folk painting of a chinese festive is deemed to be the type of folk art known as "primitive" or "naïve." Each painting is designed by a known folk artist. The seemingly simple shapes and bright colors on the paintings might suggest rudimentary drawing and coloring skills to the uninitiated. I can assure you it is not so. The illustration is basic and raw but composed brilliantly, in both the intellectual and visual sense. muted colors - not boring pastels, by any means, but subtle tints and shades. They tend to have more crispness and symmetry and a feeling of quiet akin to the mild stillness of a gently rippling lake. Their mood tends toward depictions of elegant natural and manmade beauty and serenity