Organizations across China have come together to save an ancient New Year tradition"Door god,door god,rides the red horse,stands by the door and watches the house;door god,door god, carries a knife,keeps the ghos...Organizations across China have come together to save an ancient New Year tradition"Door god,door god,rides the red horse,stands by the door and watches the house;door god,door god, carries a knife,keeps the ghosts away from the room."The"door god"in this popular Spring Festival rhyme is the main theme of China’s woodcut New Year art,a tradition that has been passed down for generations. As the Spring Festival,also known展开更多
Folk art is not constrained by scholastic regulations such as proportion and perspective. Taking rural life as their subject matter, farmers from the Hubei mountains by the Yangtze River’s Xiling Gorge create woodcut...Folk art is not constrained by scholastic regulations such as proportion and perspective. Taking rural life as their subject matter, farmers from the Hubei mountains by the Yangtze River’s Xiling Gorge create woodcut paintings with a humorous and unpretentious charm. Recently, more than a hundred works created by these farmer painters were exhibited in the China Art Gallery in Beijing.展开更多
文摘Organizations across China have come together to save an ancient New Year tradition"Door god,door god,rides the red horse,stands by the door and watches the house;door god,door god, carries a knife,keeps the ghosts away from the room."The"door god"in this popular Spring Festival rhyme is the main theme of China’s woodcut New Year art,a tradition that has been passed down for generations. As the Spring Festival,also known
文摘Folk art is not constrained by scholastic regulations such as proportion and perspective. Taking rural life as their subject matter, farmers from the Hubei mountains by the Yangtze River’s Xiling Gorge create woodcut paintings with a humorous and unpretentious charm. Recently, more than a hundred works created by these farmer painters were exhibited in the China Art Gallery in Beijing.
