farmer painting training course held in 1993.
A few years ago, she took her works to an international conference. After seeing the paintings, the foreign guests who participated in the conference praised the Chinese farmers for their power.
Citizens are visiting the Farmers Painting Exhibition Photo by Shi Zinan
"Now the lives of Chinese farmers are getting better and better. I hope to truly express our country life and customs through painting." Zhuo Liping said, influenced by her, her son chose to major in Chinese painting at university. The 3-year-old grand-nephew and daughter also paint with a paintbrush every day.
On the 26th, Zhuo Liping and her companions came to the farmer painting town of Youchegang, Xiuzhou District, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province to participate in the "Ban Xiaokang·Celebrate the Hundred Years-Invitation Exhibition of Painting Works of Chinese Farmer Painting Town". Representatives and cultural experts from 17 farmer painting towns including, Jilin, etc., jointly seek the development of farmer painting.
Xiuzhou District, where the exhibition was held, has successively won honors such as "Hometown of Modern Chinese Folk Painting and Painting" and "Hometown of Chinese Folk Culture and Art" since 1983.
In more than 30 years, Xiuzhou farmers have gone abroad for several times, becoming envoys of foreign exchanges and stunning the world.
"The competition between cities in the future is not only a competition of economy, but also a competition of culture." In the view of Ma Yuhua, vice chairman of the Jiaxing CPPCC and curator of the Jiaxing Municipal Museum of Literature and History, peasant paintings are rooted in Jiaxing’s modern folk art In the city’s rich cultural soil and excellent cultural traditions.
The holding of the invitational exhibition of paintings in the small town of Chinese farmer paintings will further highlight Xiuzhou’s unique cultural impression, cultural form and cultural charm, and play an important role in the protection of intangible cultural heritage and the inheritance, prosperity and development of Chinese farmer paintings. .
In the context of cultural and tourism integration, how to better develop farmers' paintings from the folks has become an important topic in the future.
"Xiuzhou Farmer Painting is like a big cake hanging around the neck, it is a huge IP in Jiaxing and Xiuzhou, and it is one of the most attractive cultural tourism resources in Xiuzhou in the new era." In Zhejiang Vocational and Technical College of Tourism According to Xu Yunsong, the deputy dean, Xiuzhou's peasant paintings can already be made into an industry.
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Xu Yunsong said that in order to make farmers' painting go further, deeper, and wider, only continuous inheritance, innovation and integration are needed. “We must divert, realize, and innovate across borders, and let painting become a working method for farmers and a whole A tourism format."
Xu Yunsong's ideas coincide with Wang Qiquan, a professor at the China Academy of Art.
Peasant Painting Exhibition Provided by Xiuzhou District Media Center
Wang Qiquan believes that, from the point of view of creation, Chinese peasant paintings have reached a considerable amount in terms of individuality, artistic level and participation.
In this context, it is worth discussing how farmers' paintings integrate into life, into tourism, and to market circulation.
"For farmer paintings to go to the market, it is necessary to further improve the quality of the creative team, create scenes and atmosphere. If targeted creation of themes that adapt to the aesthetics of modern people, build upgraded versions of intangible cultural heritage towns, etc., truly achieve'traditional elements, modern The expression'." Wang Qiquan said.
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