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Chinese Jade Carving Divine Craftsmanship Award Special Gold Medal Works Review
Chinese jade carving art critic Liu Zhuo
The jade carving work "Empty Phase" fully demonstrates the author's familiarity with the material, the grasp of color, the application of light and shadow and the understanding of Buddhism, and it is really desirable to be awarded the special gold award.
The author named the work "Empty Phase", so where does "emptiness" and "phase" come from? In fact, "emptiness" and "phase" are Zen terms of the mind, and emptiness is truth, which refers to a state that people reach in their hearts where nothing is self-possessed. Phase is vulgar, referring to the external world of debris that man perceives. People in the world are either obsessed with "phase" on the outside or obsessed with "emptiness" on the inside, but the Buddhist teachings are profound and profound, and the mysteries are infinite, and it can be written in a book by taking a sentence to interpret it, so I understand that the author of "Empty Phase" is to use his skillful jade carving skills to express his inner journey of seeking liberation and enlightenment to become a Buddha by referring to the familiar shape of the Buddha, using his skilled jade carving skills, to express his inner journey of seeking liberation, to enlighten the mental path of becoming a Buddha, and to obtain the power of soothing peace from it.
Buddha statues have become increasingly secularized since the Tang Dynasty, and the craftsmen have integrated their feelings into them and integrated the beauty of their contemporaries into them, making the Buddha humane and human.
The carving of "Empty Phase" is a new way, concealing the "open face" that people deliberately pay attention to, and replacing it with "empty phase", which is an attempt and innovation in the creation of contemporary art. In the form, it does not deliberately resemble but pays attention to the shape, so as to achieve the effect of listening to spring thunder in the silent place. Although the Buddha-nature is slightly insufficient, and the solemn beauty of the face is missing, the viewer can also experience the "taste". The power of silence, even if it is like a lake of clear water, can also be powerful to ten thousand jun, without losing solemnity and sacredness.
Of course, the expression of all this depends on the author's craftsmanship to pay attention to symmetry and parallelism, the characters use geometric figures, so that this example has reached almost perfect, the lines are smooth and comfortable, and the personalized treatment of the portrait work is not completely casual, which makes "Empty Phase" have an indescribable feeling for the viewer. I would rather be silent in the meditation embodied in the Void Phase and listen to the sound of the Sanskrit sound.
