Modern farmers' painting activities in Jinshan County, Shanghai began in the 1970s, involving more than 300 people, including farmers and teenagers in their seventies, among whom rural women account for the largest proportion. Inspired by folk embroidery and paper-cutting, they study hard and show their lives and things around them, and their imaginations are very rich. Lu Yongzhong, a farmer painter in Jinshan County, is a native of Sanxing Village, the main lane of Jinshan County. Since graduating from middle school, he has been painting while farming, and has created more than a thousand works so far. Among them, "The Naughty Spring of Shuanglong" won the second prize of the National Farmers' Art Exhibition; "Warm Grass Shop" and "Fujian" won the third prize of the National Farmers Art Exhibition; "Yuanyang in Spring Pool" won the second prize of Shanghai Jiangnan Art Exhibition; Dogs in the Snow was selected for the national exhibition of outstanding peasant paintings organized by China Artists Association, and many of its works were also selected by the Ministry of Culture as international cultural exchange works for overseas exhibitions. It is particularly worth mentioning that after four years of hard work, he recently painted a "Celebrating Harvest" with a height of 70cm and a length of 15m, which became a great innovation in the history of peasant painting.

Jinshan peasant painting, rooted in folk art, boldly exaggerates art with romantic imagination, forming a distinct artistic conception and modeling characteristics. The theme of Jinshan peasant paintings is often drawn from rural scenery or fragments of rural life, and presented in the paintings with bright and colorful colors and concise brushstrokes. Every peasant painting seems to tell a touching and interesting story, expressing the author's feelings for his hometown and his love for life. It can be said that the more national, the more tenacious and the more cosmopolitan, as evidenced by Lu Yongzhong's exhibitions abroad. Cao, a folk artist, male, 1969 was born in a poor peasant family in Xingta Town, Jinshan District, Shanghai. He is a farmer painter in Jinshan, party member of the Communist Party of China. 12 years old, was praised by the art teacher in the art class when he was in the third grade of "Wuyi Primary School" in Xingtai. Since then, he has developed a keen interest in painting. Although his family was poor at that time, he saved his pocket money and bought painting supplies. After entering junior high school, the teacher took a fancy to his painting talent, and the school recommended him to go to Zhujing Town Children's Palace for art classes every Sunday. Later, I went to Shanghai Xiyuan Amateur Art School at my own expense. Under the guidance of famous teachers, with enthusiasm and hard work for painting, through more than 20 years of hard work, I finally embarked on the road of peasant painter.

On April 27th 1980, Jinshan peasant paintings were exhibited in China Art Museum, which was praised as "the best folk art in China". 1988 was selected to create peasant paintings in Jinshan Peasant Painting Academy. The works created are vivid in color, simple in image, full in composition, exaggerated and bold in art, with strong national temperament, elegant traditional style and strong local life atmosphere, which are deeply favored by people at home and abroad. Foreign guests from all over the world often visit my studio and collect my works. Now he has created more than 200 works. The resume of the work has been arranged into more than 60 albums.

Sun, Minister of Culture, praised Jinshan peasant painting as "Picasso of China". At the 30th anniversary retrospective exhibition of Jinshan peasant painting, the head of China Folk Artists Association announced at the Shanghai Bund 18 Creation Center on June 5438+08, 2006 that the China Peasant Painting Research Center was formally established in Jinshan, Shanghai, and the first batch of 18 outstanding Jinshan peasant painters was launched, among which Cao was one. Wu (1933.4 ——) is from Shanghai. Good at Chinese painting. 65438-0949 entered the Chinese Painting Department of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. 1950 joined the army and participated in the artistic design of operas such as White-haired Girl and Hongye River. 1963 studied at China Painting Academy. 1972 transferred to Shanghai Jinshan Cultural Center, 1989 founded Jinshan Peasant Painting Academy, served as dean and deputy research librarian. Awarded the title of "National Advanced Worker of Rural Culture and Art" by the Ministry of Culture. His works include Victory in Returning to the Sea and Hero Island in Xiamen. The paper "The Artistic Features of Jinshan Peasant Paintings" and so on. Published a collection of paintings "Wu, Pioneer of Jinshan Peasant Painting".