A wall of the guangdong national forest park. Photos of liu sing ming
Wall drawings are being carried out by villagers in the quntai town of qun jia town. Xinhua
Hot spot observation
Earlier, the topic “a 3-metre-old farmer makes a picture of the country” was hotly searched and the debate started. Anhui and a 53-year-old farmer, who began painting walls for the countryside in 2018, tied rollers on poles to paint pens, painted mountain water, characters, flowers, and also designed drawings based on the shape of the wall. Netizens shouted: "the master is in civil society."。
In july of this year, a college graduate from nimbau returned to her village of origin and spent a month painting a wall. The hand-drawing walls, the busy teachers in the barber shop, the elderly who depend on the window of the commissary, the sleeping men in the tavern, and the dog in the wall, all painted by local wind, not only with a strong breath of life, but also with many generations of local sorrow. The hand-drawing wall has become a “hot-to-cave” in the village and a model for neighbouring villages fighting against each other。
Rural revitalization is a major task in achieving the great renaissance of the chinese nation. What can be done to revitalize the village as a wall painting for public art in the process of promoting beautiful village construction and the reconstruction of the village? This is an important time topic。
It'll make the country more pristine
Wall painting, in short, painting on walls, is generally made using environmentally friendly, dry acrylic paints, etc. It has evolved from historical murals and is widely used for interior decorations, outdoor beauty, etc. With the full implementation of the village revitalization strategy, the relevance and value of the wall is being re-recognized。
The painting of walls, with its advocacy mission, continues to evolve in innovation. In the early villages of china, the walls were painted on the basis of their public nature, visual impact, etc., and their important mission of promoting national policy. For a long time, the rural walls were largely covered by big words and, apart from slogans, there were a number of advertisements that made it difficult to say beauty. In today's villages, wall-painted propaganda missions continue and have made good progress in innovation. The widespread use of national paintings, comics, 3d stereotypics, different styles such as writing, writing, and so forth, has led to rural wall drawings that are no longer monothematic, but rather colourful, and that people learn about state policy in subdued serenity and self-absorption in aesthetic enjoyment. For example, there have been positive feedback from the public on the theme of the 100th anniversary of the communist party of china (cpc), the core values of socialism, and the creation of the “party history wall” and the “policy wall” and “new wind wall of civilization”。
Wall-painted rural “dressing” to make the country more attractive. The mission of public art shall meet and serve the aesthetic and functional needs of the public, emphasize integration with the public space environment and public life and, in the process of artistic creation, public awareness of participation. In the process of building beautiful villages, the “dressing” function of wall painting should not be overlooked. There is no particular style, genre or form of public art, and the main objective is to improve the living environment and meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the population. For example, the idea of a “one-wall culture, one-village landscape” has some meaning in drawing “under the cold wall”, “the traditional cultural wall” based on local folklore, traditional civilizations, industrial characteristics, etc. The village's new face and its cultural background and artistic energy have been activated, making it truly worthwhile for the village to become more dignified。
Walls are used to boost rural tourism, which leads villagers to become rich. In recent years, rural tourism has become an important tool for rural revitalization. In order to attract more tourists, some villages and towns have also worked hard on wall painting. Through the construction of the rainbow village, the oil painting village, the painting tiger village, the animation village, the wall painting village, etc., the support facilities were improved, the theme park, the theme park atmosphere was built, and the villages were transformed into “net-to-cage” areas, and some poor villages were even freed from poverty through the gorgeous turn of walls. The improvement of the rural environment not only meets the spiritual and cultural needs of the local population, but also attracts visitors from the surrounding areas and beyond, thus attracting the return or presence of talent, commercial investment, etc., and ultimately boosts the prosperity of the villagers through rural tourism, making the village even more vulnerable to development。
