Gourd painting is a traditional Chinese handicraft art
It is also an integral part of the intangible cultural heritage
Guo Chunlei, the non-hereditary heir of Xuanhua branding
A clever blend of traditional culture and Elements of the Winter Olympics
Created a series of works
Guo Chunlei: Non-hereditary emotions are "branded" out of the Winter Olympics
"I want to create as many gourd works as possible about the Winter Olympics, so that more people can understand the Winter Olympics, know us in Zhangjiakou, and spread the folk art culture of gourd painting." On February 10, in the studio of Guo Chunlei, the inheritor of the Zhangjiakou Intangible Cultural Heritage Gourd Painting Project, he was working overtime to produce a series of gourd paintings with the theme of "Winter Olympic Champions". At the same time, he has successively created more than 30 gourd paintings and woodblock prints such as "Snow Ruyi", "Tiger Hope Winter Olympics", "Great River and Mountain" and other Winter Olympic works, in his own way to contribute to the Winter Olympics and express his good wishes for the Winter Olympics.
Use gourds as a medium to carry forward the spirit of the Winter Olympics
The 53-year-old Guo Chunlei, who lives in the Miaodi Street community area of Xuanhua District, as the inheritor of the Zhangjiakou Intangible Cultural Heritage Gourd Painting Project, from the moment of successful bidding for the Winter Olympics, he has sprouted the idea of "must use his own strengths and hobbies, with gourds as the medium, to create gourd paintings, and carry forward the spirit of the Winter Olympics to help the Winter Olympics", and wants to use his best gourd paintings to create a series of Winter Olympic elements, so that more people can understand the Winter Olympics through gourd paintings and fall in love with ice and snow sports. Slowly, he began to brew up in his mind the pictures and compositions of various "Helping the Winter Olympics" branding works, and successively created more than 30 gourd paintings and woodblock prints such as "Snow Ruyi", "Tiger Hope Winter Olympics", "Great River and Mountain", etc.
In order to create a series of themed gourd paintings for the Winter Olympics, Guo Chunlei consulted a large number of materials, news, pictures and other information to speculate and study. Among them, "Snow Ruyi", a gourd painting with a height of about 50 centimeters and a width of about 40 centimeters, made Guo Chunlei put a lot of effort into looking for information at the beginning of creation. "In this work, there are the five Olympic rings symbolizing the Winter Olympics, the Great Wall of our motherland, and the Xue ruyi built in our Zhangjiakou, which are integrated into the work, and the words 'China refuel, together to the future' are accompanied by the words 'China refuels, together to the future', expressing good wishes for the Winter Olympics." However, in the process of creation, because he had never seen the true face of "Xue Ruyi", Guo Chunlei had been suffering from his inability to god, until a chance, he went to Chongli District of Zhangjiakou City, which was fortunate to be able to observe and speculate on "Xue Ruyi" at close range, and finally successfully created it.
Branding the "Winter Olympic Champion" record athletes won the award
"Gourd painting is a national intangible cultural heritage project, which has existed since the Western Han Dynasty, reached its peak during the Qing Dynasty, and the finished product is very three-dimensional, and the most difficult thing in creation is the display of characters' faces and animal hairs." Looking at the gourd paintings of different sizes and shapes placed in the studio, Guo Chunlei said.
Since the opening of the Winter Olympics, he has worked overtime, drawing until the early hours of the morning every day, and once again created a series of gourd paintings with the theme of "Winter Olympic Champions". So far, he has successively created Wu Dajing, Gu Ailing, Ren Ziwei, Su Yiming and other athletes who won awards at the Winter Olympics. At the same time, he prepared to use the form of gourd branding to paint the image of each Chinese athlete who won the Winter Olympics as a souvenir.
"During the Winter Olympics, it is a very happy thing to be able to use my own strengths and hobbies to paint the country's outstanding athletes on the gourd in the form of gourds." Guo Chunlei said, "The state provides us with a platform to show to the world, as a non-hereditary heir of gourd branding, I think we should spread this folk art culture." ”
Looking at Guo Chunlei holding an electric pen, his wrist moving slightly, accompanied by fine wisps of green smoke rising, the image of a Winter Olympic athlete came to life on the gourd. Pencil draft, soldering iron line, rendering, color pressing, gourd painting pencil after the draft, from the use of the pen to pen, the whole process can not be wrong. In this way, step by step, you can keep the color of the gourd painting work from falling off, and the work is more into the wood.
Guo Chunlei introduced that the gourd painting itself is a folk art culture, carrying traditional folk craft skills, and reflecting the change of color with the temperature of the soldering iron, with a unique artistic style. He felt proud and honored to be able to participate in the Winter Olympics through this art. Subsequently, he also prepared to paint the ice piers and snow rong of the Winter Olympic mascot to express his blessings for the Winter Olympics and spread the Winter Olympic culture and traditional Chinese culture.
He is a non-hereditary heir of Xuanhua brand painting
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