Welcoming Spring Flowers

Painting

Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures

Name/Title

Welcoming Spring Flowers

Entry/Object ID

2019.1.38

Artwork Details

Medium

watercolor (paint), paper (fiber product)

Collection

Andrea and Irv Green Huxian Paintings Collection

Cataloged By

Hensley, Sam

Acquisition

Accession

2019.1

Source or Donor

Green, Andrea, Green, Irv

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Andrea and Irv Green

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Qu Erniu

Role

Painter

Date made

1994

Time Period

20th Century

Place

County

Hu Xian

Country

China

Region

East Asia

Continent

Asia

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Han Chinese

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Other Names and Numbers

Other Names

Name Type

Alternate Title

Other Name

Village Paper Cutting Gathering

Other Numbers

Number Type

Past Accession Number - Donor Initials

Other Number

2019.iag.38

Number Type

Collector's Number

Other Number

AG 38

Dimensions

Height

54.61 cm

Width

77.47 cm

Parts

Count

Accessories

Accessory

Frame

Copyright

Type of License

Exclusive License

Copyright Holder

Qu Erniu

Copyright Date

1994

Copyright Details

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Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Tombstone Label

Label

Welcoming Spring Flowers Qu Erniu (Chinese, act. late 20th century) 1994 Paint on rice paper Gift of Andrea and Irv Green, 2019.1.38

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Before the Lunar New Year Festival, people buy these intricate paper cuttings. Skilled paper cutters travel to nearby villages selling their works for the festival. The cutters work at the inside tables. The outer tables are full of their delicate paper cuttings for sale. Often this kind of traveling market-stand involves several members of the cutter’s family. Qu Erniu, an experienced paper cutter himself, helps any nearby village market that needs a cutter-just to help out, he says, not for pay. Qu Erniu used paper cutting form for his human figures, so they are shorter than their actual height. Like men, women also came to painting through paper cutting with the practice of paper cutting influencing repetition in Huxian paintings.