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Folk Painting of Luochuan in Shaanxi Province browse these categories for related items... All Items: Popular Collectibles:Cultural:Chinese: Pre 2000: item # 768880 Please refer to our stock # 03-83 when inquiring.
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| This charming Chinese folk painting of embroidered felt liners for shoes comes from a rural area in the north of Shaanxi Province. It was painted by a peasant woman who used for her subject the embroidery she was doing for her children, and so merges the centuries-old folk tradition of needlework with the later artistic expression of paint on paper. The Luochuan painting community was among more than 50 such groups that began emerging in China in the late 1950s. (See "The Best of Modern Chinese Folk Painting," Foreign Language Press, Beijing. 1989.) We visited a number of the rural painting communities during the 1990s, and found that style, technique and subject varied greatly according to region. Luochuan painters quite often used embroidered items with symbolic designs as a subject. Unsigned as was usual, this painting was done during the late 1980s or early 1990s. Painters in areas as remote as Luochuan did not have access to good paper, as this piece shows with some slight surface buckling; otherwise, it is in perfect condition. Dimensions of matted piece: height 20" (51 cm), width 23" (59 cm). | ||||||||
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