Wang Zhan's Series of Portraits of Zhong Kui. Photo by Dong Fei
(New Year to the grassroots) "post-90s" rural painters annual income of 200,000 yuan: let the traditional New Year painting "sprout" netizens
Shangqiu, China, February 5 (Dong Fei) As the Spring Festival approaches, the traditional paintings of Wang Zhan, a "post-90s" rural painter in Yucheng, Henan Province, are becoming more and more popular. Over the years, he has stuck to his hometown and countryside, reading and painting, with an annual income of nearly 200,000 yuan. Recently, his creation of a different zhong kui series of new year paintings has moved netizens.
Wang Zhan's "Zhong Kui Drunk" work. Photo by Dong Fei
Born in 1998, Wang Zhan, a native of Tuyuan Village, Limin Town, Yucheng County, Henan Province, dropped out of school after graduating from junior high school due to unsatisfactory course results. Different from his peers, when rural youth went out of the village to the city to struggle, he stuck to the countryside and had no distractions, taking care of his grandparents while studying and teaching himself to paint.
Wang Genzhu's grandfather Wang Genzhu is a well-known local writer, and the elderly Wang Genzhu, who is over eighty years old, has also insisted on creating in the countryside in recent years. Wang Zhan told reporters: "I love reading and painting, and I am mostly influenced by my grandfather's literature. ”
In the eyes of the old man Wang Genzhu: "Wang Zhan is a precocious child with a talent for literary and artistic creation. ”
In recent years, Wang Genzhu and Wang Zhan's grandfather and grandson have also created hundreds of thousands of words of film scripts such as "The True Biography of Mulan", "The Fire Ancestor of Mankind" and the novel "The Redemption of Mulan" and "Platinum Years". In 2018 and 2019, the grandfather and grandson won the sixth and seventh "Long March Literary and Art Awards" consecutively, which attracted much attention from the literary circles and the media.
Wang stands in the eyes of his friends in the same village as an "alternative", but he still sticks to his inner life. "At the beginning, my family did not support me to learn to paint, and they all felt that the road of painting was too narrow, and survival in the future was a problem." Wang Zhan told reporters: "It may be due to young rebellion, the more things that are not favored by others, the more you want to do a good job and prove it to others." ”
In the past six years, Wang Zhan has persevered and has brought considerable economic income to the family through painting. He revealed to reporters: "In the past two years, the annual income from selling paintings has reached nearly 200,000 yuan. ”
Wang stood at home in the studio to create. Photo by Dong Fei
As the Spring Festival approached, a group of annual chinese paintings created by Wang Station and a series of portraits of Zhong Kui brushed the screen network, which attracted the favor and hot purchase of young netizens on the live broadcast platform. Zhong Kui is drunk, Zhong Kui reads and paints, Zhong Kui offers peaches, Zhong Kui drinks coffee... These personalized custom paintings, which have changed the traditional portrait of Zhong Kui, come to life and jump on the paper.
"Bring Zhong Kui closer to modern life and change Zhong Kui's fierce and majestic image." Wang Zhan introduced to reporters that the Bell Kui he painted was sketched according to the aesthetic tastes of young people, and the original design was drawn.
In our country, the people mostly hang bells and statues of gods during the Spring Festival to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, which has been a traditional custom for thousands of years.
Wang Zhan's portrait of Zhong Kui has become a living. "A lot of people customize it and put it in the office, in the study, in the bedroom. The whole portrait is dominated by red, festive and warm, and the appearance is majestic, which has both a sense of shelter and a pleasant body and mind. ”
How to bring more excellent traditional culture into real life through their own creations? It has become the main vein of Wang Station's creation. His wish is: "Let traditional culture be passed on in a way that is integrated into life." (End)
Source: China News Network