Mandarin Chinese for Beginners by Yi Ren

Author:Yi Ren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Can you believe that the fastest growing segment of the art market in China is peasants’ paintings, also known as farmers’ paintings? Since 1950, the peasants and farmers of China have been creating these works of art. It began when Mao Zedong encouraged propaganda paintings to be done on public buildings in villages, to glorify and promote farming. During the past thirty years or so, peasants’ paintings have became more and more popular, and collectible, across the country.

The first attraction for most people is the paintings’ extraordinarily rich and vibrantly contrasted colors. Compared with other Chinese paintings, peasants’ paintings are more daily-life-related, richer in colors, and easier to understand. Most of the painters have to work outdoors during the day, so they paint and draw only in the evenings. Their subjects include their children going to school and playing, women’s housework and cooking, men’s work on the farm, and playing chess. Their villages and houses, mountains and rivers, holiday activities, animals, and crop harvests are featured too. These paintings are not only descriptions of the farmers’ daily lives but also expressions of their interior lives and feelings.

There are two famous branches of peasants’ paintings. One is from 金山 Jīn Shān county, and another is from 户县 Hù Xiàn county. 金山 Jīn Shān is about two hours from Shanghai by car, and 户县 Hù Xiàn is in the rural area near the historic city of Xian.

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