Chinese Huxian Pomegranate Harvest Folk Painting

Chinese: Folk Art: Primitive Paintings Pre 2000: item #754256
12-23

A colorful and joyous folk painting from rural Huxian County in Shaanxi Province, China, shows seven young girls carrying baskets overflowing with pomegranates through an orchard. The girls, accompanied by birds, weave among low, fruit-laden trees. Done in gouache on paper, the charming, simple scene is a peasant painter's interpretation of a bountiful harvest day, and employs a once-favorite rural symbol, the multi-seeded pomegranate that represented the hope for numerous offspring. Huxian (Huh... Click for details

Chinese Huxian Lotus Folk Painting

Chinese: Folk Art: Primitive Paintings Pre 2000: item #717657
03-61

A Chinese folk painting from a rural community in Shaanxi Province celebrates the beauty of pink lotus plants blooming in a pond. The lotus, emblem of purity and perfection, is highly regarded in China, where every part of the plant has a use--as food, medicine or cosmetics. Chinese artists often depicted the lotus along with ducks, as in this painting where the lotus plants are oversized in relation to the black ducks swimming in a stream through the stems. Two seals at the top left of the pain... Click for details

Chinese Huxian Folk Painting Of Children

Chinese: Folk Art: Primitive Paintings Pre 1990: item #677672
12-21

In a folk painting from Huxian County, Shaanxi Province, two charming little girls are seen from the back as they walk to school. One of them appears to be whispering a secret to her friend. Gouache on paper, the painting is unsigned, as is typical for such folk pieces. Huxian (Huhsien) was China's first peasant painting community, established in 1958 in a rural region about an hour's drive outside the city of Xian. From Huxian the peasant painting movement spread across China and by 1989 there ... Click for details