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China: Folk Genre Paintings

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System #: BA-AC-0021

ISBN: 7-119-03028-0
ISBN: 7119030280

Author: Xiao Xiaoming

Language: English

Publisher: Foreign Language Press, China

Type: Paperback

Pages: 107 Pages

List price: ~~$28.80~~

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The two hundred or more recently painted art works in this album by peasants, herdsmen, and fishermen of various regions were selected from among ten thousand. It may thus be seen that folk painting is by no means an exotic rarity on the Chinese artistic scene. Over the last two decades, it has undergone a revival throughout the provinces.

China's huge regional diversity of folk paintings is attributable to the folk artists among her diverse ethnic minorities. Apart from Han artists, there are also those of the Manchu, Tibetan, Korean, Hui, Yao, Uygur, Yi, Miao, Tujia, Bai, Hani and Bouyei minorities.

During the 1970s, the vigor, simplicity and typical central Shaanxi flavor of paintings by rural dwellers in Huxian County, Shaanxi Province drew attention to the folk art of this province. Later, the bold yet mystical works in the rich folk-art traditions of rural inhabitants of Ansai, Luochuan and Yijun emerged.

The visual themes of contemporary folk paintings are the customs, habits, folklore and work of China's various ethnic groups. Although artistic styles differ from place to place, they generally have a local focus, reflecting the lives and emotions of the laboring people. Works of artists of a different genre may follow the contemporary Western vogue, departing ever further from images of everyday life. Traditional styles of folk art are also influenced by new aesthetic standards, but while following its own path of creative awareness, contemporary folk art is nonetheless based on China's land and the people that live on it.

What was called ?easant painting?is now ?odern folk painting,?and this useful volume follows the developments in the art in the last 30 years."

The two hundred and more paintings in this album were chosen from about ten thousand folk paintings done in recent years in various parts of China, so it is no exaggeration on my part to claim that they are the best. The aim in compiling them into an album is to give the art collector, connoisseur and general reader an opportunity to peruse the work of peasants, herdsmen, fishermen and housewives, familiar as they may be with the orthodox Chinese tradition, oils and graphic art; to take them into the mountains and wilderness, to a world with a totally different charm and attraction from that of the secluded Palace of Art.

Dimensions: 6.75" x 7.5"
OCE code: 61

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