Wall paintings contribute to the transmission of traditional rural and red cultures. In the town of pinggo, guangxi, some villages have created cultural squares with a common vision of ethnic minorities through wall drawings, displaying the traditional cultural content and national ethos of 56 ethnic groups, displaying the family of the chinese nation, promoting national policies, passing on national culture, and expressing the vision of solidarity, solidarity and solidarity among ethnic groups. In the northern part of the country, some villages have not only painted large saplings, but have also built cultural galleries with walls, which tell the works and stories behind them. “armed” villages in the form of walls, red content, are also visible to tourists in old areas of the revolution, such as higokayama. The openness of the art of wall painting provides a path to the decoration of public spaces, the expression of important ideas and the enhancement of cultural heritage and cultural confidence。
It's not like we're all in rainbow village
The art of wall painting not only glorifys the village but also allows for the rapid and effective transmission of rural culture, which greatly contributes to the transformation of the rural environment and to the building of a rural culture. Through the organic combination of aesthetic concepts and cultural content, wall painting plays an important role in promoting aesthetics, leading rural culture forward, and promoting good folk culture, in particular related policies such as the popularization of the party and the nation's pro-farming and farming practices. Thus, there is still a need to focus attention on how to use the potential value and functionality of wall painting, and to avoid common problems effectively。
In recent years, the development of beautiful villages has been actively promoted in various parts of the world, as well as the emergence of ancient towns, residential development, the “rainbow” village, the “holla village”, which provides lessons for rural renewal and gives new inspiration to the construction of beautiful villages。
In the case of rainbow village, for example, many people, from abroad to across the country, prefer rainbow village, and news about the creation of rainbow village is frequently available online. Although the “rainbow village” is good, the results of the local copying may be counterproductive. The idea of a world of colours and fairy tales can easily give rise to visual irritation and a sense of freshness, and even to the false prosperity of the “net-to-carve”. In the long run, however, what remains after the new sense of homogenization of the rainbow village? If, despite the reality of the financial situation of the village, its village, its physical appearance, its geographical culture and so on, it is possible that the debt may go hand-in-hand with the destruction of the village's original bright spots and even colour pollution。
Wall painting provides enough room for imagination and space to build beautiful villages everywhere, but it is not as simple as replicating experience to use it. The art of wall painting differs from the art of painting in general, and it has a distinct geographical character, requiring a high degree of integration with village-wide planning, architectural features, plant landscapes, etc., to achieve harmony in colour, content and materials. High-quality wall drawings can avoid homogenization only if they are tailored to the local context and the culture is highlighted。
The drawing of walls is tailored to local conditions, and it is necessary to extract material from local cultural resources and to seek inspiration from life in an effort to achieve an organic unity of culture, taste and beauty. The rural areas are the cradle of chinese culture and the treasure of traditional culture of excellence. They are endemic to folk art, dress culture, eating culture, architecture culture, festival culture, non-inherited culture, etc. As the times change, some cultures fade away from people's lives, but they remain active in the memory of different generations. These seemingly outdated cultural memories are the most valuable asset of a village and its most distinctive wall drawing material. These features can be seen in terms of both policy advocacy and rural “smuggling” and are sustainable. As ningbo university women draw, the theme wall is a reflection of local wind, which, for the local population, is the gallery of their memories and a window for tourists to understand the local landscape. Village wall drawings can also refer to thematic wall painting practices in some areas, such as a landscape wall painting in the national forest park of the dongdong mount in guangdong. The wall's fish leaping into the dragon gate falls and the park's 36-grade waterfalls are truly interesting, and they actually make it possible for tourists to travel in both natural beauty and spiritual pleasure。
The use of the art of wall painting in the countryside has become increasingly widespread, and the more so, the more sober we are, the more we are and the more we are, the more we are going to stay awake. High-quality wall drawings allow national policy to take root, make the village a fresh place, keep the village culture alive and keep the traditional festivities alive. As we explore how the art of wall painting can contribute to rural revitalization, attention should also be paid to the refinement, innovation and evolution of the criteria for evaluating the art of wall painting. It should be guided by aesthetic values, promotional functions, harmony, etc. It is expected that the painting of walls will play a more active role in the revitalization of villages and the construction of beautiful villages。
(by jung yue, lecturer at the faculty of fine arts of the northeast teacher training university and professor at the faculty of fine arts of the northeast teacher training university)
