Study on the Woodblock New Year Pictures of Zhuxianzhen Town

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10.2991/icassee-18.2018.113How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Zhuxianzhen; woodcut new year pictures; image; visual language

Abstract

Zhuxianzhen woodblock New Year Picture has a long history and is the leading and source of Chinese woodblock New year Pictures, which is the living fossil of Chinese Folk Wood New year Pictures. Zhuxianzhen’s woodblock New Year Pictures originated from the Han and Tang murals, evolved from ancient peach symbols, exuberance in the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, declined in the Republic of China, and prosper in the contemporary era. It has unique characteristics of cultural symbols, its artistic image is simple and exaggerated, its color is beautiful and auspicious, its expressive technique is romantic, and it has extremely high ornamental value and art collection value. This paper analyzes the visual language features of Zhuxianzhen woodblock pictures from the aspects of modeling features, composition features and color features of the New Year Pictures, and compares them with those of other places, in order to explore the profound cultural connotation and religious implication of Zhuxianzhen woodcut New Year picture.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hong Nie
AU  - Mengyao Ran
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Study on the Woodblock New Year Pictures of Zhuxianzhen Town
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 559
EP  - 566
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icassee-18.2018.113
DO  - 10.2991/icassee-18.2018.113
ID  - Nie2018/12
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