Brief Discussion On The Farmer Image In Chinese Oil Paintings

China is a great power that owns several thousand-of-year agricultural civilization. The number of farmer groups occupies a certain proportion in China. With such the huge troops, they play an irreplaceable role on the every stage of China development and are pillar strength of social culture and economic construction. It can be found that artists never stop creating farmer image in their arts. Paintings with such a theme are extremely filled with vitality.This article mainly discusses farmer portraits in Chinese paintings, and analyses a selection of works by several renowned painters. It acknowledges farmers as the majority of Chinese population, introduces backgrounds for their portraits, describes the dominancy of such portraits, and explains why farmers are an essential theme for Chinese paintings. It briefs on works issued around the foundation of new Chinese government, during the Cultural Revolution, at the end of the 1970s and in current age, explaining background and listing a selection of works for each period. It analyses the works of Shikuo Wang, Zhongli Luo, Dongwang Xin and Zhengqu Duan and explains the works’ expression of farmers’ feelings. By studying farmer portraits completed in different periods and scrutinizing changes of farmers’ facial expression, I became enlightened about techniques for farmer portraits. Our age has refreshed farmer image, and we shall try to delineate such a plain society with mission and affection.