The Library (Department of Cultural Heritage) held the "New Era of Beauty, New Journey of Happiness" - Peasant Painting Art Exhibition for the Centennial of the Founding of the Party
Release time: 2022-06-01
Article source: Reader Service Department
Article author: Ren Huamei
Based on agricultural characteristics, build a first-class university. In order to strengthen the construction of campus culture, enrich the spiritual and cultural life of teachers and students, promote the development of quality education for college students, and welcome the 100th anniversary, on June 1, the library (the Department of Cultural Heritage), together with the Jiangsu Provincial Farmers' Calligraphy and Painting Research Association, and the Jinling Library jointly The "New Era of Beauty Reading, New Journey of Happiness"-the 100-year-old Peasant Painting Art Exhibition of the Founding of the Party kicked off in the atrium on the second floor of the Weigang Campus Library.

Readers appreciate peasant art paintings, photographed by the Reader Service Department
Peasant painting is a kind of popular painting. It is a traditional folk art with a strong mass basis. It is a painting and print painting made and appreciated by farmers. It has a peculiar style and exaggerated techniques, and has the reputation of Oriental Picasso . The paintings exhibited in this exhibition are 60 excellent works carefully selected by the expert group after research, discussion and careful selection. Peasant painters from six painting villages in Nanjing, Xuzhou, Nantong, Huai'an, Yancheng, Zhenjiang and other provinces, through profound themes, simple The bright style, flowing lines and bright and generous colors outline the development process of realizing rural revitalization and cultivating rural culture in the new countryside in the new era under the correct leadership of the party, showing the simple and beautiful life of the peasants. Beautiful and moving rural scenery, quiet and comfortable farm life, lively labor scenes, joyous festival celebrations... Images full of rich and warm rural atmosphere and distinctive local characteristics are vividly displayed on the paper, showing the uniqueness of farmers' paintings. Some styles and characteristics fully reflect the development achievements of "strong, rich, beautiful and high" rural culture construction in new Jiangsu.


Some of the paintings on display
According to the arrangement, this peasant painting art exhibition will last until June 30. Teachers and students are welcome to visit and enter the spiritual home of peasant painters from the exhibition, experience their unique academic concepts and visual concepts, and experience traditional culture and contemporary Fusion of art.
(Author: Ren Huamei Review: Zhang Kun)