Sandstone Painting

Hunan
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In recent years, a kind of sandstone painting has emerged in Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China. It uses local colorful sandstone and plant skins and leaves as "pigments", combines the expression techniques of Chinese painting and Western painting, and integrates printmaking, sculpture and bonsai art into one furnace, realistically showing the natural scenery and folk customs of Zhangjiajie, giving people a long aftertaste. Li Junsheng, the founder of sandstone painting, is 20 years old this year. He told reporters that sandstone painting was inspired by an accident. When he was studying painting at a university in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, he worked on a construction site to make a living. In order to make more money, he used pebbles and water-ground fine sandstone to paste on plywood to form some interesting patterns. These "works" are actually selling very well. While sketching in Zhangjiajie, he discovered that the mossy old tree barks and the colorful and easily crushable sand and gravel could all be used as creative materials, creating a new painting genre. Sand and gravel painting has now become one of the must-buy specialties for tourists in Zhangjiajie. There are two museums in Zhangjiajie that offer sand and gravel paintings, one is the Junsheng Sand and Gravel Painting Museum, which originated sand and gravel painting, and the other is Xiuhua Villa. In comparison, Xiuhua's prices are slightly cheaper.

Intangible culture related to the heritage

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