1976 Sihe Township established a folk art lovers' group to provide systematic creative guidance. After that, the ranks of folk art continued to expand. On May 5th, 1985, the township cultural station held a one-month training course on artistic creation, with 86 participants and more than 80 works. On this basis, the first peasant painting association in the city was established, and Mr. Tian Yuan, the former secretary general of Jiangsu Painting and Calligraphy Association, was hired as honorary president, and Mr. Huang Pimo, the chairman of the Municipal Artists Association, was appointed as consultant. Training and creative activities were carried out normally. In September of that year, the first art exhibition was held in Liuhe County. Hua, vice chairman of China Artists Association, visited the exhibition, and Jiang, the central consultant, personally attended and wrote an inscription to congratulate him. 1986 February, Sihe Farmers Art Exhibition was held in Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum. 1988 65438+1October,1989 September,1989 65438+1October were invited to attend the "WHO Seminar on Rural Health Work in the Asia-Pacific Region" respectively. 1February 993 16 Mr. Wang Linshan's personal peasant painting exhibition was successfully exhibited in Jiangsu Art Museum.
Many newspapers, radio stations, TV stations and art publishing units at home and abroad publish and introduce Sihe peasant paintings from different angles. Jiangsu TV Station and Nanjing TV Station have carefully produced feature films for Sihe peasant paintings for many times. The Japanese magazine International Exchange chose peasant paintings as its cover and published 2000 copies of China Nanjing Peasant Paintings.
So far, Sihe Peasant Painting has created more than 1000 works and papers. Participated in more than 30 exhibitions of different scales at home and abroad. Published more than 100 articles in newspapers and magazines at home and abroad. He won nearly 40 awards at or above the municipal level, and 15 works were collected by China Art Museum and other units. In addition, it has received more than 500 domestic and foreign tourists and more than 65,438+00,000 people.
1Feb. 988, Liuhe County was named as "the hometown of modern folk painting in China" by the Ministry of Culture because of the Sihe peasant painting. From June, 5438 to February, 2008, Yeshan Town was named as "the hometown of folk culture and art in China" by the Ministry of Culture.
Four-in-one peasant paintings are beautiful and euphemistic in style, and bold and simple in Huaibei Plain. On the subject matter, some are based on ancient folk customs, fairy tales and folklore, and some are based on rural life with the flavor of the times and longing for the future; In terms of techniques, farmers' original painting language is used, unreasonable lyricism is used, composition is not bound by time and space, color is not limited by nature and truth, and modeling is not limited by conventional proportion. The artistic technique of exaggeration and deformation has been boldly used, forming a style that sees reality in the virtual, elegance in the soil, beauty in the clumsy, distinctive national style and strong local flavor. Main drafters of this standard: Wang Linshan, Miao Huajun, Zhang, Ding Guanghua and Hu Bin.