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The world is now full of incorrect information about the Chinese culture. Our ultimate goal is to promote Chinese tradition and heritage so that a true, complete image of the Chinese folks can be implemented.

We choose to introduce Peasant Paintings as the key to peep into the world of Chinese folk art.

What Is Peasant Painting

There is no formal definition of “Peasant Painting (Farmer Painting)", but it is customary for Peasant Painting to be understood as:
※ paintings of farmers' daily lives; or
※ a painting drawn by a peasant(farmer).

As there are farmers everywhere, there are peasant paintings all over the world, and of course, the style / format of these paintings are quite different. For example:

French peasant painting	Chinese peasant painting

(Chinese) Peasant Painting	Engraving

Peasant Painting draws on folk paintings, paper-cuts, embroidery, oil paintings、... and so on via various artistic techniques.

Lady in a Peasant Painting	Lady in a Chinese water-color painting

The content of peasant painting comes from rural life:

Ploughing in actual ilfe	(Chinese) Peasant Painting

Peasant Painting often uses bright colors, exaggerated descriptions, profound themes, concise and bright style, with these techniques to sketch out beautiful pastoral scenery, lifelike field living. The atmosphere of warm labor scenes and happy festivals fully reflects the characteristics of modern folk art. The two distincive characterlistics of (Chinese) Peasant Painting are:
1. Use of colors
Unbridled section, grand, smooth lines. Bold with color, colorful, strong contrast. Cold and warm contrast, complementary color contrast.

Feel the temperature (warm/cold)	Different colors to describe different seasons

2. Expression techniques:
Styling exaggeration (like western modern paintings), generalization. The lines are full, so are the characters. The plane is decorative.

Picasso modern painting	(Chinese) Farmer Painting

Art without culture is pale and weak. The beauty of peasant painting is that it reveals an intensive sense of culture, showing people's morality values , attitude and thinking about nature, customs, life and love. The peasant painting reflect the typical Lingnan traditional folk culture and syle of living.

Today, peasant painting with its unique artistic expression and artistic value, has been fully affirmed and praised by the art world at home and abroad, often renowned as "Lingnan art wonders."