A Study On The Art Of Woodcut New Year In Huaxian County Of Henan Province And Its Application In Modern Design

Wood engraving new year painting is the most eye-catching in Chinese folk art.There is no other folk art that can compete with it for its extensive topics, gorgeousways, and colorful regional styles. Thousands years’ development of new yearpainting, the profoundity of cultural connotation, the internsiveness of informationbearing, vividness of ethnic psychology expression, leave us a huge farming wealth.Huaxian county in Henan province is a new look for known origins of woodengraving new year painting in China. The age of origin still can not be judgedaccurately because there is no written records. According to some successors, woodengraving new year painting of Huaxian county originated in Ming dynasty Hongwuyears. The works were sold to southern new year painting center which was betweensoutheast and southwest of Yellow River basin. The works had their owncharacteristic in topic, type, style, technique, and relative custom. It is a lostcivilization.The essay will focus on wood engraving, base on folk culture, collect andarrange existing text and image data, and try to make explosion on the combination oftraditional art and modern design from aesthetics, folklore studies, and designscience.Firstly,the essay will state the origin, development, topic, and art value of woodengraving new year painting in Huaxian county. Secondly, it will analyze themodeling elements, art feature, and folklore characteristics. The second part willfocus on the application of wood engraving new year painting in modern art. It is alsothe key part of the whole essay. From last chapter, it is realized that it is necessary toapply the modeling elements in modern design. Then it will analyze the rules ofapplication from interior design, package design, dress design, poster design,animation design and so on. In the end, it will overview the development andprospect of new year painting in modern design.