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What are the characteristics of peasant paintings and New Year paintings

Peasant paintings: paintings of peasants, also including fishermen and other laborers. In content, it mainly expresses farmers' own life and thoughts and feelings. In form, it is free and casual, often borrowing from folk art, such as paper-cutting, embroidery, shadow and other modeling methods, and there is no established frame in the painting method, which does not seek for resemblance and perspective, and in general, it presents a warm, bright, simple, and childish style of art.

New Year's paintings: a larger art category in Chinese folk art, which gradually developed from the early nature, worship and belief in gods and goddesses into a festive and customary activity to drive away evil spirits, pray for good luck and avoid calamities, and celebrate joyfully, decorate and beautify the environment, and express the people's thoughts and feelings and aspirations for a better life. Folk New Year's paintings have a long history, have a large number of places of origin, and are very popular, popular, and have a large number of readers, and have had a rather prosperous development. Whether it is the content of the subject matter, engraving and printing technology, or artistic style, all have their own distinctive features. It is not only on the other categories of folk art had a far-reaching impact, but also with other paintings to form a mutual integration into a mature painting, with the characteristics of elegant and popular **** appreciation.