The origin of grey painting

Origin of Pratt & Whitney Painting: gaomi city in the southeast of Shandong Province.

First of all, an overview of gray painting.

The so-called ash throwing means burning ash with willow branches, mainly tracing lines, and making multiple copies at a time. Then the artist painted the face and hands on the printed manuscript, colored it, drew gold, crossed it, and finally painted the key parts with varnish.

High-density ash-throwing New Year pictures are mostly painted on fully opened paper. From the perspective of composition, simplicity is better than complexity. In addition to the screen and figure painting, pay attention to the height and fullness of the characters, use less or even omit the background, let the characters occupy the screen space, and form a two-dimensional perspective plane composition.

Second, the origin of gray painting

Gaomi Pratt & Whitney New Year Pictures originated in the early Ming Dynasty and were founded by a Wang Xing family in Gongpomiao Village, Beixiang, Gaomi. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, the king of in-laws temple village began to accept apprentices, first of all, four sons of Zhang in in-laws temple village.

At the end of Qianlong period, some people from Gaomi, Zhaojiaquan, Dujiaguanzhuang and other places came to the in-laws temple to learn from the Zhang brothers, returned to China with skills, and set up workshops and apprentices. During the Jiaqing period, Gaomi Pratt & Whitney New Year pictures began to use the new technology of combining painting and printing.

Cultural characteristics of Pratt & Whitney painting

I. Production characteristics

The production characteristics of lime-soil New Year pictures make it impossible to break away from the traditional manual painting techniques, resulting in the characteristics of long production cycle, exquisite craftsmanship and limited output, which makes lime-soil New Year pictures unable to compete with plate-making and printing New Year pictures in the market. Nowadays, the inheritance of lime-soil New Year pictures in high-density areas has been unsuccessful.

As a unique variety of New Year pictures, it reflects the social culture and customs, and retains the traditional skills of China folk painting, so it is necessary to rescue and excavate it.

Second, the characteristics of painting

"Old Brush Painting" inherits the traditional painting method, and still focuses on painting ink pictures, with elegant painting style. Despite the impact of the new school of painting, he was determined not to change his original intention and made a self-made statement: "Ink screen, ink screen, clear Taiwan. The wife doesn't like it, and the old man flatters. Every seller has his own future.

Third, artistic style.

Ash-throwing New Year pictures are concise and clear, and the pen is natural and unrestrained. His painting style is elegant, elegant and thick. Its painting method replaces ink with color, with bright colors, strong colors, fascinating details, and splashing colors when crazy. Bright colors and strong contrast are deeply loved by people.