She studied painting at the age of 48 and held a solo exhibition every year! Expert: No artistic value. It's a peasant woman doodling.

Known by netizens as a talented painter, she said that she would take painting seriously like farming and stick to it. Whether it is hype or accidental similarity, painting has changed a peasant woman's life and given her new hopes and longings, which is a good thing. We often say that art is used to cultivate people's sentiment, which is the real cultivation and the original intention of art.

▲ Peasant woman oil painting "Local Dog".

She only has a second-grade education in primary school, never graduated from primary school, and never learned to draw. She is an ordinary rural woman. Because of a car accident, my body left many sequelae and lived a very frugal life.

▲ Peasant female painter.

In her life, she never dreamed that she would have something to do with painting. My daughter promotes free painting teaching for villagers in her hometown. Encouraged by her daughter, she also picked up strokes to play, and drew a peach blossom before and after Zhang Shan. I sold it for 200 yuan online.

▲ The first painting of a peasant woman.

This money means a lot to her. First of all, it will take her at least a week to earn it. Secondly, painting is easier than going to work, but it makes more money, so it is easier to get money. Most importantly, this is her first painting. Some people like it and others are willing to pay for it. For these three reasons, she decided to take part in this free painting study. It would be great if she could support her family by painting. So, I came home from work every day, had dinner, stopped sitting in front of the TV and began to learn painting with the villagers. When she comes back, she will continue painting before she finishes, sometimes until the early hours of the morning. After painting like this for a month, she has a wonderful feeling about painting.

▲ Peach blossoms painted by peasant women.

At that time, peach blossoms were in full bloom, and there were peach blossoms in front of the mountain and behind the house. She found that she had a special feeling when painting peach blossoms, so she painted peach blossoms every day. At first, the peach blossoms she painted were posted on the Internet. Everyone mistook it for a famous artist's work and didn't believe it was an oil painting by a 48-year-old peasant woman who had never studied painting.

▲ Peach blossom series painted by peasant women.

As she posted more and more pictures on the Internet, she found that her peach blossoms were very similar to those painted by a person, with the same charm and style. That man is the famous Zhou Chunya, who auctions more than 300 million paintings every year and once ranked first in the Hurun Art List. Some people even think that the peach blossom she painted is even more beautiful than Zhou Chunya's famous painting "Peach Blossom at the Beginning" (see the picture below), which sold for13.57 million yuan. As a result, she became famous overnight and became an online celebrity.

▲ Zhou Chunya sold13.57 million paintings "Peach Blossom at the Beginning".

Comparing her paintings with Zhou Chunya's on the Internet, some people think that someone is manipulating and speculating behind the scenes, because someone has published two related articles to assist this incident. As a result, two unrelated people also fell into this whirlpool. Fortunately, neither side came forward or participated in the voice. Therefore, the debate did not come to a conclusion, whether she painted well or Zhou Chunya painted well.

▲ Colorful Lake, a peach blossom landscape series in Zhou Chunya.

But this also leads to a topic outside the painting, which seems to be everyone's pain point. No matter how well a peasant woman paints, she can't become a work of art, because she hasn't studied systematically, that is to say, she doesn't even know what oil painting is, so how can she draw any elegant works of art? This prejudice is contempt for the grassroots. In their eyes, grass roots can't be close to art. They can only draw peasant paintings, but they can't create elegant art. Secondly, it is netizens who question them. The same peach blossom oil painting, one of her paintings only sold to 200 yuan, and one of Zhou Chunya's paintings sold to13.57 million. Why is the peach blossom painted by the peasant woman more beautiful than that painted by Zhou Chunya, but the price is so low? Is it because there is no fame and status? Or does it have no artistic value in itself?

▲ Peach blossoms painted by peasant women.

In this regard, some experts believe that this question is not difficult to answer, just like a primary school graduate and a doctor who came back from studying in Germany. Their wages naturally vary greatly. In addition, in terms of artistic value, the two cannot be compared. One is unprofessional, peasant woman doodles, and there is not much artistic value. This is a work of art. Some people even say that her peach blossom was copied from Zhou Chunya. However, I have seen her sketch photos and peach blossoms in front of the mountain and behind the house, and I know whether the expert's words are pertinent.

▲ The peasant woman is painting.

She is not only popular online, but also offline. Many people in the village came to visit her, but she was not good at words. There are more and more people coming, and she doesn't know what to do with it, so she has to hide for a while and run to find her daughter. There she suddenly quieted down from the noise and the painting became more interesting. Soon, a curator of China Academy of Fine Arts held a solo exhibition "Peach Blossom Lane" for her at the age of 49, which attracted the attention of painting circles.

▲ Peach blossom series painted by peasant women.

At the exhibition, she wrote a sentence like this: "I never thought I could draw, but some people like it and are willing to pay." There is an English version below Chinese.

▲ The peasant woman painter "Peach Blossom Lane" exhibition site.

Now more and more people like her paintings, and painting has been integrated into her life. She is Wang Zhenfeng from Maqiuer Village, Wanjia Town, pingdu city, Qingdao. (Text | Chen Hongbiao | From the Internet)