What are the characteristics of the four New Year pictures?

The composition of Mianzhu New Year pictures emphasizes symmetry, integrity, balance, fullness and clear priorities. The contrast method is used in color, and the color is simple, gorgeous and strong, which constitutes a bright red and warm artistic effect; The lines pay attention to the combination of rigidity and softness, and the washing and training are smooth, dense and rhythmic; Exaggerated, deformed, symbolic and moral shapes have humorous and lively effects.

Taohuawu New Year pictures are printed with coloring and color overprinting, with symmetrical and full composition, exquisite line carving and gorgeous colors. It is called "Gusu Edition" by folk painting circles.

The characteristics of Yangliuqing New Year pictures are: the combination of woodcut watermark and hand-drawing retains the techniques of folk painting and is influenced by the Qing Dynasty Painting Academy; Most of them are based on old dramas, beautiful women and fat babies. Full composition, neat lines, bright colors, full face powder and gold, rich decoration.

Yangjiabu New Year pictures have a wide range of genres, rich imagination, reuse of primary colors, rough lines and simple style.

Although New Year pictures contain rich traditional culture and reflect the national spirit of the Chinese nation, the development situation of New Year pictures is not optimistic. With the improvement of people's living standards, the increase of cultural demand, the change of aesthetic perspective, the change of lifestyle and the influence of western cultural trends, a large part of China's traditional culture has been impacted, and New Year pictures are no exception.

Nowadays, New Year pictures are largely regarded as cultural representations of backwardness and feudalism in the old days. New Year pictures are gradually isolated from people's lives, and the New Year pictures industry is depressed and bleak, and it is gradually abandoned silently because it is difficult to combine with high-tech industries.

These pictures are rich in themes, simple and lovely, exquisite and elegant, rough and unrestrained, elegant and graceful, showing the profoundness of China traditional folk culture. The collection value of New Year pictures is relatively high. Because of its scarce stock and high artistic content, it has attracted the unanimous attention of collectors at home and abroad. The longer the printing time of New Year pictures, the more difficult it is to collect and the higher the investment value. In recent and contemporary New Year pictures, it is necessary to choose painters who are well-known in the society and whose circulation or survival is relatively small.