Video guide
From an ordinary ceramic worker, to strive to promote Tangshan art ceramics to the world, Zhao Guoqing has been engaged in the ceramic industry for more than 40 years, he is an artist who is obsessed with integrating traditional culture into ceramics, and today our Tangshan masters introduce you to the Chinese ceramic art master Zhao Guoqing.
In Zhao Guoqing's simple and elegant ceramic studio, all kinds of porcelain crafts that come into view show the ethereal temperament of traditional culture, from cups and dishes to printmaking screens, Chinese painting landscapes, flowers, birds and ceramics, they are mutual reference and reference, in the points, lines, inks, colors, and forms, chapters, language, space in the similarities and differences and creativity, they highlight the connotation and essence of porcelain in a form of tacit integration.
Influenced by his family since childhood, Zhao Guoqing has a special love for traditional Chinese culture, and he was obsessed with the art of calligraphy at the age of Mongolian studies. In addition to learning calligraphy, he studied under the painter Mr. Yang Hong, and the landscapes he made were painted with books, and the heads of the families formed their own distinctive characteristics under his pen. It is precisely because of such accumulation that Zhao Guoqing can truly integrate the essence of calligraphy and painting into ceramic art.
Ceramic painting decoration techniques are diverse and distinctive, among which the more representative ones are underglaze blue flowers, underglaze multicolor, glaze new color, splash color and so on. Zhao Guoqing organically combines the pen and ink magic of Chinese painting with ceramic techniques, and creates a new painting technique that conforms to the perfect combination of Chinese brush and ink language and ceramics, making the artistic porcelain beautiful and pleasing to the eye, and greatly improving the grade, collection value and appreciation space of display porcelain.
The hard work of porcelain craftsmen is not only the inheritance of history and culture, but also the development and dissemination of ceramic art, ceramics condense the soul of a city, economy, politics, life, art, urban construction, history are all included in this thousand years of kiln fire, the torch is inherited, and it is timeless. Zhao Guoqing said that the road to porcelain art is difficult and long, idealistic and dedicated, in order to live up to the time and the choice.