The Protection And Development Of Folk Art Of The Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture In Weifang

The Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture is a wonderful work in our folk arts treasury. It is worldly famous for its strong local flavor and its simple yet colorful style. The Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture has a long history of several handred years. For centuries, the farmers in Yangjiabu took the creation work of the wood engraving picture in their slack seasons. They have cultivated this folk art famous in very hard conditions. The Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture is characterized by a distinctive local style and national color. It is one of the three most famous folk Wood Engraving Picture in China, equally famous with Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Taohuawu in Suzhou. The Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture is skilled at highlighting its theme by morals, symbols, exaggeration and deformation, schetching out the pictures with simple and plain techniques, chromatographing two groups of comparative colors: red and green, yellow and purple, taking its shape of bright, colorful pictures with strong decrating delight, all which reflects the wishes and beliefs of farmers at that time. Implying the happiness, fortunes, and luck in making big money, wishing people good fortune as wishes, encouraging people to foge ahead, it is a a form of drawing loved and supported by large number of people. For centuries, the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture, on the basis of the ideology, belief, aesthetic, and living demands of farmers, has gradually perfected and developed itself into the style of simple yet graceful, concise yet colorful. It is based on the folk arts, decorated for festivals, and has long enriched people's spiritual life, reflected their wishes, and embellished their festival environments.For a long time, the researchers have gone deep into the history and the art forms of the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture, especially in recent years, with the concept of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in China putting forward, this folk art form gains more and more concerns, and the protection and development also gain more importance. But we have less research on its colors, and less theoretical works on it. Therefore, this thesis mainly focuses on the research on the color art forms of the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture. From the point of its color theories, this thesis analyzes the reasons of this art form being so popular and loved by so many people.There are three parts in this thesis:Partâ… : introduction. This part, by illustrating the definition and topic selection of the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture, separate it with the Wei County Engraving Picture. And by reviewing and evaluating the researches in the past, stating the deficiencies in color studies, this thesis mainly elaborates clearly the importance of the research in the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture.Partâ…¡consists of four chapters. The fist chapter mainly discusses the origins and developments of the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture, and detailedly discusses its color choosing features in different periods. Chapter two mainly discusses the color features of the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture from the point of color choosing types, color features of all subjects in Engraving Pictures, and the psychological inflences of colors. This chapter especially explains the traditional pigment making art of the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture. Based on the discussions on its current problems, the third chapter promotes suggestions on the protections of the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture. On the basis of the discussions on the color development, chapter four raises suggestions on the development of the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture.Partâ…¢: conclusion. This part mainly summarizes the basic issues in this thesis. The distinctive color art of the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture influence the artistic field, whether the past or the future, imperceptibly.The deep-rooted problems left aside, the most important thing for the protection of the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Picture is undoubtedly to get it known and loved by the public, which will completely solve the problems now existed in the Yangjiabu Wood Engraving Pictures.