The story in the New Year painting

Xiaokang Peasant Family Welcomes Spring (New Year Painting) Liao Kaiming/Painting

I often went to the countryside to discuss peasant paintings with peasant painters. During the exchange, I taught the peasant painters their creative experience and painting skills, looked at their paintings, listened to them talk about their creative experience, were inspired, knew enough, and learned from each other, and benefited a lot. I walked into the farm yard, communicated with the farmers, learned about their production and life, they have a strong sense of happiness in the new era and new life, and their enthusiasm infected me, prompting me to pour this fire-like true feeling into the painting and share it with more people.

In artistic creation, details are crucial, and it determines the success or failure of the work. Details cannot be imagined out of thin air, they must come from life. This is most prominently expressed in peasant paintings. The peasant paintings are rich in detail and real and vivid, because the painter paints his own life. Only by being familiar with the details of life can we use them appropriately in our creations.

I am a painter, and I should tell stories with paintings. There are many stories in my painting "A Well-off Farmer Celebrates Spring". After seeing the painting, a friend of Jiaxing Xiuzhou Said, "The Wind of Modern Civilization Blows the New Countryside" This comment is very appropriate and concise and pertinent.

The villagers said, "To get rich, first build roads." In the painting, the road has passed through the doorway of the house, and there are street lights next to the road. The remote countryside no longer worries about dealing with the outside world, and agricultural products can be exported smoothly. The small trucks speeding along the highway are busy delivering deliveries. Logistics are smooth, township industries are thriving, and farmers are naturally rich. With the implementation of "ecological livability", the living environment of farmers has been significantly improved. Look at the courtyard surrounded by trees, and the roof of the small building is also equipped with a solar water heater. Look at the classified garbage cans placed outside the low wall of the courtyard, which is not only environmentally friendly, but also reflects the rural civilization. Snowflakes flutter in the sky, and the small courtyard is wrapped in silver, which is particularly enchanting in the morning glow. Ruixue Mega Year, it is the morning of the first day of the Chinese New Year, the farmhouse full of new year's flavor, the gate is pasted with spring joint door paintings. Red lanterns hang under the eaves of the small building, and the upstairs windows are plastered with blessing characters, and they are lined with golden corn and red peppers. This is the fruit of a bumper harvest by the farmer. The courtyard is quiet, where have the people gone? The answer is known from the debris of a whiplash outside the gate. Last night was Chinese New Year's Eve, people said goodbye to the New Year, too excited and tired, maybe now asleep. Look at the TV antenna on the roof, maybe they are watching a replay of the Spring Festival Gala program that they didn't care about last night. This story is interesting, I just organically integrate these many details into the complete story of "a well-off farmer welcoming spring".

(Author: Liao Kaiming)

Source: Guangming Daily