The main characteristics of Ansai peasant paintings

Ansai folk painting pays attention to decoration, color effect and strong impression, and forms its own unique style.

1, Ansai peasant painters first pay attention to expressing artistic conception and expression techniques. Generally, I don't pay much attention to the proportion of characters, and I don't know much about the principle of perspective. First, I make a fuss about artistic conception and expression. 2. Ansai folk painting combines reality and ideal perfectly.

3. Ansai folk paintings are bold, bright, harmonious and vivid.

4. Ansai folk paintings are very bold in composition, with emotion, meaning, beauty, abstraction, exaggeration, conciseness and romance as the mainstay.

5. The overall tone and artistic conception of Ansai people's paintings are healthy, simple and high-spirited. 1, sketchpad: used to fix drawing paper, and the size can be large or small.

2. Brush: According to needs, it can be divided into ordinary brush (used for large pieces of color) and Gou Xianbi (used for scribing).

3. drawing paper: Usually gouache paper.

4. Various pigments: generally gouache pigments. Ansai folk painting and northern Shaanxi regional culture come down in one continuous line, with profound natural, historical, social and cultural background. Ansai folk painting is influenced by the special regional culture of northern Shaanxi, including the religious culture and folk culture of the Han nationality in northern Shaanxi, as well as the mass culture of Ansai waist drum and Xintianyou. Ansai, located in the north of Yan 'an, is an ancient military place, named after the meaning of "settling the frontier fortress". As early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, five cities were built in Luziguan to guard the frontier fortress. The words "Luziguan, Luziguan, the wind and the water are rustling, and Andrew's strong men control the northern vassal" have been circulated in the local area so far. Therefore, Ansai folk painting has obviously integrated into the rough and bold momentum formed under this special historical condition and special region, which is related to the influence of China culture and the infiltration of Saibei culture. Ansai people have lived between endless hills and valleys for generations, and the conflict between ideal and reality forced them to survive, which stimulated the spiritual tension of life itself and created the qualities of simplicity, generosity, tenacity and creativity.

The rough and concise lines, strong humorous colors, magnificent and vigorous images, lofty and wonderful artistic conception, arbitrary brushstrokes and colors of Ansai peasant paintings all bear this spiritual quality. Since Ansai folk painting is rooted in the fertile soil of ancient Han traditional culture, its integration with the new culture concept of the new era will inevitably transplant the simple and pure character of this land, and at the same time, it will permeate the spirit of the new culture. With their unique vision and skills, folk artists observe the rich life and changes in the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi from many angles.

On the other hand, Ansai is located in a remote county in northern Shaanxi, with inconvenient transportation and blocked information. Today's Ansai, on the one hand, is economically backward, on the other hand, it locks in the ancient inheritance of folk art. According to the excavation of cultural relics, it is not a culturally backward area in history. On the contrary, the cultural accumulation here is very rich. It was once one of the cradles of China civilization. As early as the Neolithic culture, our ancient ancestors lived here. According to the data recorded in 1987 cultural census, there are 330 cultural relics and 178 ancient cultural sites in Ansai. Among them, Yangshao cultural site 12, Longshan cultural site 160. The concentration of ancient cultural sites shows that the natural conditions in this area are suitable for the life and development of ancestors at that time.