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  JinChuan Zhang

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  I'd like to say something about the Chinese folk art and also my website http://www.loongart.com.
  
  China has a history about 5000 years. Plenty of legends and crafts were handed down to now. Obviously, there are colorful culture behind these legends and the crafts.
  
  We, in order to spread Chinese culture and found a basic platform to develop our group, are trying to put this website to the world. There are kinds of fork art works and news from all sides of the modern society in China.
  
  Lot of relevant articles on Chinese travel, food, custom, and so on. Pay attention to my website now, let's become friends. The following, I' d like to introduce something about Chinese art briefly.
  
  Chinese folk art is an important part of the Chinese extremely rich cultural and art heritage. Chinese folk art has won recognition and praise from experts both at home and abroad for its great variety, sincere rural content, rich flavor of life, distinctive local style, and its artistic approaches of romanticism.
  
  The folk artist is at his best in understanding and depicting life in its wholeness, and apt to show its rhythms and melodies. He relies on his intuition, impressions and memories, as well as his experience and understanding of life to grasp the essence of the phenomena or objects he depicts, thus making the artistic images quite different from their original models. In artistic representation and expression, works of folk art are straightforward, natural, flexible, free from affectedness, vivid and intimate. They reside, in roundabout ways, ideas in particular images, reason in emotion, and feelings in concrete forms. Ingenuity is found in simplicity, exquisiteness in crudeness, and humor in clumsiness. Folk artists also use decorative, figurative, allegoric and symbolic methods with magical deftness. Since ancient times, Chinese folk art has been seeking to understand and present the lofty spirit of the Chinese nation. It has given expression to the indomitable morale and character of the Chinese people shown in their constant efforts to open up new paths for development.
  
  Like a galaxy of brilliant gems, folk art embraces all aspects of daily life and is loved by the masses. The materials that most commonly used are the ordinary natural substances that come readily to hand. Folk artists are familiar with the aesthetic habits of the people, and their feel of life is based on the aesthetic experiences of the masses. In creating art forms, they are guided by their mind, reason and aesthetic rules. Some of their works seem to be crudely made, but they show great ingenuity, originality, simplicity and purity, which implies a profound philosophy of art. Works of folk art afford people not only aesthetic enjoyment and amusement, but also knowledge and education.
  
  Love is the motive force of aesthetic appreciation, and the motive force of creation of the beautiful. Folk artists have been under the edifying influence of folk art since their early childhood, and a seed of beauty was planted in their hearts when they became apprentices to elder folk artists. Their love for the beautiful is eternal.
  
  Crafts, the largest category of folk art, perfectly combines the material and spiritual life of the people because they have both utilitarian and aesthetic value. Folk art is born of heart. It is not something that has become rigidly fixed; instead, it steadily develops as it tries to meet people's need for appreciation of the beautiful. As a form of the traditional Chinese art, folk art is an intermixture of the aesthetic psychology of society and the aesthetic psychology of the artists, which externalizes itself through palpable media. It will develop with history, society and people's life.
  
  • 29 Nov 2006, 10:13 am
  JinChuan Zhang wrote: > I'd like to say something about the Chinese folk art and also my > website www.loongart.com. > > China has a history about 5000 years. Plenty of legends and crafts > were handed down to now. Obviously, there are colorful culture behind > these legends and the crafts. > > We, in order to spread Chinese culture and found a basic platform to > develop our group, are trying to put this website to the world. There > are kinds of fork art works and news from all sides of the modern > society in China. > > Lot of relevant articles on Chinese travel, food, custom, and so on. > Pay attention to my website now, let's become friends. The following, > I' d like to introduce something about Chinese art briefly. > > Chinese folk art is an important part of the Chinese extremely rich > cultural and art heritage. Chinese folk art has won recognition and > praise from experts both at home and abroad for its great variety, > sincere rural content, rich flavor of life, distinctive local style, > and its artistic approaches of romanticism. > > The folk artist is at his best in understanding and depicting life in > its wholeness, and apt to show its rhythms and melodies. He relies on > his intuition, impressions and memories, as well as his experience > and understanding of life to grasp the essence of the phenomena or > objects he depicts, thus making the artistic images quite different > from their original models. In artistic representation and > expression, works of folk art are straightforward, natural, flexible, > free from affectedness, vivid and intimate. They reside, in > roundabout ways, ideas in particular images, reason in emotion, and > feelings in concrete forms. Ingenuity is found in simplicity, > exquisiteness in crudeness, and humor in clumsiness. Folk artists > also use decorative, figurative, allegoric and symbolic methods with > magical deftness. Since ancient times, Chinese folk art has been > seeking to understand and present the lofty spirit of the Chinese > nation. It has given expression to the indomitable morale and > character of the Chinese people shown in their constant efforts to > open up new paths for development. > > Like a galaxy of brilliant gems, folk art embraces all aspects of > daily life and is loved by the masses. The materials that most > commonly used are the ordinary natural substances that come readily > to hand. Folk artists are familiar with the aesthetic habits of the > people, and their feel of life is based on the aesthetic experiences > of the masses. In creating art forms, they are guided by their mind, > reason and aesthetic rules. Some of their works seem to be crudely > made, but they show great ingenuity, originality, simplicity and > purity, which implies a profound philosophy of art. Works of folk art > afford people not only aesthetic enjoyment and amusement, but also > knowledge and education. > > Love is the motive force of aesthetic appreciation, and the motive > force of creation of the beautiful. Folk artists have been under the > edifying influence of folk art since their early childhood, and a > seed of beauty was planted in their hearts when they became > apprentices to elder folk artists. Their love for the beautiful is > eternal. > > Crafts, the largest category of folk art, perfectly combines the > material and spiritual life of the people because they have both > utilitarian and aesthetic value. Folk art is born of heart. It is not > something that has become rigidly fixed; instead, it steadily > develops as it tries to meet people's need for appreciation of the > beautiful. As a form of the traditional Chinese art, folk art is an > intermixture of the aesthetic psychology of society and the aesthetic > psychology of the artists, which externalizes itself through palpable > media. It will develop with history, society and people's life.