Original title: Zhao Nan, the inheritor of the young Peking Opera color sculpture face mask - exploring a new path of "self-hematopoiesis" of intangible cultural heritage
Reporter Of this newspaper, Chen Xueliang
"The blue-faced Dou Erdun steals the imperial horse, and the red-faced Guan Gongzhan Changsha." When it comes to Facebook, many people can hum a few words, but they know very little about the deeper Facebook culture. In fact, Facebook, like Peking Opera, is also a complex science.
Born in 1989 in the Peking Opera family, Zhao Nan learned art with her father Zhao Yongqi since childhood, she is not only good at drawing traditional craft faces, but also on the basis of retaining the cultural core, making traditional intangible cultural heritage a part of the trend life. "If the face can only be made into crafts and placed in a brocade box, even if it is exquisite, it will one day lose its vitality because it is not needed." In Zhao Nan's view, intangible cultural heritage is not only a skill to be protected, but also an art worth carrying forward, and only by integrating into contemporary life can we obtain the driving force of self-hematopoiesis.
Cultural collision paints "a dream of pear garden"
Walking into the Ninth Floor of the Capital Wing Garden, a carefully created art space gives people a unique sense of heaven. At the entrance, the mythical and legendary "God of True Wealth" Zhao Gongming and the Black Tiger Mount greeted the visiting guests, the copper coin pattern on the face revealed their identities, and the "one hand good card" in the black tiger's palm conveyed good wishes. Step by step in the house, there are facial elements everywhere, but it does not look old-fashioned. The American-style seats are old objects from the warehouse, and the wall painting behind the seats is inspired by the European relief "The Man Who Chases the Wind", and is integrated with the basic spectrum of the Peking Opera face "Three Tile Faces", and even the wooden picture frame on the wall is painted by the owner's own color. Eastern and Western elements meet dramatically here, and are reconciled and unified in color and display.
This pop-up space, named "Pear Garden One Dream", is a corner of the "Ideal Country" painted by Zhao Nan himself. "The scene is also part of the work of art, and I hope that it is a space with a sense of ceremony, through which the possible combination of facebook and life can be displayed, and the modern art and entertainment methods about facebook will be passed on to everyone, so that facebook can be closer to ordinary people." Zhao Nan's "Pear Garden Dream" in his heart is a completely immersive aesthetic space.
She is a non-hereditary heir, art lecturer, interior designer; she studies Facebook, and is also a Meipai fan... From painting to clothing, from architecture to literature, Zhao Nan draws nourishment between the diverse collisions of cultures and integrates them into his own intellectual genealogy and artistic aesthetics. In May last year, FILA's first new global concept store landed in Wangfujing, and the brand invited Zhao Nan to create a Peking Opera Facebook space in the store and create a tennis-themed facebook. The fusion of Italian elegance and Peking Opera art not only preserves the unique charm of the face itself, but also explains the vitality of sports. Through the linkage between tsinghua innovation workshop and the "Life Pause Button" program, she also cooperated with actor Wang Zhou to launch "Face Lamp". Belgian cultural elements such as the transparent church of the local landmark building and the classic animation image Tintin are integrated into the "lianpo" spectrum of the old peking opera face, and the cross-border works are refreshing.
Establish a professional foundation
"Facebook is very exquisite, not just a casual painting." Although he has created many cross-border works, Zhao Nan knows that professional skills are the foundation of his career.
Drama actors can't do whatever they want when they hook their faces, and what color should be on the faces of the characters has a certain routine, and the jargon is called the spectrum, which is the face. The face mask is mainly used by "net corner", which is commonly known as the flower face, and different colors can show different character personalities. Red indicates loyalty and courage, such as Guan Gong; black means rough and straight, such as Zhang Fei; white means cunning and cunning, such as Cao Cao; blue and green represents a brave and chivalrous green forest good man; in addition, there are gods and ghosts, more gold and silver. "The face mask will also be adjusted according to the basic conditions of the individual, because the actor's face shape is different, and the understanding of the characters in the play is also different, so the drawing method between each actor is different." Zhao Nan said.
On this basis, the Peking Opera color sculpture face mask has become an intangible cultural heritage project in Beijing.
"My father has been doing Facebook professionally since 1984, so my life as a child is all associated with Facebook." When she was in kindergarten, Zhao Nan learned to make mud tires with her father, and when she reached the third or fourth grade of primary school, she tried to draw and fill in. "To make clay face masks, there are more than a dozen processes, and the most difficult thing is to paint." Zhao Nan introduced that Beijing's clay sculpture face is rigorous in composition, smooth in penmanship, and has a sense of contrast with bright colors. Unconsciously imitating and learning around adults allowed her to practice the boy skills in her hand.
In 2012, Master Liu Zengfu passed away, which had a great impact on Zhao Nan's psychology. Liu Zengfu is a physiologist and a titan of Peking Opera, and his research on facial features was recognized by Mei Lanfang as early as 1961, and his book "Peking Opera Face Atlas" is of precious value. "If our younger generation doesn't pass on this skill and culture, it will slowly disappear in the future, and I think this is also something that Mr. Li does not want to see." After deliberation, Zhao Nan quit his original job and opened up his own face art career.
Shouzheng innovation explores the way of inheritance
"What is inheritance? Inheritance is to keep right and innovate, and I especially agree with this sentence. In Zhao Nan's view, no matter how deep the cultural form, if you blindly stick to the rules, the circle will become smaller and smaller, and non-genetic inheritance must explore a new path that can "self-hematopoiesis"; at the same time, it is even more necessary to keep the core of traditional culture, otherwise even the best innovation will lose its meaning.
Recently, in the "Pear Garden One Dream" pop-up space in Wing Yuen, Zhao Nan has put immersive aesthetic experience activities on the agenda. "A thousand creators may have a thousand Sun Wukong in their pens, and the brushstrokes of the lines and the combination of colors reflect the personality characteristics or the emotions of the moment." In the two-hour event, she introduced the colorology in Facebook, the personality of color, and also demonstrated the skills of pen control and drawing. She combines Peking Opera culture and facial aesthetics with the needs of small team building and parent-child aesthetic education to further broaden the application scenarios of facial music.
Inspired by his friends, Zhao Nan also plans to use the spectral style of Peking Opera color sculpture as the code design logic, and integrate it with the "script killing" gameplay to better integrate traditional culture into the trend lifestyle. She uses the IP of traditional Chinese stories and old drama scripts to fuse the classic style of Peking Opera and depict the human growth volume of modern women looking for themselves. Among them, the screenwriter and character image are all handled by Zhao Nan himself.
"For example, I am very interested in the story of Zhong Wuyan in the opera. She had an ugly face, but she had both moral integrity and ability, and helped King Xuan of Qi to revitalize the dynasty. In popular parlance, she is a big heroine who has given up on appearance anxiety, and may derive a script that is very empathetic with modern people. "Being able to leave an impressive work and interact with everyone's thinking makes Zhao Nan full of expectations."
The innovative inheritance of Facebook culture has a long way to go. "Facebook is not an ordinary face makeup, every stroke is meaningful." Zhao Nan strives to make the new appearance of intangible cultural heritage development and integration return to the life of the times and stimulate a steady stream of vitality. (Chen Xueliang)
Editor-in-Charge: Xiao Yun
【Source: Beijing Daily】