The Year of the Tiger in the Lunar Calendar, the Year of kings and the year of hope, is coming. On the occasion of retiring the old and welcoming the new, a group of Shanghai cultural and creative products of Duoyunxuan's "Shangxin" have attracted people's attention. This is a set of two sets of "Yin Hu Add Wings" Purple Sand Pot in the Year of the Tiger, which is innovatively launched by combining the efforts of Zheng Xinyao, Ding Shenyang, Zhang Yongqian and other famous Artists of the Shanghai School. The materials and utensils used in purple sand are classics, but what is unusual is to inject the spirit of Shanghai art into the originality of purple sand works, making the purple sand pot surpass arts and crafts and rise to the level of art. Such a new spring cultural and creative attempt has found a path worth learning for the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional culture.
This set of two pots, namely the golden wing pot symbolizing wealth and the love wing pot symbolizing love, the former uses the improved "Jade Pillar Kettle", and the latter uses the Qing Dynasty Chen Mansheng's classic pot type "Half Moon Kettle". The shapes of the pot button sculptures are specially designed by Zhang Yongqian, a master of arts and crafts and a famous ceramic sculpture in Shanghai, and on one side of the pot body are engraved the book "Yin Hu Add Wings" by Ding Shenyang, chairman of the Shanghai Calligraphers Association, and on the other side is engraved with the painting "Yin Hu Tu" by Zheng Xinyao, chairman of the Shanghai Artists Association. Famous artists jointly named, tiger pot shines.
"Yinhu Wing Pot" of "Golden Wing Pot"
Hu Xiaomang, chief planner, told reporters that the technical level of Yixing's purple sand pot has nothing to say, but Haipai purple sand can use art and craftsmanship to better tell a Chinese story, and also present a new style that is different from Yixing purple sand pot with unique creativity. Wealth and love are both complementary, like a tiger adding wings to the fullness of life. The double pot of "Yin Hu Tian Wing" was born from this. "In the two years under the epidemic, many people's economic conditions have been impacted, I want to borrow the golden wing pot to make a mouth, pray for people's life in the next year, and also use the love wing pot to convey the voice of love and true feelings in the world." The two pots have been specially anthropomorphized in the sculpture shapes of tigers and other animals, and the face can see the vivid expression, but also in order to be able to empathize with more people. ”
"Yinhu Wing Pot" of "Love Wing Kettle"
In traditional purple clay pots, the buttons set to remove the lid are usually smaller and more functional than decorative. The unique feature of "Yin Hu Tian Wing" Double Pot is that it pioneered the integration of double beast sculptures into the pot button. In this way, the pot button part becomes a relatively independent sculptural artwork, and the pot body is like the base of the sculpture, and when it is used, it can be transformed into a pot. This is a bold breakthrough that greatly enhances the artistry of the purple sand pot.
Among them, the golden wing pot is nicknamed "Tiger Money Leopard", and its pot button sculpture is a tiger and leopard double male, hugging each other, happy on the eyebrows, such as obtaining the most precious treasure. The gold leopard body is painted with 24k gold and copper coin shaped leopard spots, which means that the stones are turned into gold, and the source of wealth is widespread.
Nicknamed "I Tiger U", the love wing pot is carved with a male and female double tiger, snuggling affectionately, indulging in it, as if embracing everything. The forehead of the male tiger depicts the word "king" in 24k gold, highlighting the noble elegance and the style of the king.
The "Golden Wing Kettle" button of "Yinhu Wing Pot"
"Yinhu Wing Pot" of "Love Wing Kettle" button
The beauty of these two sculptures lies in the fact that between the resemblance and the dissimilarity, the head is an animal, the body curve is similar to that of a person, and the hands around them gradually merge into one, giving people endless reverie, expanding the tension through contemporary thinking, no matter from which angle to appreciate is an artistic enjoyment. They are highly artistic in life, and they also integrate art into life, which is an innovation for daily life.
Although he has previously created countless humanist purple sand sculptures, Zhang Yongqian also admitted to reporters that for the shape of the "Yin Hu Tian Wing" pot button sculpture, he did not feel less nervous, and even wanted to give up at one time - he repeatedly overturned and re-came more than 100 drafts, after countless abstract deconstructions, it took four months before it was finalized.
