- Preface -
[Enamel color porcelain], also known as porcelain tire painting enamel. During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, French enamelware accompanied by missionaries and merchant ships floated from the vast sea, colliding with the traditional Chinese enamel craft to create a new beauty.
During the Kangxi to Qianlong period, this noble and elegant art was exclusive to the court and was prominent for a while. However, with the decline of the national strength of the Qing Dynasty, the former enamel court skills were gradually lost, and even a gap of more than two hundred years appeared...
How can this skill be lost and regained?
How to make the court enamel porcelain reappear in the world again?
— He used 13 years to "resurrect" a lost craft—
Since 1999, Sun Heyang has been developing porcelain tire painting enamel, determined to find this traditional craft. To this end, he specially set up a sophisticated R & D and production team, condensing the wisdom and experience of two generations, hoping to reproduce the court enamel on the basis of inheriting the craftsmanship of the predecessors.
The court enamel process is extremely complex,
From material selection, drawing, firing,
There can be no mistake in every link.
The team has gone through 13 years,
Flipping through a large number of historical materials,
Thousands of firing experiments have been conducted.
Selection of Jingdezhen kaolin and pure natural imported gem pigments,
And in-house research and development of enamel color blending oil.
Finally, in 2013,
The porcelain tire painting enamel color porcelain that has been lost for more than 200 years has been successfully developed and fired.
Perfectly presented to the world.
The enamel color reproduced by Sun Heyang and his team has been recognized and affirmed by ye Peilan, Li Zongyang and other teachers of the Palace Museum, and named it "Zhenghe Palace" palace enamel color, taking the meaning of "political communication and people", and the real appearance of the palace enamel color process.
In the view of Sun Heyang, the founder of the enamel color in the court of the Zhenghe Palace, the insistence on the enamel color is actually the original intention of a craftsman, a simple but dedicated craftsman spirit.
Zhenghe Palace is currently the only porcelain tire painting brand in China that integrates palace craftsmanship, completely handmade and painted porcelain tire painting, and has won the honor of "Chinese National Ceremony" and is collected by embassies and consulates of many countries.
Yue Feng, director of the National Museum of Art Appraisal Center, believes that zhenghe palace: "While restoring and inheriting the superb skills of predecessors, it is developed in combination with contemporary aesthetic tastes, so that traditional technology is more suitable for modern use, and constantly adds content with modern connotations to creation, which is both traditional and modern." ”
- Tradition & Innovation -
On the other side of the revival tradition is the inheritance and innovation of art.
How does enamel color innovate? This will be the next question for Sun Heyang's team to consider.
The Taiping Imperial Records record: "When the Yellow Emperor was in power, the phoenix was used as a chicken. ”
The Classic of Mountains and Seas speaks of the phoenix, saying that "its shape is like a chicken."
Mr. He Baosen, a famous sculptor and an old professor of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, gave important guidance on sculpture modeling. The phoenix, the king of birds, takes the chicken as the basic shape; the phoenix is an auspicious bird, and the chicken is the same, which has the function of warding off evil spirits and expelling demons and the meaning of auspicious wishes. The "Zhenghe Palace" perfectly combines the court enamel techniques of the Qing Dynasty with the ceramics of the Zodiac sculpture, and is named "Fengming".
Under the premise of basically retaining the prototype,
Add some fresh elements to make it more designed.
Ceramic sculpture production is different from other material sculpture works, and there are great limitations in shape. If you want to achieve a given shape, you must challenge the difficult firing process, and it is easy to explode, crack, collapse and so on. If you are not careful, the results of several months of hard work will be ruined.
Ceramic sculpture white tire is not easy to get, enamel glaze painting is also a heart-wrenching process - enamel color is mainly used in chromatic process, according to different colors, using different temperatures for repeated firing, so the success rate of enamel color is very small. It takes countless baptisms of fire to produce a true enamel masterpiece.
Be a craftsman with temperature,
Use works to express rich themes and content,
Branded with a strong sense of life and timeless philosophy,
This is compassion for human beings and all things in the universe.