Chen Yu set up a mounting experience class and invited college students to come to the store to experience and study.
The framed characters are drawn on the wall and flattened.
Repair of badly damaged paintings and calligraphy.
Restoring calligraphy and painting requires a deep artistic foundation.
Frame the core.
Chen Yu was busy in the frame shop.
The process of mounting the frame and framing the painting is complete.
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Paint plate on the left hand end, brush in right hand, lightly dipped in paint, brush lightly touching the paper surface, stroke by stroke slowly repairing... In the Ziyitang character painting frame shop, Fuzhou post-90s female framer Chen Yu is busy.
Washing paste, mounting cores, measuring Aya cloth, fixing shafts, fixing frames... A tattered ancient calligraphy painting with its corners, perfectly restored in skillful movements. The framed walls made of solid wood are covered with mottled marks of white paper skin, telling the ingenuity of the framers.
The mounting and restoration of a calligraphy and painting requires 12 to 15 processes. "It's a hard work, you have to be able to withstand it, grind it slowly." Chen Yu said.
Chen Yu grew up with his father Chen Nantong to learn the art of painting and calligraphy mounting restoration. In July 2016, she graduated from the fine arts major of Xiehe College of Fujian Normal University, and immediately registered and established Fujian Ziyitang Culture and Art Co., Ltd., officially taking over the framing business at home.
The picture scroll is broken, the calligraphy and painting are blurred... In the first few years, Chen Yu continued to explore and learn with the help of his father, summed up lessons and experiences in failure, and improved his mounting and restoration skills. Later, she won many awards for her heritage innovation of "traditional mounting pattern restoration" and "combination of new mounting materials with traditional craftsmanship".
"I'm trying to make some new mounting materials." Chen Yu said that in the 2021 Mid-Autumn Festival, she launched a mounting cloth called "Star Sea", "Hanging at home every day is a clean, white scroll, but under the direct sunlight or light, the mounting cloth appears reflective, flashing and flashing, making the picture look gorgeous." ”
The framer is a person who specializes in making "wedding dresses" for calligraphy paintings, which can be called "painting langzhong". A calligraphy and painting, even if the damage is severe, can still come back to life through their hands.
If it is said that framing calligraphy and painting is a craft, restoration requires a deep artistic foundation. When encountering serious damage to calligraphy and painting, it is necessary to repair the work first, at this time, the professional art skills make Chen Yu feel like a fish.
"Some time ago, I received a painting that was broken into several pieces, and I revealed the core of the painting to repair it, only to find that the whole painting had been 'brittled'." In the face of the unexpected situation, Chen Yu did not give up, but carefully and slowly made it up. The restoration was expected to be completed within a week, but it took nearly a month.
In the hand-framed and restoration, Chen Yu carefully felt the charm of each calligraphy and painting, and enjoyed the tranquility and nature of ingenuity.
She also pays special attention to the inheritance, innovation and development of ancestral skills.
Since 2018, Chen Yu has opened a mounting experience class. She not only invited children to come to the store to experience and study, but also brought the art of mounting into the school's interest class, and volunteered to teach primary school students to learn how to make.
"Old craftsmanship has its inherent unique flavor." Chen Yu said that he hopes that through his own efforts, art will penetrate deep into the homes of ordinary people.