He is a master of arts and crafts in Beijing and a representative inheritor of the third generation of metal forging.
Today, he is known as the first person in today's metal forging technology, contact with metal forging process design for more than fifty years, he dedicated his life to the inheritance and development of metal forging skills, based on traditional craftsmanship, he learned hundreds of masters, bold innovation, continuous improvement, in his own way to create "Meng's Gold Art".
The works he designed are all through the integration of metal forging technology, painting technology, and sculpture technology, whether it is a small work or a masterpiece, it has reached the point of handiness for him, the shape is accurate, the work is vivid, and the god is both beautiful.
His achievements have promoted the perfect combination of Eastern and Western aesthetics and Western art. This issue of Ziya Boy Fun Craftsman Observation tells you about the life experience of Master Meng Deren, the first person in today's metal forging technique.
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In 1943, Meng Deren was born in Beijing, from a young age began to contact the aesthetics of crafts, and developed a strong interest in learning, in 1965, Meng Deren graduated from the Beijing School of Arts and Crafts special major, then in the school Meng Deren has been interested in metal forging, after graduation Meng Deren did not leave the school, but continued to stay in school to study ivory carving, but also had a short period of teaching experience.
In 1973, Meng Deren was invited to enter the Beijing Metal Crafts Factory and began to engage in metal craft design and production, this opportunity also laid a good foundation for Meng Deren, and also laid the groundwork for him to engage in metal forging skills in the future.
In 1985, Meng Deren studied at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts because of his excellent performance and the prominence of his works, during which time, Meng Deren also won many awards and began to have small achievements, more and more people became very interested in him, and in 1989, he was rated as a senior arts and crafts artist.
On the road of metal forging technology, Meng Deren constantly groping, he wants to explore a way that belongs to himself, in the metal forging technology, he has his own unique ideas and concepts, in the design of the work, he wins the strengths of hundreds of families, continuous integration, through its own craft characteristics to continuously improve, in the creation of art practice to continuously summarize experience, bold innovation.
In 2005, Master Meng Deren was rated as the first-class master of Arts and Crafts in Beijing, in 2006, he was hired by a Chinese association as the chief designer, and in the same year, Meng Deren attracted wide attention because of the vivid image of metal forging skills, for a time, Meng Deren was specially hired by the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts Sculpture Mural Series Production Base as the chief senior expert and craft director.
On the road of technical forging skills for forty or fifty years, Master Meng Deren has been constantly innovating on the basis of traditional forging skills, and he has dedicated his life to metal forging skills, and in this skill, he has not been imitating tradition, but has achieved innovation that most of us cannot imagine.
He won the strengths of all the families, with his own ideas and thinking to boldly innovate different crafts, on the basis of tradition, Master Meng Deren will be the court gold art, painting and sculpture of the three integration, the creation of his own "Meng Jin Art".
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The Meng's golden art founded by Meng Deren is very different from the previous ones, which itself has been separated from the traditional metal forging technique, and he has perfected and innovated this technique, the most typical feature is its bone forming.
Each of their works gives full play to the characteristics of metal and the texture of metal itself, and it is very difficult to achieve this requirement, and looking back, basically no one can achieve such an achievement.
Of course, Meng's gold art is not only different from the previous metal forging skills, it is more pursuit of the precision of the shape, vivid and expressive, let people see this thing at the first glance to feel that this is true, vivid, but beautiful, and finally form a fine, fine, thick, qualitative, elegant five artistic characteristics combined, in order to meet the requirements of Meng's gold art.
Master Meng Deren's reputation has long been well-known at home and abroad, and his works have been recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.
In 2006, Master Meng Deren also specially designed a bronze relief mural for the Buddhist Association of China, "Illumination of a Thousand, Beauty of Inaction", which made many people admire the talent and creative skills of Master Meng Deren.
With Meng Deren's understanding of metal forging skills, coupled with continuous innovation, his works have gradually entered the eyes of the public, and more and more works have been revealed, such as Master Meng Deren's "War Horse Long Roar", which is mainly based on copper forging skills in technology, and the craftsmanship of which is integrated into the strength of hundreds of families.
Enamel filigree process, filigree inlay process, floral decoration engraving process, these complicated processes have long been handy for Master Meng Deren, and the work "War Horse Long Roar" has created the first place in the comprehensive process of metal craftsmanship.
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The work that is included in the Guinness Book of World Records is the masterpiece of Master Meng Deren,"The Great Copper Pot," which is completely a visual feast, the height of the large copper pot is 3.18 meters, the length is 4.58 meters, and the proportion of the appearance alone is shocking to people, because the capacity of the pot is called the king of the pot.
In 2012, Master Meng Deren's great work "Dragon Teng jiuzhou" turned out to be a success, and many people should know that the inlaid treasure large silver plate of "Dragon Teng jiuzhou" uses the traditional metal forging technique of the Beijing court.
During the period, the process is also complicated, to go through more than 30 sets of processes such as forging, hammering, engraving, shaping, welding, pressing, gold plating, etc., each process is purely handmade, which is very challenging to people's endurance and concentration.
In the production process, a process error will return to the first step to start again, the weight of the large silver plate of the treasure is 2 kg, the height of the large silver plate is 25mm, the diameter is 365mm, just look at the appearance has made many people marvel, unbelievable.
The front of the silver plate with seawater cloud pattern, Fukuyama Shouhai as the background, but also to people's visual shock, carved high relief nine divine dragons, the back and flat 8 groups of two dragons play beads happy to meet the ornament, in order to make the work both divine shape, indispensable decorative filling, the large silver plate around the in turn inlaid with red agate, lapis lazuli, turquoise, a total of 60 very valuable gemstones.
After the completion of the production of the large silver plate, many enthusiasts who are interested in the metal forging technique have come to observe and learn, and for many people, the work of the large silver plate is very impressive to them, and every place of the large silver plate is portrayed in an extremely vivid way.
Master Meng Deren for each pair of works, the design requirements are very strict, but also put the design in the first place, with copper and other metals as the material, with metal forging technology as the means, the creation of the work is novel and unique, but also contains a deep cultural connotation.
Over the years, Master Meng Deren has been insisting on his work, and has also continuously taught experience and methods to many lovers of metal forging skills, and under the inheritance of Master Meng Deren, there are constantly new people standing up.
Master Meng Deren used his own hands to make a different work, in a hammer, his hearing gradually disappeared, but he has also been on the road of metal forging technology, for the metal forging craft inheritance and development of a lifetime of energy.
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