Talking about the style pursuit of jade carving art

In today's jade carving world, it may not be too difficult to become a first-class craftsman, but to be on a higher level and become a veritable master is not so simple. In fact, the difference between a master and a craftsman is that the masters show a very distinct and unique artistic style in their own works of art; while the craftsmen have mastered the skilled techniques, their works are mostly imitations, repetitions of predecessors or presenters. The technique is hard to see your own unique artistic style. The true master, Bianhua, must have his own unique artistic style based on his extensive knowledge. The establishment of artistic style depends on its own artistic wisdom and artistic talents, relying on the unique insights into art, and relying on the unique experience and feelings of life and nature. All of this is inseparable from inheritance and innovation.

Style is the symbol of the achievement of a higher artistic level, and also a symbol of the artist's maturity. The style has a time style, a national style, and also a genre style and a personality style. How does this kind of one not be confused with that one; how can this one not be confused with that one, and there must be no style and pursuit of style. In the philosophical sense, without personality, there is no commonality. A jade carving person must truly complete the leap and sublimation from the "artisan" to the "master". A jade carving work must truly withstand the scouring of the years and will last for a long time. It must have cast a unique aesthetic orientation and artistic interest of the creator; A clear personal imprint of the creator.

Many reasons for the formation of jade carving style

First of all, Chinese jade carvings have a long history with Chinese civilization. The social structure of the Chinese, the economic life of the Chinese, the natural environment of the Chinese, the customs and customs of the Chinese, and the cultural traditions have marked the jade carving. The most important gene that has been entrusted to the art of jade carving through the Chinese jade culture that has been going on for thousands of years is the character and spirit of this nation. It shows great stability and inheritance, which profoundly affects the development of jade carving art and the formation of jade carving style.

Moreover, jade carving design as a special spiritual product, the creator's character, temperament, endowment, talent, and psychology will naturally be projected into the work. In the process of jade carving design, the creators have materialized their own personality characteristics and cognitive principles in the works they have created.

Third, the diversity of jade carving styles also comes from the diversification of aesthetic needs. Different eras, different regions, and different appreciation subjects have caused a great variety of aesthetic needs, which in turn stimulates and promotes the formation of different artistic styles.

Jade carvings of different historical periods have different temperament and pulse. The simplicity of the prehistoric jade, the elegant dignity of the Shang Zhou jade, the splendid and magnificent of the warring jade, the vivid and unrestrained jade of the Han Dynasty, the plumpness of the jade in the Tang Dynasty, the gracefulness of the jade in the Song Dynasty, the boldness of the jade in the Yuan Dynasty, and the jade of the Ming and Qing Dynasties Jirui Folk, it can be said that the splendour of the jade works of the past is not only an objective record of the development of Chinese politics, thought, culture and productive forces for thousands of years, but also a vivid manifestation of the evolution of the ancient people's ideas, lifestyles and aesthetic consciousness. Among them, we can also see the continuous inheritance and development of the jade carving art style in the long history.

In the contemporary era, the jade carving industry has achieved unprecedented development, and there are four schools of the North School, the Shanghai School, the South School, and the Yang School. The North School’s Zhuang is a generous and rigorous; the Shanghai School’s fullness, sleekness and exquisiteness; Exquisite and beautiful, dignified and quaint; the Nanpai's finely crafted, simple and expressive, also each stand in the distinctive jade carving in different distinct styles.

The artistic connotation formed by the style of jade carving works

The artistic style is like a mirror. It can reflect the face of an era, and it can also reflect the artistic talent and cultivation of the jade people. The establishment of artistic style is not only the grasp of "surgery", but also depends on the understanding of "rationality". The Saitama people mastered the skills of Saitama and only walked halfway through the road.

The current jade carving industry can be described as a flowering and horrible weather. A while ago, some people even used the "jade carving fierce" to describe the market situation; but another obvious problem was also highlighted, that is, blindly follow the trend, imitate, copy, the cottage version is very dusty, artistic lazy, homogenous, Popular, speculative, tricky, and shortcuts abound, which undoubtedly reduces and eliminates the taste of jade carving art. I think this is a big issue that must be highly valued and solved in the healthy development of the jade carving industry.

