Are New Year pictures from the 1980s worth collecting?

New Year paintings are unique to China, one of the most popular folk artworks that exaggerate auspiciousness and peace. So are the New Year paintings of the 1980s valuable for collection? Below is the collection value of the New Year paintings of the 1980s that I have carefully compiled for you. Let’s take a look.

The collection value of New Year paintings in the 1980s

Should have a certain collection value. Questions about the collection value of collectibles have been answered many times. Is it worth collecting? It has both material and spiritual significance. On the one hand, it is a commodity that carries historical, cultural, and artistic information. Its value is unstable and changes with the changes of the fashions and aesthetic tastes of the times. And the overall trend is upward. Take calligraphy and painting as an example. The same painting by Qi Baishi was worth 100 yuan in the 1970s, but now it can reach 300,000 yuan. As for ancient calligraphy and painting, their growth has become even greater over the years.

In modern society, collecting has become an important investment method for people. With relatively low investment and relatively high output, low-risk and high-efficiency cultural relic collection has become increasingly popular among people of insight. Today, as the economy becomes increasingly prosperous, collection is no longer the exclusive preserve of literati, but has gradually become a part of people's economic and spiritual lives.

In history, there are countless people who have become extremely rich by collecting. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, due to the economic development in Jiangnan, a large number of calligraphy and painting connoisseurs emerged, such as Wen Zhengming and his son, Xiang Yuanbian family, Wang Shizhen brothers, Dong Qichang and so on. These collectors were also famous calligraphers and painters. Their collections not only promoted the prosperity of the calligraphy and painting market at that time, but also promoted economic development.

Collectibles are not only wealth, but also a symbol of taste, cultivation, and status. Especially in recent years, many companies have participated in the collection, fully demonstrating the level and charm of modern companies, making them always the object of public attention in the fierce business war.

While collecting changes people’s material lives, it also improves people’s spiritual lives. If we say that to the imperial government, the collection is just a part of the numerous national properties; but to private collectors, each piece has extraordinary significance. Every detail of each collection is clear: the color tone and charm, and the stories and legends about it are well known. Its gain and loss, coming and going, gathering and dispersing are all closely related to you.

Therefore, it makes sense to say that collection can cultivate sentiment and cultivate one's moral character. It requires collectors to have a rational economic mind as well as good artistic accomplishment. In the process of collecting, collectors subtly cultivate themselves into modern people who have a harmonious combination of rationality and sensibility. The collection value of New Year pictures

A reduced sample of New Year pictures is a sample that is reduced and issued in a certain proportion according to the size of the original New Year pictures. The period from the 1950s to the 1980s was the peak period for the publication of New Year pictures in my country. Each publishing unit should bind the various New Year pictures they publish into a volume every year and send them to Xinhua Bookstores at the provincial, municipal and county levels free of charge as samples for promoting New Year pictures. There are as many miniatures of New Year pictures as there are New Year pictures published by publishing houses every year. The smaller ones will be published in one volume, and the larger ones can be five or more. Most of the miniature New Year pictures are produced once a year, and the number of pages is also different. More than a dozen pages, sometimes hundreds of pages. Compared with the publicly released New Year pictures, the paper of the New Year picture miniatures is more delicate, usually using coated paper or textured paper, which were relatively expensive at the time. Common New Year picture miniatures are 32-format and 16-format. The inner pages are mostly single-sided color printing, and their expressions are rich and colorful, including painting, photography, calligraphy, paper-cutting, etc. In terms of binding form, it can be divided into two types: bound and loose-leaf. Loose-leaf samples are more likely to be lost and difficult to preserve. Miniature samples of loose-leaf New Year paintings that have survived to this day and are intact are particularly valuable.

The themes of the miniature New Year pictures are colorful and all-encompassing, including national leaders, motherland construction, heroic models, dramas and movies, scenic spots, historical stories, rare animals, flowers and trees, celebrity calligraphy and paintings, etc., reflecting all Things that the common people like are in line with their aesthetic tastes; New Year picture miniatures are very beautifully printed, and their production quality is unmatched by ordinary books. For example, "New Year Pictures, Wall Calendars, and New Year Pictures" published by Beijing Photography Publishing House in 1985 "Sample", which has reduced the size of exquisite photographic works such as "Zhongnanhai Scenery" and "Capital Scenery". "Shanghai Traditional Chinese New Year Paintings in Miniatures" published by Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House in 1986 brings together the calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting works of more than 60 artists from past dynasties, including Mi Fu, Su Dongpo, Zheng Banqiao, and Wu Hufan. Its printing quality is exquisite and its practical value (appreciation, copying) It is extremely rare to have such a high value; miniature New Year paintings have a small circulation and are rare in existence. New Year picture miniatures are printing samples for publicity and ordering purposes. Most of them are given by publishing houses to familiar publishers. Therefore, there is no printing volume or pricing on the miniatures. The printing volume is extremely limited, ranging from hundreds to many. Thousands of copies. Once the almanac and New Year pictures are released, these miniatures will have no use value to the publishers, and most of them will be disposed of at will. Therefore, the ones that can be preserved intact are very limited, especially the miniatures from the """ period. It is even more rare.

In recent years, reduced samples of New Year paintings have been favored by collectors, and their transaction prices have risen sharply.

It is reported that in the collection market, most of the high-value miniature New Year paintings are from the 1950s. Those from the """ period also sell for a lot of money, while the value from the 1980s is much lower. For example, a reduced sample of New Year paintings from Tianjin Fine Arts Publishing House in 1959 is priced as high as 800 yuan online, a reduced sample of New Year paintings from Hubei People's Publishing House in 1966 is priced at 250 yuan, and a reduced sample of New Year paintings from Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House in 1985 is priced at 60 yuan. The above-mentioned reduced samples are all in average condition, and if they are in good condition, the price will be higher.

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