What is the theme of Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures in expression?
Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures are folk art created, loved and used by farmers themselves, which reflects farmers' simple thoughts and feelings in content, and has strong folk characteristics and distinctive and simple local style in form. The native peasant artists firmly grasp the Chinese New Year, the most festive festival, and highlight the word "Year", which is suitable for farmers to love life, labor, prosperity and prosperity.
I always look forward to Man Cang's best wishes, with abundant financial resources, children and grandchildren, happiness, longevity and good luck, and peace in all seasons. Follow the principle of "painting is not serious, but it looks good", so that the New Year pictures give people a bright, beautiful, auspicious and warm festive atmosphere in form. In terms of content, there are door paintings that can eliminate disasters and protect happiness, and exquisite New Year pictures, such as prosperity of five industries, abundant crops, five sons entering the cornucopia, endless happiness, double happiness coming today, Five Blessingg coming today and so on.
One of the advantages of Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures is that the subject matter is rich. According to farmers' customs, beliefs, ideological requirements and aesthetic concepts, it creates a large number of colorful and perfect New Year pictures suitable for sacrifice and decoration. There are not only myths and legends, folk stories, novels and operas, but also monsters, auspicious birds and beasts, scenic flowers, current affairs humor, folk customs, entertainment programs and so on, which can be described as spectacular and everything, providing rich spiritual food for poor farmers.
Complete, full and symmetrical composition is the second artistic feature of Yangjia woodblock New Year pictures. New Year pictures are the re-creation art of natural things after generalization, concentration and conciseness, especially due to the limitation of engraving technology and the requirement of good-looking and cheap goods. In order to highlight the theme better and infect the masses more strongly, woodblock New Year pictures are closely related to the theme in composition and arrangement of bones. Highlighting the characters in genre painting, abandoning the natural scenes unrelated to the theme, arranging the characters with scattered perspective and reducing the level and plane layout are more conducive to expressing the activities of the characters.
Characteristics of Yangjiabu Woodblock New Year Pictures;
Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures have gradually developed and improved according to farmers' ideological requirements, customs and beliefs, aesthetic views and life needs, and formed their own simple and elegant, concise and lively style. It is rooted in the people and decorated in festivals. For a long time, it has played a role in enriching people's spiritual life, reflecting people's good wishes and beautifying people's holiday environment.
The artistic characteristics of Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures are: not bound by nature, expressing the theme with rich imagination, generalization, romanticism, symbolism and implication; The composition is complete, full and symmetrical; The modeling is exaggerated, concise, rough and simple. When making New Year pictures, artists first paint with wicker charcoal sticks and incense ashes, which is called "rotten draft". On this basis, they completed the manuscript, drew the line draft, carved the line version and color version respectively, and printed it by hand. After the New Year pictures are printed, they are manually supplemented with various colors and simply described to make them more natural and vivid.