At the estuary of Huangpu River in North Shanghai, there is a famous modern folk painting center---Shanghai Baoshan District Baoshan Town.
With its unique skin texture and broad creative space, blow-molding woodcut becomes a member of modern woodcut family, blow-molding woodcut. People in Baoshan Town create a large number of works with simple emotions, exaggerated design, bright colors and graceful picture in the new artistic world, rendering spiritual products with rich countryside charm to the world.
At present, a blow-molding woodcut creation force composed of peasants, workers, students and cadres gathers on this 14-square-kilometer land, among them are amateur backbone forces like Cao Fumei, Jin Yiming and Yan Xiulin. Their works have been awarded nearly 100 prizes in both domestic and international exhibitions and contests. Some have been collected by people in the United States, Japan and Singapore.
The development of Baoshan blow-molding woodcut is due to the prosperity of the economy of Baoshan Town, attention of leaders at all levels, support of the municipal fine arts circle and teachers of the district culture hall like Gong Gandi. In the future, blow-molding woodcut will boom and prosper in the rich soil of Baoshan Town.
|