Study Of Chinese Folklore Culture Shown In Trade Paintings

Trade paintings that were produced by the demand of market economy and the impact of western art were artistic commodity. Its emergence was a result about communion between China and West, and they were very important part of history about Chinese and Western culture. These paintings have very important historiography signification as kind of business and paintings in south port cities of China. The trade paintings that took the folklore as subject mater depicted community of Qing Dynasty, so they have the trait of sociality and mingled culture. Folklore and culture were symbolistic life style to one nation. And they can distinguish one nation form another. The outcome of the depiction of folklore and culture was exhibit the Chinese immemorial culture and life custom, and attracted more and more people to pay attention to trade paintings, so they created rich profit and gained good chance for their development. The article analyze the form and the development of the special topic, the impersonal cognize the affection of economy for art produce and experience character of their culture, in order to show the status of the south port city, and the active effect of the market. Besides, the creation of such a topic is the external combination of the arts broadcast and aesthetic acceptance.The appearance of trade paintings boosted the development of trade between China and West, and activated the Chinese paintings more commercial vocation. They also inspired the Europe industrial arts and garden design of 17-18 century. And the trade paintings aroused enormous challenge and change for traditional paintings of China. Although those new kind of paintings were not accepted by the mainstream of current culture opinion, they were culture communion and innovated between Chinese with Western art by Chinese painters. While the Chinese painters expressed their sensibility about the Western art though creating trade paintings, and used the Western painting skill to depict the Chinese life. It was creation not ordinary copy. So I think that we should study the trade paintings from very impersonal point of view, and give abundant study for their impact on modern art especially commercial art.This article study trade paintings which had assimilated western painting techniques and the background of those paintings′appears. Further,summing up the property of Chinese trade paintings. And what is more, I study the topics that were arisen in trade paintings in using the culture, especially those paintings about the Chinese folklore culture. In order to catch scholastic eyes and enrich Chinese history of art, this article recurs to culture to get useful conclusion.