Zhang Yongqian in sculpture
The calligraphy on the double pot is "Yin Hu Tian Wing", one is cursive, and the other is Lishu. Both of these books are the types that Ding Shenyang is best at. The work of this calligrapher highlights a "love" word, and the words are full of power and freedom between the lines. His cursive works combine the lines of the seal with the twists of the north monument, the air is clear and solid, the bones are full of gods, and exude a smooth and flowing talent. And his lishu works are clumsy and naïve, simple and natural, not exaggerated, not stagnant, thick and vast.
In Ding Shenyang's view, this group of pots is very meaningful, spreading the art of calligraphy and painting through purple sand art, so that Haipai art can enter thousands of households, enter daily life, and integrate into the tea art of the people. "Writing and painting in the art of purple sand is a tradition that has always existed. In the past, Tang Yun, Cheng Shifa and other old gentlemen have left their own pen and ink on the pot, and such a pot is also more sparkling and loved by the public. ”
Ding Shenyang told reporters that this time he wrote several drafts in two kinds of books, the book is relatively thick, and the cursive is more flexible. He has written calligraphy for many zodiac inscriptions before, and he frankly said that the "tiger" character has more strokes, which also brings more changes to writing, "there is a kind of fun in writing, and it is very pleasant to write."
Ding Shenyang in calligraphy creation
Zheng Xinyao, who painted "Yin Hu Tu" for the double pot, has painted the Zodiac for the sixth consecutive year, and there are also stick figures. "Yin Hu Tu" he deliberated again and again, using five strokes, and the joke really couldn't be simplified anymore. Zheng Xinyao told reporters that painting animals and painting people is actually the same truth, to draw the spirit of the spirit, the god seems to be more important than the shape. For example, the characteristics of chickens are male, the characteristics of dogs are spiritual, the characteristics of pigs are rounded, the characteristics of rats are clever, the characteristics of cattle are endurance, and as for tigers, it is necessary to draw "mighty" instead of "fierce". "Although these two words are only one word apart, they are enough for you to think about it for a long time." Zheng Xinyao said that if the tiger is painted exactly like the tiger in real life, then the camera can complete the things without the painter bothering. This "Tiger Tiger Shengwei" tiger, collecting pictures and materials, conceiving how to paint, about three months, painting more than twenty shapes, the final draft is "the tiger turned back and whistled".
Although he usually uses markers in his creations, Zheng Xinyao deliberately chose to paint this tiger with a brush this time, only because the marker pen lacks expressiveness, and the brush has a rich change given by thick and dry wet. The tiger's tail was drawn with a dry brush, and after more than ten consecutive attempts, the artist himself was finally selected to be relatively satisfied with one, which could show the elasticity and dynamics of the tiger's tail. Out of the five strokes, the doorway doesn't stop there. Why do the two folds in the middle of the tiger's neck take up two of the five strokes? Zheng Xinyao said that through observing the tiger, he found that only one stroke expressed only wrinkles, and two lines indicated that the tiger skin was tattooed, and there was a feeling of tiger skin.
The tiger painted in five strokes only had one leg, and did not see the word "king" on its head or the beard of its mouth. This is obviously a representation of the object rather than a reproduction of the object, simple is not simple, leaving a long aftertaste.
Zheng Xinyao and his Yin Hu
It is worth mentioning that the works of three famous artists are gathered on a pot, and how to get the most perfect and proper presentation from the elements to the whole is also a matter of difficult thinking. For example, Zhang Yongqian's original sculpture was adapted to the height of the purple sand pot button, and what kind of purple sand pot type and size best matched, and finally tested more than a dozen samples of purple sand pots of different proportions to select the most coordinated one. For another example, when Zheng Xinyao's "Yin Hu Tu" was sampled on the pot, the tiger's body looked shortened, because the teapot had its own curvature, and the tiger's body was appropriately elongated to see the same as the original.
The combination of Haipai art and Yixing purple sand has a history of more than 100 years, which has promoted the production of purple sand pots to show a trend of scale, serialization and high-quality products, and also converged into a sea scenery with quality life, containing urban humanistic elegance. Today, "Yin Hu Adds Wings" has laid a new chapter for the Haipai Purple Sand Art Book, and also reminds people that the attempt to integrate innovative consciousness and ingenuity quality should never stop.
Author: Fan Xin
Edit: Jiang Fang
Editor-in-Charge: Xuanjing
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