ETHNIC MOTIVES IN THE PAINTING OF YUNNAN PROVINCE ARTISTS (20th -21st CENTURIES)
Ethnocultural motives in the work of Yunnan artists reflect the visual attributes of the ethnic tradition: «enclosing landscape (natural environment)», physical appearance (phenotype), material culture (housing, tools, costume, household utensils, etc.), religious practices (temples, images of gods, objects of worship, rituals, etc.), and social relations (including gender). However, it cannot be argued that, as artists, they are within this tradition, except for the craftsmen who make the folk painting (lubok) jiama and zhimu. Modern professional artists create works in ethnic style using Western oil painting techniques, different from traditional Yunnan ethnic minorities' woodcuts. Yunnan ethnic style in painting since the late 1980s enjoys the support of the Chinese government and is of interest to the global world.