Integrating the essence of Chinese porcelain culture and the modern Olympic spirit, displaying Olympic elements on crystal clear porcelain, carrying a unique cultural charm and humanistic feelings! The World-renowned Beijing Winter Olympics are in full swing, and China has become the first country in the world to host the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, once again showing its charm to the world.
The Jiangnan Metropolis Daily all-media reporter learned that the "Wenjun Bottle" created by Bai Ming, an artist from Jiangxi and the director of the Ceramic Art Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, has become the only official gift for the Olympic family of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the International Paralympic Committee.
Winter Olympics Wenjun bottle
"Wenjun Bottle" is based on the traditional Chinese plum bottle type for innovation, the lines pay more attention to beauty, the whole shape is elegant and noble, and the works have the artistic characteristics of white as snow, moist as jade, and transparent as silk. In terms of design, there are both traditional and modern, which highlights the profound cultural connotation of ceramic artist Bai Ming and the artistic ability to integrate things and things.
For the creative concept of "Wenjun Bottle", Bai Ming said that Chinese ceramics have contributed countless exquisite skills and exquisite materials to the world, and also contributed the most systematic in history, and with the development of the times, the aesthetics of utensils that are closely related to life, and people express the most beautiful vision through the shape of utensils. The whole form of the Wenjun bottle is like the appearance of a literati gentleman, standing clean and elegant, showing the gentle and elegant grandeur of Chinese culture. The slender bottle body and flowing lines of the work echo with the elegant, dexterous and rhythmic shapes of ice and snow sports, just like a beautiful dance of life. Among them, the "Winter Olympics Wenjun Bottle" bottle body relief Winter Olympic Emblem, darkly engraved 24 vertical lines, refers to the 24th Winter Olympic Games; "Winter Paralympic Wenjun Bottle" bottle body relief Winter Paralympic Emblem, carved 13 vertical lines, refers to the 13th Winter Paralympic Games, 13 lines for the Yang sculpture design, the two works complement each other, there are consistencies, there are differences in form. The lines of the carved line and the yang carving form a lotus petal shape at the bottom, implying harmony and auspiciousness. The display of the emblems of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is commensurate with the harmony of the overall bottle, reflecting the subtle beauty of Chinese culture. "Wenjun Bottle" is Bai Ming's second cooperation with the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and in 2015, Bai Ming's ceramic work "Red Rhyme - Flying Around" became a gift given to the International Olympic Committee when Beijing bid to host the Winter Olympic Games.
Detailed drawing of the "Wenjun Bottle"
Bai Ming, a native of Yugan, Jiangxi, is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, the head of the Department of Ceramics, and a doctoral supervisor. Director of ceramic art committee of China Artists Association. He is a ceramicist and scholar with international influence, and has established the theoretical foundation of modern and contemporary Chinese ceramics. His works are collected by the British Museum, the Selnucci Museum, the China Museum and other museums, and are an outstanding representative of Chinese new ceramic art in world art.
Jiangxi artist Bai Minghe "Wenjun Bottle"
Source: Duan Ping, all-media reporter of Jiangnan Metropolis Daily
Editor on duty: Jiang Yu
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