China Folk Artists Association Ansai Peasant Painting

Ansai modern folk painting is a new folk art form developed on the basis of paper-cutting, embroidery, cloth toys, kang painting and other folk art forms in the late 1970s. It is an artistic form of China's traditional cultural thinking mode, modeling, techniques, colors and modern painting consciousness. Ansai peasant paintings pay attention to the expression of artistic conception. It not only emphasizes composition, perspective, luminosity, proportion of characters, etc. Instead, reflect your feelings first. It skillfully combines the beauty of reality with the beauty of ideal, with peculiar conception, bold exaggeration, cheerful mood and vivid expression. The painting color is very strong, bright, harmonious and vivid, with healthy, simple and high-spirited tone and artistic conception, rich content and lofty artistic conception. Composition is based on emotion, meaning and beauty, abstract, exaggerated, concise and romantic. Most of the works are hard and soft, vigorous and powerful, rough and delicate, changeable, simple and calm without exaggeration, fresh and colorful without losing elegance. Foreign experts praised China's peasant paintings as more expressive than Picasso's.

198 1 year, 54 Ansai peasant paintings were exhibited in China Art Museum. 1982, seven paintings of Ansai farmers were exhibited in the French independent salon. 1985, 10 works were exhibited in France. People's Pictorial and People's Daily all have special pages to introduce Ansai peasant paintings. In the 1988 National Peasant Painting and Calligraphy Grand Prix, Xue won the first prize, Gao Jin 'ai won the second prize, and Bai Fenglan's Hairy Man, Cao Dianxiang's Zodiac and Zhang's Hairy Monkey Smoking won the third prize. 1992, Li Fuai's Spring Sowing and Chang's Cattle won the first prize of the National Cultural Fair, and his Homesickness and Silkworm Breeding won the second prize. At the 1993 China Folk Arts and Crafts Exhibition, works such as Niu, Niu Tau by Xue and Dragon Boat Festival won prizes. Gao Jin 'ai was awarded the title of "Farmer Artist" by Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture, and was elected as the vice chairman of Shaanxi Peasant Painting Association. Ma Guoyu, a 2 1 year-old Ansai girl, was admitted as a member of China Farmers' Painting and Calligraphy Research Association and was recorded as the youngest folk artist.