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Ansai, which paper-cut & painting well-known throughout the country,
also is a famous town of folk song & waist drum. Folk paper-cut is
simple, unsophisticated but vividly; modern folk painting is colorful;
waist drum just like loess powerful wind; Ansai folk songs show the
lingering sentiments; these may be rated as cream of the orient
aesthetic art.
Through more than ten years excavate, according to his distinctive
character & innate character artistic & study value of ancient culture,
it gains good reputation of “Beatty’s Mother”, & also is called “Ground
Cultural Relic”, “Living Culture Fossil”. Through arranging & creating a
lot of paper－cut
,1000 pictures (kinds) were collected by Chinese Art Center, Shang Hai
Art Center, the Central Art College, etc. Many foreigners also brought &
collected them one after another. People called it “have vitality’s
hill-chrysanthemum”. In 1993, Ansai County was called “Chinese Paper-cut
Town” by Chinese’s Culture Department.
Ansai Modern Folk Painting was developed in the basis of a lot of folk
art just like paper-cut, embroider, cloth toy, painting around kang at
the end of 70s, is a new & developing folk art style. It has deeply
background of nature, history, society, culture & rich life setting, it
shows the loess custom &.farmer's simple & honest in Shanbei anywhere .
It has highly creative & imaginative faculty, & can be traced to the
same origin with the ancient Shanbei’s natural custom. From 1980,
paintings were shown in internal & external unceasing; many of them won
prices in China also were brought & collected by Chinese Paint Center,
Chinese, and foreigners. In 1988, Ansai were called “Nation-wide Modern
Folk Painting Town” by Chinese Cultural Department. People said that
Ansai modern folk painting is permeated with the Chinese farmer's
elegant demeanor of new culture.
Ansai is the region which keeps & develops collectivest &
representativest to Chinese loess culture, it has particular position.
Folkway is simple & unsophisticated, passionate, art is magnificent &
completely & spread from generations to generations. It is always called
“Folk Song's Ocean” by people.
Ansai waist drum is a folk square dancing art, which lasted more than
one thousand years, it’s made according to legend from ancient soldiers
who garrison the frontiers, and it hasn't wane in thousand years. In
1986, Chinese 1st folk dancing content, it won the senior price. In
1990, it join group calisthenics of opening ceremony in the 11th Asia
Sports Game, was renowned at home & abroad.
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Ma Guo Yu, a female local artist, was born
in Ansai county, Shanxi province in
China, which is
a world-famous hometown of Chinese local
art. She is one of the third-class artists
and has been
selected in a book named The Selection of
Chinese local Artist. She loves local
paper-cut and painting very much, because
she was influenced both by her family and
some local artists. Now she has formed her
own character of modern paper-cut. She has
been a well-known artist in the field of
Chinese paper-cut with great success, she
has made many great works of paper-cut, such
as Happiness in Dog Year, Collecting
Treasures and Twelve Animal Representatives
of Birth, Not only this, she has also made
many great works of painting. For example,
Two Stonebreakers, Love for Hometown and
Busy Spring. She received the silver award
at the Second National Cultural Exhibition
of China. She was greatly praised for her
works by the experts of Chinese local art.
Some of her works have been
kept in the central Painting college. Because of her
great success on art, she has been high-appreciated
as an expert of Chinese paper-cut by the Chinese
local Art committee.
