Chinese Folk Art Colors And Modern And Contemporary Painting,

The Chinese nation has created magnificent and splendid cultures and arts, of which folk art is one part with national characteristics local spirits; meanwhile, as a source of art, it promotes the development of national art in each historical period.Chinese folk art is in unity opposites with national arts such as royal arts, scholar arts and religious arts. They are opposite as well as complementary, on which our nation's existence depends with a long history, folk art is of various kinds and with specific view of color, thus forming a complete model system the Third Model system, dependent of the Eastern Model System and western Model System.However, many artists of "refined tastes", especially young artists despise folk art for its "vulgarity". They have a far better understanding toward western art than our national traditional art. What's more, in our art education, no basic traditional cultured education is found, which is really a pity.Aiming at the above urgent questions, the current paper shows the specific charm of folk art color by its six features and principle of coloring, proposes the factors which modem paintings may use for reference from folk art color, and views the old folk art on color from a new perspective.Based on facts, this paper uses knowledge of diflfent disciplines such as folk lore, art psychology, and picture theory, research methods such as examples and comparison, and focuses on the influence of folk art color. Through the contrast of folk art in different historical periods, and the analysis of many Chinese and foreign artists, the paper explores and concludes the factors of Chinese folk art color that may be referred to by modern painting.