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Chinese Peasant Painting
 The Ansai painting to the left is characterized by fancy
imaginations and bold colors. Its exaggerated modeling, distortion, and
surrealistic style lend a feeling of truthfulness and naivety. The flamboyant
color and compositions are imaginative, and cheerfully decorative. The art
possesses the simplicity of people.
Some of the Ansai farmers' paintings
are collected in the National Art Museum of China. What's more, the local
brushworks have been exhibited in "the French Independent Salon Arts," while
newspapers and periodicals like Arts, China Pictorial, and People Daily have
appraised the folk art as a whole. In 1998, Ansai County won the title of "a
Chinese Peasant Painting Village" by the State Ministry of Culture.
Longmen paintings stand out for their strong influence in the style from
southern ethnic nationalities, an attribute that is rare in Chinese Native Art.
With more attention now shifted to the study of ethnography, Longmen folk art
has gradually attracted its due attention. More than 100 pieces of Longmen works
have been displayed both at home and abroad, of which 48 paintings have been
awarded provincial-level prizes. Besides, foreigners have bought over 4,500
brushworks.
   
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The Ansai painting to the left is characterized by fancy
imaginations and bold colors. Its exaggerated modeling, distortion, and
surrealistic style lend a feeling of truthfulness and naivety. The flamboyant
color and compositions are imaginative, and cheerfully decorative. The art
possesses the simplicity of people.