Style is the life of jade carving art. "Jade is not awkward, not a device", the "art" of jade carving art is the beauty of the shape of the work, and "surgery" is the skill used to realize "art". Only the constant innovation of "art" and "skill" will lead to the formation of a unique style that does not fall behind. In terms of innovation, Haipai jade carving has always been the trend leader of the national jade carving. Today, in addition to inheriting the fine traditional craftsmanship, jade carvings emphasize the “design elements”. The essence of Shanghai style lies in inheriting tradition and not sticking to tradition, that is, eclecticism, focusing on new creations, pursuing creativity and ingenuity. "The stone of the mountain can attack the jade", and the increase of the "taken" component is not a copy, but a broad vision, an inclusive mind to make a reasonable choice, to integrate, and to combine with its own characteristics, for my use.

"Art" is especially concerned with the establishment of personal style, as much as possible, and not to be open-minded. As much as possible to discover and innovate the beauty of the form of jade carvings and the beauty of jade, full of distinct personality characteristics. "Art" is a method, a skill, there is no "skill" that can not be imitated, once it is mastered, there is no secret, it is really difficult to imitate the artist's artistic thinking and the connotation of the work. A piece of work, leaving the pursuit of unique style, skill and skill, can only be the same thing lacking artistic soul, it is impossible to achieve the artistic realm and artistic value. At the level of "surgery", what we need is fine design, skillful use, "complex" as "simplified", and "simplified" as "fine", so that the works are far from craftsmanship and beauty. Use a unique style to activate each piece of jade. Just as I pursued in the Chinese Contemporary Arts and Crafts Biennial, "Digital" and "Small" interaction, "Jane" as "Xiang", "Jing" as God; "Traditional" and "Simplified" "True" is love, "Italian" is the realm.

Building your own artistic style is like setting up your own brand. Here, it is not allowed to be lazy, not to be hypocritical. The kind of ignorance and even ignorance of hype can only be sensationalism and self-deception. The kind of stuff that is patchworked by others, and its name can only be said to be an opportunistic trick.

The style is not pretending, the style reflects the creator's personality and artistic talent; the style is not arbitrary, unscrupulous, and the style is based on cultural heritage and theory.

Innovative ingredients formed by jade carving art style

Jade carving is a traditional art category. In terms of innovation, Haipai jade carving has always been the trend leader in the national jade carving industry. The traditional routine often brings invisible shackles to the creators, making the jade carving art lack artistic personality. In addition to inheriting the fine traditional craftsmanship, modern jade carvings must emphasize the “design elements”, that is, focus on the creation of art, the pursuit of creative ingenuity, and the unique style. The Haipai jade carving is a combination of specific humanities and geographical factors. On the one hand, it inherits the traditional jade carving technique, on the one hand, it absorbs the essence of foreign culture, and finally forms the artistic characteristics of jade carving that is beautiful and different.

Objectively speaking, many of us today are faced with the problem of how to establish their own artistic style. In this regard, I feel that there are three prerequisites that must be resolved.

First, before studying the establishment of artistic style, we must first have the paradigm of artistic thinking, that is, to establish a unique understanding and perception of the individual's jade materials, themes, shapes, and so on. Simply imitating, repeating the excellence of predecessors or others, lack of research and thinking, at most, create a first-class craftsman, and not a master. The style comes from an in-depth understanding of jade culture; a comprehensive understanding of the humanistic tradition; a full understanding of social life; a beautiful pursuit of nature, these are the basic elements that give life and connotation to art. Constantly examining ourselves and improving ourselves will be able to develop artistic wisdom, in order to see the true meaning of "beauty", and to raise the awareness of artistic style issues to a rational level.

Second, style depends on distinctive artistic performance. Innovation and breakthrough are the key. The "rationality" of innovation and breakthrough lies in abandoning the inherent rigid rules, injecting new ways of artistic thinking, and using new artistic concepts and new forms of expression to show new development space.

