Author: Xiao Zhen
Clay Sculpture "Knight of Fire"
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A recent picture of the clay sculpture "Fire Knight" created for the "motorcycle rider" at the fire fighting site of Beibei Jinyun Mountain has exploded on major online platforms; Received praise from netizens.
Netizen: "This is the art that the people need".
Who is his original author? His name is Tang Zhonghua, a very Chinese name, a young sculptor with a heroic complex.
On the evening of August 21, a forest fire occurred in The Mahutou Mountain of Beibei Xie, holding a continuous high temperature, the wind boosted, and the mountain fire gradually approached the core area of the main mountain of jinyun Mountain for 48 hours.
Picture of the decisive battle of Jinyun Mountain (Source: Upstream journalist Zhou Xuan photography)
The fire is merciless, ravaging the city, standing in the old city center of Beibei, half of the people's hearts in the Beibei city are scorched, and there is thick black smoke floating above the skyline of jinyun mountains under the blue sky and white clouds in the past; A defense battle of Jinyun Mountain was officially launched!
On the evening of August 25th, with the help of the rescue forces of the eight parties, thousands of volunteers "This is our home, we will not help when to stay"!
Netizen: "Today's group of children riding motorcycles has made a great contribution"!
Sentence by sentence, Chongqing's "rising up" and "Beibei refueling" were heroic and resolute, and they firmly believed in defeating the fire demon, which really confirmed the heroic and tragic moment when the Chinese nation was in crisis, that "people do not distinguish between old and young, the land does not distinguish between north and south, there is money to pay, and there is a strong contribution" heroic and tragic moment.
Even if you did not come to the rescue scene in person, your heart is also anxious and passionate, especially when you see on the newly opened rugged mountain road at the rescue site, the video brushes the group riding motocross motorcycles to transport rescue supplies, fall down and get up, trapped in the water when the head is drenched in "wind chasing teenagers", you have to be moved by the feats of ordinary people...
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On the morning of September 6, 2022, on Zhongshan Road in Beibei.
Hidden in the residential area of Lugou Bridge, the former "Jialing Culture and Art School Site" building Beibei Artists Association Studio, the author meets the Tang Chinese teacher who is creating.
As an art creator, Tang Zhonghua is still a little excited about the creative experience of the day: "In the few days of the forest fire in Beibei Jinyun Mountain, I was touched by the volunteer actions of fire fighters, militiamen and ordinary people who participated in the rescue one by one every day, thinking about how to express my feelings, and the ordinary hero "motorcycle rider" picture that came up in my mind had too strong an impact on me, from the conception to the completion of the clay sculpture work, I only took a short day."
I named the work: "Knights of Fire" as a tribute to my civilian heroes" !
How do you think some time ago, many platform networks misrepresented your "Fire Knight" work as "xxx creation" report, Tang China smiled lightly.
Bronze statue of the Knight of Fire
In the interview with Tang Dynasty China, it was revealed that the sculpture work of the "Fire Knight" he created has been transformed into bronze pieces, and will soon be donated by the Beibei Artists Association to the Yunnan Forest Fire Brigade For Collection, in order to express the gratitude of the people of Beibei to the heroes of the Yunnan Forest Fire Fighting Detachment for rushing to help the heroes of the Jinyun Mountain Defense War.
Tang China work photo
Tang China, post-70s, Chongqing people. He graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1999. He is currently a member of the Sculpture Professional Committee of the China Arts and Crafts Society, a member of the Chongqing Artists Association, and a member of the Chongqing Folk Artists Association, and holds the National Urban Sculpture Qualification Certificate. Member of Chongqing Folk Writers Association, Chongqing Artists Association, Beibei District Artists Association, Chongqing Beibei District Urban and Rural Culture Promotion Association, volunteer of "Zuofu Volunteer"; In 2017, he returned to Beibei to establish the "Pen plus Plastic Art Training Center" while engaging in the teaching of young children and creating independently; He said that during his five years of working in Shenzhen, he mainly carried out the creation of Western Renaissance humanistic artworks and sculptures, although the creative work enriched his artistic vision and work experience, but in the heart of Tang China, there has always been a dream of promoting and inheriting traditional Chinese culture and displaying the national hero complex.
