Author: Tang Yahong Text/Photo
Wu Chao's stone painting masterpiece "Fish Leaping Lotus Pond"
I have been engaged in cultural news gathering and editing for 30 years, and I have interviewed many artistic masters from all over the country. Among them, Mr. Wu Chao, a famous stone painter in Nanjing, made me very admirable!
In the arts and crafts circles of Nanjing, Wu Chao's stone painting skills are extremely skillful and famous. As long as the stones that are regarded by ordinary people as building materials or wastes are in his hands, after being skillfully conceived according to the material, they can be like magic, "transformed" into a very exquisite stone painting work of art.
Many painters love to splash ink and depict the moonlight of the lotus pond on rice paper, but the beautiful scenery of the lotus pond that Mr. Wu Chao cleverly painted on the stone is different and unique.
Once the stone met Mr. Wu Chao, it would be so lucky! Then it will change from ugliness to beauty, from waste to treasure, from lifeless to full of vitality. I think that if the stone can also speak, then I will definitely thank Mr. Wu Chao in the most beautiful language!
This stone feels very ordinary
However, "changing" into a stone painting is impressive
The patterns wu chao painted on the stones include figures and animals, landscapes and landscapes, as well as flowers, birds, fish and insects, which are really colorful and all-encompassing. In particular, Wu Chao likes to paint the beautiful scenery of the "lotus pond" on a piece of extremely ordinary stone, and its composition is very beautiful and the picture is very vivid. Moreover, the use of color is also very flexible, or heavy ink, or skillful use of the true color of stone. Therefore, Wu Chao's stone painting crafts are really loved by everyone!
Wu Chao presented me with a fine stone painting "Zhong Kui Drunk"
Wu Chao specially signed the back of the giveaway
20 years ago, in order to thank me for writing and publishing a long-form character interview for him in the Yangtze Evening News, Wu Chao specially signed and presented me with a stone painting masterpiece "Zhong Kui Drunk". I wish my old friend Mr. Wu Chao to create more and more beautiful stone paintings!
Author: Tang Yahong (Former editor of the supplement department of Jiangsu Workers Daily. He is currently the honorary editor-in-chief of TianxiaMei Bao, and the vice president of Jiangsu Provincial Popular Calligraphy and Painting Institute. ）
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