What kind of painting is Flower Lion

Flower Lion (Peasant Painting) This is a peasant painting from Ansei, Northern Shaanxi Province.

Flower Lion is a Chinese painting, made by Zhang Zhilan, a peasant painting from Ansei, northern Shaanxi province. This painting shows a colorful mother lion with two young and cute little flower lions, their faces full of happiness and love.

Peasant paintings are both a kind of painting art and a new kind of painting that has matured in recent years, paintings made by farmers themselves and for their own enjoyment.

It has a peculiar style and exaggerated methods, including farmers' self-printed paper horses, door paintings, images of gods, and auspicious pictures drawn on the kangtou, zaotou, house walls and gables, and it has the reputation of Picasso in the East. In recent years, the relevant departments of the state have attached great importance to the development of peasant paintings, and in some places, peasant paintings have been rated as intangible cultural heritage heritage programs.

Painting

It is the art of copying nature by hand on a two-dimensional plane, and in medieval Europe, people often called painting "monkey art". Before the 20th century, the more realistic the imitation, the more skillful the painting, but after the 20th century, with the emergence and development of photography, painting began to shift to the direction of expressing the painter's subjective self.

Painting is a form of capturing, recording, and expressing different creative purposes, and it and its participants are equally numerous. Paintings can be naturalistic and figurative in nature (such as still life or landscapes), photographic painting, abstract, narrative, symbolism, emotional or political.