Third, the performance of the style should reflect the essence of jade culture, and there must be an artistic soul endowed by the creator. Such a work can be called a "god". If innovation is to be improved, as long as there is a certain talent, it can be done. However, such a style and strictly speaking, it is not the innovation of the highest achievement, and the fine taste can not be separated from the traces of the craftsmen.

The work "Jiangnanchun" is the gold medal of the "Hundred Flowers Award" of China's Arts and Crafts in 2012. In the creation, I am pursuing the purity of the realm of "Easy" while focusing on the purity of the traditional literati, dealing with people, landscapes, trees and pavilions. When Taiwan and other details are emphasized, the artistic experience of “interesting” is emphasized, and the aesthetics of “space” is tried to make the traditional theme have an artistic sense and a sense of the times. In fact, the true pursuit of jade carving art must be the creator's artistic vision, artistic skill, and artistic accomplishment. It must be the cultural intrinsic and artistic essence of jade carving works. The problem of surface recognition and innovation, which is solely engaged in the occurrence of objects, lacks the courage and endurance of “sitting a bench for ten years of coldness”. It is hard to make a quick profit, arrogant and arrogant, and eager to achieve success.

The cultural heritage of the jade carving innovative style

If a jade carving artist wants to establish his own style, artistic style and innovative style, I think that it must be through three cultural foundations, namely: erudition, negation, and achievement.

The so-called erudition is that while learning ancient and modern techniques, we must understand Chinese traditional culture. An excellent jade carving teacher should read a little philosophy, read a little literature, read a little history, and only stand in the realm of a culture to be able to stand in the heights. The nature of the times and the true meaning of artistic development.

The so-called negation is to dare to give up the old self without hesitation, constantly examine yourself, and not smug for the achievements. It is a very painful thing to give up when people have achievements. However, without such painful experience, people can't sink and face the self and the world, and there can be no real progress.

The so-called tree building, that is, to abandon the old concept to seek new development, to establish a theoretical basis of artistic insights, to form their own distinct artistic characteristics. Only when there is no distraction in the heart will there be a light of wisdom, and at this time there will be a tree to be born. Why is there no hope for innovation?

The uniqueness of style is that "there is no one, there must be no two", and the pursuit of style is the highest realm. "Plate body" looks like a single glyph, but it has a patchwork and a sense of charm. If someone envied Zheng Banqiao's achievements and wanted to be famous by imitating his style, then he would definitely walk into a dead end. "Pingqiao body" belongs to "not one, no two." "There is no one," it is its unique artistic value and immortal artistic status; "There is no two" reveals the truth in artistic creation. As the writer Jia Pingwa said: "For the master, you can only learn, can't follow suit."

"Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics" expresses their own personality ideals and noble sentiments in an artistic style that does not conform to the secular aesthetic standards. It is the pursuit of freedom and the contempt and resistance to power. The "Pingqiao body" seems to be "non-legal and non-unique, non-ancient and modern" is also a symbol of breaking free from bondage and freedom of thought and soul. This is the charm of Zheng Banqiao's works. If it is just a simple imitation, it must have its shape and lose its spirit. However, many people do not believe in this principle. Today, when jade carvings are squandered by wealth, many jade carvings are produced in batches according to a mold. Although it was beneficial for a while, it was soon forgotten in the corner. As Marx said: "All values ​​end up with only time. Time will filter out all the works that follow."

In fact, the style, artistic style and innovative style of jade carving artists are often built on the basis of their craft, art and culture. As Lu Yishao, the master of Chinese landscape painting, said: Successful artists must have the skills of “three-point calligraphy, three-point brushwork, and four-point reading” in order to make a difference. It can be seen that cultural components play an important role in the artistic weight. Although jade carving belongs to the category of handicrafts, today's social development requires us jade carving workers to have higher artistic accomplishments and social responsibilities to complete the reconstruction of contemporary jade carving art. For myself, I will study hard, actively explore, and strive to become a jade carving artist with a strong personal artistic style and fight for it.

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