In the past 10 years, he has consulted, collected and visited the background information of ordinary heroes and pacesetters, and created, and successively created "Tribute" 23 statues of the republic's scientific groups, the people's public servant "Jiao Yulu", the winner of the Order of the Republic "Zhong Nanshan", the 2015 national hometown-loving figure Beibei Chongqing Bayu Farming Museum founder "Liu Yingsheng", 2020-2021 moving Chinese Chongqing Wushan "contemporary fool" "Mao Xianglin", patriotic industrialist, educator, pioneer of China's rural construction, "Lu Zuofu", the father of Beibei Pioneering, the group sculpture of "Lu Ziying's Family" by Chinese rural construction practitioners, and the bronze statue of Mr. Zhang Bohe, the second principal of Jianshan Middle School, created for the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Chongqing Jianshan Middle School, and other series of works.
His works "Beacon Years" and "Chinese Soul" participated in the 9th World Chinese Art Congress Hong Kong Exhibition and won the International Gold Medal. "Practice with Me" participated in the 2nd Modern Arts and Crafts Exhibition and won the Excellence Award. At the same time, it was selected for the 2008 Harmonious China Olympic Games. "Sprint" and "One Dream" participated in the Beijing Dialogue and Communication Sculpture Exhibition and won the Excellence Award, and "The Last Mother's Love" was selected for the Huaiyin Slippery Tianyou Award Sculpture Competition and won the Excellence Award. "Bridge Series - Splashing water" was selected for the first Fangshan Han White Jade Carving Competition and won the Excellence Award. "Pride of the Nation" was selected for the first two bombs and one star art exhibition, "Struggle" was selected for the Nanjing International Sports Sculpture Competition, "Mountain Ghost" was selected for the first "Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs • Mountain Ghost" Main Art Exhibition", "Lao Tzu Enlightenment" was selected for the "Kunlun Shenyun Tiangong Kaiwu Award" and won the Excellence Award, "Unity of Purpose" was selected for the Chongqing Art Museum Spring Return to the Land Anti-epidemic Theme Exhibition, the 8th Chongqing Art Exhibition, and won various awards inside and outside the city.
Group drawings of some of Tang China's works
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Walking into Tang China's sculpture studio looks a little messy, full of art sculptures, if you take a deep breath, there is a fresh smell of earth in the air.
Browse the artworks in the workplace and you will find a favorite work, especially when you look at your favorite character, you will definitely feel a kind of spiritual shock beyond the sculpture itself.
In 2015, Liu Yingsheng, a national hometown love figure
The first contact with Tang China gives people a kind of peace and humility, without the feeling of artists; The creation of the work as a whole gives people a calm and elegant, simple and distinct aesthetic.
The latest creation of "Fire Knight and Fire Warrior" clay sculpture
Tang China: "I am creating a new clay sculpture of the "Fire Knight" and will complete the clay molding in these two days, this statue: the motorcycle rider does not have a back on his back, but we are familiar with the picture: the back seat of the motorcycle is equipped with a fire fighter who is going up the mountain to extinguish the fire, and the visual impact is even more shocking."
Tang China Work Concept Map
Talking about the next step of heroic complex creation, Tang Zhonghua also discussed with the author the idea of the jinyun mountain hero group statue he was brewing, "using jinyun mountain as the background to create a group of group sculptures with touching pictures such as fire fighters, motorcycle riders, and volunteers with logistical support."
Hand in hand, watching out for each other. "Poor people are good at themselves, and if they are good at the world", as a "volunteer worker", we will forge ahead together!
"Ordinary casts great heroes from the people"!
Tang China, an artist who sings for ordinary heroes, a sculptor full of positive energy, is good!