Zhejiang Yueqing boxwood carving "Welcome to Beijing" Photo by Hu Yibing
(New Year grassroots) Zhejiang "Shou Artist" fancy creation of artwork to help the Beijing Winter Olympics
Wenzhou, February 7 (Xinhua) -- (Fan Yubin, Xu Qinwei, Fu Tingyi, Wang Changquan) Building dreams of ice and snow, together to the future. In recent days, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics have triggered the creative enthusiasm of "shou artists" in Yueqing, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, who have ingeniously created different forms of art such as Boxwood carving, stone carving, paper-cutting, and seals in Yueqing to cheer for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Yueqing boxwood carving is the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, the Asia-Pacific handicraft master, Chinese arts and crafts master Yu Jinshun carefully created "Welcome to Beijing", "Skiing", "Ice Dancer" and other Yueqing boxwood carving works, expressing his blessings for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Stone sculpture "Ice and Snow Competition" Courtesy of the interviewee
"During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, one of my Yueqing boxwood carvings, "China Oriental Shen Yun", was selected to appear in the conference room of the head of the Chinese sports delegation." Yu Jinshun introduced that in order to celebrate the Beijing Winter Olympics, he specially created three Pieces of Yueqing Boxwood Carving.
"The Beijing Winter Olympics have attracted worldwide attention and are also a beautiful symbol of the Chinese dream." Yu Jinshun said that he wanted to convey this pride through his works. Since 2013, he has fully invested in the Yueqing boxwood carving "Chinese Dream" group carving series project, shaping nearly 100 characters of different nationalities, different occupations and different historical periods.
Color collage paper cut works week is a picture provided
Yu Jinshun showed three works that took him nearly two months to create, the boxwood carving works are cleverly conceived and vividly shaped, the work "Welcome to Beijing" is centered on the runners on the run, the torch, the five rings, the words BEIJING and other elements show the main theme of peace and friendship of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the works "Skiing" and "Ice Dancers" interpret the state of the athletes' full dedication to the event and carry forward the Olympic spirit with dynamic and realistic images.
Pan Xicun, a representative inheritor of zhejiang provincial intangible cultural heritage and a master of arts and crafts in Zhejiang Province, tailored a new stone sculpture "Ice and Snow Competition" for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
"This work was completed more than a month ago before the Beijing Winter Olympics, and it is in the form of skeleton carving, circular carving, high relief and so on." Pan Xicun introduced that the work "Ice and Snow Competition" is one of his sports series works, using Shoushan Hibiscus Stone creation, the whole work looks crystal clear, and the theme of ice and snow sports complements each other, about 35 × a stone about 32 centimeters high has been carefully laid out, the Speed Skating, Curling, Snowmobile, Freestyle Skiing and other sports of the Beijing Winter Olympics skillfully integrated into one stone, natural and pleasing to the eye.
"I'm a watchman and want to leave a special memory with my work." Pan Xicun said that in order to make the character sports image more realistic, he spent a lot of effort, looked up a lot of Winter Olympic project information on the Internet, and conceived for a long time before starting to create.
On the opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Zhou Isi, a master of arts and crafts in Zhejiang Province, shared his newly created color collage paper-cut works on the online platform, and many people admired after seeing it, "This work looks very novel and modern." ”
"I used the less common form of colorful collage paper cut-out to create, both as a special gift for the Spring Festival and as a celebration of the Beijing Winter Olympics." Zhou Isil said that he combined abstraction and realism, drew the icons of different projects of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, cut the character modeling, the Olympic five rings, the "winter" character modeling, etc. with different colors of paper, and then collaged, which took about 3 days to complete.
Seal engraving work on the theme of the Winter Olympics Gao Gongbo courtesy of Gao Gongbo
Between the inches, the weather is endless. In the skillful hands of Gao Gongbo, a master of Asian-Pacific handicrafts and Chinese arts and crafts, a series of Seal Seals of the Winter Olympic Games were created, embodying the high magic cloth white between the calligraphy and the square inches through the blade, combining calligraphy and engraving, conveying the long tradition and vivid charm spanning thousands of years, and echoing the concept of the emblem of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games "China Seal", reflecting the "City of the Two Olympics" and the Olympic cultural heritage.
"The sports icons of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are seal engravings and Chinese characters that echo the emblem of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games 'China Seal', and once again contribute 'Chinese cultural symbols' to the Olympic Movement." Gao Gongbo said. (End)