What are the style characteristics of Zhuxian Town Woodblock New Year Pictures?

The woodcut New Year pictures of Zhuxian Town come from the people and spread among the people, which is different from the gentle style of the palace literati paintings of past dynasties. Its lines are bold and unrestrained, the plot is vivid and touching, the composition is full and symmetrical, the image is concise and vivid, the color is rich and strong, it is very decorative and has distinctive local characteristics.

In terms of expression, Zhuxian Town New Year pictures absorbed traditional painting techniques and colorful decorative techniques, and created vivid stories of characters, but they were just right and did not deliberately describe the background scenes of the characters. Zhuxian Town Woodblock New Year Pictures deal with pictures and depict characters in a concise, vivid and exaggerated way. The image-building of gods, especially the head image and exaggerated body proportion, is very infectious. The most prominent feature of Zhuxian Town New Year pictures is that the characters are handsome and handsome, and there is no flattering color.

Zhuxian Town's New Year pictures originated from the folk. Through the performances of artists, they incorporated the aesthetic concept and worship consciousness of national traditional culture, reflecting the farmers' wishes for a better life, such as abundant crops, prosperity and harmony, peace and good luck, and the prosperity of six animals, as well as their thoughts and feelings of strengthening the body to exorcise evil spirits and distinguishing between love and hate.

Zhuxian Town Woodblock New Year Pictures inherited the excellent traditional artistic techniques in ancient China, and formed its own local characteristics: the whole picture is full, compact and rigorous, leaving no blank, distinguishing primary and secondary, highlighting the main body, and showing the decorative interest of uniform and symmetrical patterns. On the screen, the artist also adopted the "scattered perspective method" of Chinese painting, so that everything can be clearly displayed and serve the main body, and the layout of the screen will not make people feel unreasonable.