Wheat straw (straw) painting

Straw (straw) painting is a new variety in the art garden, and it is known as a wonderful flower in the art garden. Wheat straw handicraft once existed in history, but it is usually dyed and then collaged into patterns to obtain the effect of handicraft. Wheat straw painting is by going up one flight of stairs. Its main feature is that wheat straw is selected as raw material, processed by removing film, slicing, splitting silk, etc., using collage, engraving, mosaic and other production methods, according to plane, relief, three-dimensional composition and modeling, and skillfully using the original luster and unique texture of wheat straw (stem), ingenious design, meticulous work, through the brightness, depth, thickness and mosaic of wheat straw, The inventor of wheat straw painting is Mr. Shi Renjie, a teacher of Taicang Party School. Originated in 1958, after more than 40 years of painstaking research, it has become increasingly mature and reached a considerable artistic realm. Wheat straw (straw) painting has been separated from the primary stage of wheat straw crafts and began to move closer to new painting. At present, the scope of wheat straw painting has been very wide, such as landscape, flowers, birds, fish and insects, people and animals, houses and buildings, etc. All kinds of patterns are lifelike, and they have unique artistic effects of being flashy but not flattering, plain but not vulgar, and they also have the ornamental value of being hidden for a long time and never getting tired of seeing them. Since the wheat straw painting came out in the 1950s, in 1962, it won an excellent prize in the "Youth Art and Photography Exhibition" held by Shanghai Youth Newspaper. In April 1984, he won the first prize of handicraft appraisal held by Henan Provincial Department of Light Industry; In May of the same year, he won the second prize in the national arts and crafts exhibition held by the Ministry of Light Industry in Beijing; Since the 1990s, it has won many awards such as "Green Product Development Award" and "Chinese Award". He has also participated in Suzhou Industrial Fair of Kunming World Expo, Jiangsu Industrial Fair of Nanjing and Suzhou Famous and Excellent Products Fair of Wuhan. Because of the resplendent, rich and elegant visual effect and unique and novel artistic effect, wheat straw painting is deeply favored by experts and audiences. In recent years, Taicang's wheat straw paintings have gone to Japan, South Korea, Europe and America, Southeast Asian countries, Hong Kong and Taiwan markets, becoming gifts and tourist souvenirs, and also being collected by art lovers.
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