Zhu Zhenqi, a famous porcelain engraver, painter, calligrapher and artist, was born in Nanjing, the master of the trumpet, the owner of the Lishan Yizhimei, and a senior Chinese craftsman. Winner of the Gold Medal of the 1st and 2nd Chinese Arts Festivals in the World, Honorary President of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute of the Chinese Celebrity Association, President of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Collection Research Institute, Editor of the World Celebrity Certificate (Volume IV P1249), Outstanding Member of the Chinese Democratic League, Executive Director of the Overseas Artists Association, Secretary General of the Pan Art Committee of the Shandong Arts and Crafts Association, Executive Vice President of Jinan Jiuding Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute, Vice President of the Dayou Painting Institute, Deputy Director of the Sculpture Committee, Executive Director of the Jinan Huaxia Promotion Association, Art Consultant of the China Hongshan Calligraphy and Painting Institute, He is a member of the Jinan Calligraphers Association, a director of the Jinan Civic Artists Association, and commissioned by the president of Hong Kong's Huada Company in 1997 to carve statues of United Nations Secretary-General Annan, US President Clinton and Jordanian King Hussein. Mr. Zhu Zhenqi has a deep artistic background in music, calligraphy and painting, seal carving, engraved porcelain, gourd, gong and drum, flute, film and television, and has participated in the large-scale historical theme TV series "Peace Mission" as a meteorological expert, and his work Plum Blossom won the gold medal in the Shandong Jiuyang Cup Competition in September 2009, and his works have been given as gifts to famous people from all walks of life and international friends for many times.
The beauty of porcelain
The art of engraving porcelain originated from the jade peeling and stone carvings of the Qin and Han dynasties, and matured in the late Qing Dynasty, combining the artistic beauty of the picture and the three-dimensional modeling beauty of carving. As a traditional handicraft art, the art of engraving porcelain was used in the Qin and Han Dynasties to peel off the porcelain glaze, called "peeling jade". At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there was a profession specializing in porcelain engraving in the folk, but most of them were mainly flat engraving, and the artistic expression of dot line composition appeared monotonous and plain, and did not attract much attention from the world. Until the late Qianlong period, due to the prosperity of the economy and the needs of the cultural life of the rulers, the imperial court deliberately set up a "building office" in the imperial palace to manufacture handicrafts used in the court. Due to the admiration of all social classes at that time, the art of engraving calligraphy has been further developed, and even people have been able to use knives to carve landscapes, flowers, birds, grass worms, etc. on porcelain plates or other utensils, and they are vivid. During this period, engraved porcelain really developed into a new decorative art of porcelain. As a provincial intangible cultural heritage project in Shandong, with the efforts of generations of craftsmen, the carved porcelain and calligraphy and painting are perfectly combined, forming a traditional art of "walking" on a porcelain plate.
Zhu Zhenqi's "Master of The Skeleton" comes from his exquisite engraving technology and technology, his engraving technique inherits the essence of traditional engraving art, and constantly boldly innovates, integrating his own or extravagant, or graceful carving style, so that his works are not limited to shape, focus on expressing the inner charm, and become a family of its own. His works often show an unusually active zeitgeist and superb artistic concepts. His modernist expression techniques such as exaggeration, abstraction and allegory, as well as delicate emotions, blending virtual and real, and refining and fluent techniques, make his engraved porcelain works or graceful, lifelike, or brush and ink dripping, majestic.
He transplanted the innovative experiments in calligraphy and painting into the art of engraving porcelain, making the application of painting calligraphy and seal engraving art in engraved porcelain more handy and handy; he paid more attention to the shape of engraved porcelain art with modern inner life rhyme, and through it fully reflected the face of contemporary life, his engraved porcelain artworks were roughly divided into five categories, namely: portraits, calligraphy seal engraving, landscapes, birds and animals, flowers, plants, fish and insects. The portraits of Zhou Enlai, Kofi Annan, Clinton, Qi Baishi and other great figures he carved are all exquisite; the flowers, birds, fishes, insects, birds and animals he carved are all vivid; his carved winter plums are proud, and for this reason, his engraved porcelain works are deeply loved by people and praised by the industry.
Zhu Zhenqi's engraved porcelain art works have long flown out of his dark room, and he has crossed the ocean to become a messenger of friendship with foreign countries, and Li Xiaohua, chairman of the famous Hong Kong Huada Investment Group, also came to ask him to carve portraits for UN Secretary-General Annan and Jordanian King Hussein, and presented them as gifts to Annan and Hussein. Zhu Zhenqi's artistic achievements and biographies have also been included in the Who's Who in the World (Celebrity Volume); and successfully held a Chinese-foreign art exchange meeting attended by 14 foreign experts, which was interviewed and reported by television media and newspapers at home and abroad, and his works have been given as gifts to famous artists and international friends from all walks of life in provinces and cities for many times. (Note: Some of the contents of this chapter are excerpted from the Alumni Association of Jinan Middle School in Shandong Province)
Plum rhymes
Thin branches and thin jade, small calyx dots pearlescent; the master is exquisitely carved, full of plum blossoms. Now mention Zhu Zhenqi, the elegant name of "a plum in Alexandria" has long been well-known at home and abroad. The literati painting mei in the past is very particular about the use of ink, focusing on the kind of cold and cold mood, and there is a traditional five-color saying: that is, "scorched, thick, heavy, light, and clear". He pays attention to the thickness of the ink, making the ink warm, subtle, varied, and colorful, and better reflects the distance of the object, light and shade, yin and yang, concave and convex, dry and slippery, so that the work is full of color and charm. He uses a variety of brushwork, can be dry or wet, can be thick or light, can also use the center, he draws the lines are very strong and crisp, heavy and powerful, the lines drawn are light and smooth, smart and lively; he is good at using the pen against the front, the lines drawn are old and heavy, showing the trunks of old trees, stones, etc., these brushwork he can constantly alternate with each other.
