In the long course of history, Chinese civilization has bred the cosmology and outlook on life of the Chinese nation, and many splendid traditional national cultures and folk arts have been passed down to this day, and continue to influence the thinking and concepts of people on this area. However, with the progress of society and the development of science and technology, the former coarse porcelain miscellaneous utensils and native cloth flower clothes have unconsciously left the daily life of ordinary people. When folk artists pick up, recover and save these folk art objects that have been eliminated by the new fashion, they can trace back to the source in the form of art and inject new vitality into the beauty and realm of folk art. Undertaking the previous issue, this issue will continue to share the second part of the "Go to the Folk - Pan Lusheng Folk Art Exhibition" for everyone.
Topfonaling
Most of the folk artists have no professional art training, lack of scientific view of modeling, in the creation, they often pay more attention to the essence of things, and this essence is the cognition and induction of life practice. The deeper the folk artist's affection for the land beneath his feet, the more inseparable the problems he thinks about are.
Folk art not only has a natural variability, but also has the characteristics of stable inheritance. Although affected by the development of science and technology, folk art, which originally had strong practicality, has gradually become an aesthetic object and cultural symbol, and its function and value have gradually sublimated into elegant and pure art with artistic beauty, in some remote areas, folk art still retains an art form that has been passed down for hundreds of years or even thousands of years, which has lasted for a long time.
Wind and rain smooth, fiber hand embroidery, 2006
As a folk art work with both ornamental value and use value, it is generally displayed in front of people in the most intuitive way. For example, the insects, fish, birds and beasts painted on the Polylithic faience pottery are the entities that show things in the most concise and direct way. Since then, folk art such as New Year paintings and carvings has also displayed what they have seen and heard in the most intuitive way of expression in a realistic way, which is essentially different from modern abstract art.
Folk art is the image carrier of various folk activities, and its art form is closely related to the lives of ordinary people, with the characteristics of nature, simplicity and strong vitality. In the convention and oral transmission, people inherit the technology and paradigm of folk crafts from their ancestors, and also spontaneously continue the spiritual fire in culture, which is the tradition of folklore, the expression of aesthetics, and the wisdom and beautiful blessing of life.
Door God
The second part of the exhibition, "Tuofu Na Ling", takes the exhibits "Wind and Rain" and "Door God" as the starting point, respectively, from the traditional printing and engraving process, the "printing and engraving years" of the New Year painting and the "porcelain rhyme flowing" of Pan Lusheng's porcelain plate paintings, and reflects the prayers of the working people with simple and intuitive topics. They are the epitome of many national cultural heritages, which not only convey the voice of the working people, but also carry the true cultural value of traditional folk art.
Door God (Partial)
Imprint the years
Folk daily life is always covered with the pecking of the years, and those mottled marks are the blessing New Year paintings posted on the door of childhood, the cloth clothes printed with simple patterns, and the vivid and vivid face masks.
Folk Art Collection - Shendi
Folk Art Collection - Yu Lei
Folk Art Collection - Qin Qiong, Jingde, Qin Shubao, Wei Chigong
Folk Art Collection - Vesta
New Year painting, which began in ancient times as "door god painting", is one of the Chinese folk arts. Its origins can be traced back to the concept of nature worship and the belief in the gods in ancient times. Early Chinese New Year paintings have a close relationship with exorcising evil spirits and praying for blessings and greetings, and in the subsequent evolution and derivation, they gradually produced the decorative art of the New Year festival that was corresponding to it. Out of worship and belief, the images in the paintings have also developed from the earliest peach charms, golden roosters, and divine tigers to shencha, Yu Lei, and Guan Yu, Qin Qiong, And Wei Chigong. New Year paintings with a sense of blessing are generally painted in bright colors such as rhubarb and rhubarb, and the characters are vivid and cute and full of vitality.
Folk Art Collection - Shaanxi Shehuo Mask
Folk Art Collection - Shaanxi Shehuo Horse Spoon Face
Shaanxi Shehuo Horse Spoon Face
Folk Art Collection - Guizhou Puppet Mask, Tibetan Mask, Shaanxi Xuanyou Mask
The production process of the New Year painting inherits the engraving and printing technology, one of the "four major inventions", and the painting, engraving, printing and mounting in its production process are all manual processes. New Year painting is a long cultural tradition and exquisite carving technology that jointly express people's spiritual beliefs, and every printing and brushing is a place of affection. The New Year painting is also an illustration of folk culture, and it is also a dictionary of regional culture, which not only carries people's sustenance and expectations for a better life, but also finds the unique cultural personality of different regions.
Bless all beings, Fiber Hand Embroidery, 2007
Heaven and Earth, Fiber Hand Embroidery, 2020
Door God, Installation, 2007
Folk Art Collection - Gaomi Flutter Grey Year Paintings
New Year paintings are not paintings, but wisps of emotion that melt in people's hearts. Nowadays, the New Year paintings created with the traditional techniques of printing and engraving are still continuing in the folk with the carrier of native materials with earthy flavors such as mud, wood and ash.
Folk Art Collection - New Year Painting Engraving
Sage Confucius, Woodcut, 2009
Sage Confucius (Partial)
Porcelain rhymes
Folk art has an innate people's nature, and when the smooth and flawless surface meets the elegant and unbridled painting, porcelain is given more agility and vitality.
As a branch of traditional Chinese culture, ceramic painting has its unique and exuberant vitality that lasts for thousands of years. Different from general ceramics, ceramic painting is a kind of glazed colored porcelain, which is made by coating the glaze glaze with arsenic-containing glass white and painting it, and then baking it in the kiln. This technique tests the creator's mastery of color and line, the natural fusion of material nature, and gives the work a natural artistic charm.
Energetic (partial), porcelain plate painting, 2014
One of Shan se Hongmeng, Ceramics, 2013
Shan Se Hongmeng Ii, Ceramics, 2013
Folk Art Collection - Mackerel Plate
The "Blue and White Fish Plate" exhibited in this exhibition is one of the representatives of folk practical porcelain in the coastal areas of the mainland, and was once a must-have tableware on the table in Luzhong and Jiaodong areas.
Subtleties see the charm - folk art is not a simple portrayal of shapes, but a strong feeling for life and life. Its formation and evolution not only reflect the complex motives of the times, but also reflect the development law of folk art itself. This "beauty of creation" is the enjoyment of decorating life, and it is also the eternal persistence of spiritual beliefs.
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