Zhu Zhenqi insisted on painting plums for more than 30 years, he did not follow the ancient literati's extraordinary escape and lonely self-appreciation, his plum blossoms, full of energy, meaning, pen new, emotional, rich and full of composition, brushstrokes are dashing and straight, colorful, iron bones spring. Blazing new trails, teaching the law naturally, and always conveying to people a spirit of struggle that is more and more courageous. It is rich in thickness and lush in elegance, so although his paintings are full of flowers and are full of flowers, they give people the feeling of a vibrant spirit.
Mei Susun snow is three points white, but the snow loses plum incense. When a hundred flowers wither, only plum blossoms are full of life. Facing the snowflakes flying in the sky, standing proudly in the cold wind. Counting nine mid-winter, the ground is frozen and cold, the plum blossoms that bloom proudly in the snow bloom so beautifully, the strands are fragrant, and the spleen is refreshing, Mr. Zhu Zhenqi's freehand flower and bird painting "Primrose" depicts the proud bones of plum blossoms and the charm of magpies pressing branches.
Plum blossoms are beautiful, but they leave beauty to the white and flawless world; Plum blossom fragrance, but who knows the difficulty of "plum blossom fragrance from bitter cold"; plum blossoms, but "pretty do not fight for spring, only the spring to report; plum blossom pride, proud snow and frost, not afraid of difficulties, modest and optimistic, with a touch of red in exchange for spring full of heaven and earth." A series of plum blossoms are like a charm under Zhu Zhenqi's brush, slowly opening a flower scroll for people to bloom in the human world.
The God of the Pen
The great calligrapher Su Shi said: "Books must have gods, qi, bones, flesh, and blood. Zhang Huaihuan said: "Those who are deeply knowledgeable about books can only see the radiance, but they do not see the glyphs." "God, is a kind of charm, is a spirit, a work is good or not, not to see the structure, to see the glyph, is to see whether the work has a spirit, the spirit of the expression in the arrangement of the chapter, the brushwork of the strokes, the true feelings of the writer's heart, the lines in the calligraphy work, its square circles, the ups and downs, the rigidity and softness, the priority and the thickness and dryness, etc. A series of dialectical brushes have caused the beauty of the rhythm of virtual reality and reality. In the Han Dynasty, Cai Yong said that the divine radiance was supreme, and the grandson of the Jin dynasty Wang Xizhi, Wang Qian, said that the divine radiance was supreme. And Mr. Zhu Zhenqi's characters, beautiful and healthy, pay attention to shen yun, rigorous and neat, flat and steep, Mr. Zhu Zhenqi is good at summarizing the strengths of the Bo family, his words are thick and strong, the knots are thick, the ink color is thick and light, dense and elegant, very textured, the penmanship is flexible, the line is full of qi, the atmosphere is vivid, just right, the characters appear to be vibrant, and his calligraphy is full of charm.
The essence of art
People often master the same, but Zhu Zhenqi in addition to carving porcelain, painting plums well-known at home and abroad, but also love music, art proficiency, flute, oh na, lusheng, gong and drum, he can play everything; Liuqin, Yueqin, Yangqin, he can play piece by piece, but also volunteered to teach Chinese painting and calligraphy as a counselor for primary and secondary schools, was hired by Qilu University of Technology as a consultant, set up an art troupe to perform for the masses, and regularly held a calligraphy and painting exhibition in Jinan Zhongshan Park Cultural Center, Jinan Seven Sages International Cultural City, Jinan City Library, Convention and Exhibition Center. In addition, he has a deep knowledge of seal carving, sculpture and handicrafts, and he also has a talent for acting, and successfully played a meteorological expert in the large-scale military-themed TV series "Peace Mission" filmed by the military region in 2005, which received unanimous praise. Mr. Zhu Zhenqi is really an artist with both virtue and art.
Meditation life is thick and popular. Zhu Zhenqi said that his philosophy of life is "being kind to others." He also insisted on "goodness" in his artistic practice. He believes that painting, music, photography and other arts belong to the same destination, the purpose is to bring beauty to people, and the traditional Chinese virtues such as selflessness, charity, and kindness to others are the source of artistic beauty, and he has also practiced this in decades of artistic creation. As a family of three generations of railway workers, my grandfather drove a steam train, my father was once the deputy section chief of the Xuzhou locomotive maintenance section, and he himself was also from the Railway Culture Palace. He dedicated all his life's energy and expertise to the railway cultural cause, although he has retired, he has always retired, always put the inheritance of culture and art in mind, and personally taught, and now, his disciples have become professional artists in the field of engraving porcelain, calligraphy and painting, and students are full of peach and plum. As the head of the "Old Locust Tree" art troupe, he actively organized a series of cultural activities for the elderly, held PEN meetings in huaiyin district forest park, commented on works, exchanged experiences, and discussed skills. He felt that the so-called certain craft, unique life is not a certain person, should let everyone know more, master, carry forward, for this reason he came to learn porcelain carving students, come to the people, patient guidance, meticulous teaching, so that a large number of people can understand the art of carving porcelain, but also let a large number of people embark on the road of carving porcelain professional road; he organized the "Chinese and foreign folk art exchange meeting", attracted more than 40 foreign friends to come, admired Teacher Zhu's amazing carving porcelain skills, immediately learned from the teacher, became a good story. He believes that only "good" things can touch the depths of people's hearts, and only the creative motivation of "good" can achieve "beauty".
(Author: Zhu Wanhong Posted by Feng Hailong)