Chapter 1315 Incentive
"Ah, yes." Yao Chong received Zhou Zhi's hint and quickly said: "Our current idea is mainly to take advantage of our factory, that is, we all When the level and talents of senior craftsmen are brought into full play, they will have a bigger stage, a broader space for development, and of course, better income. "
"Don't have too many scruples. We have a rare opportunity to test the waters this time. We are by no means asking everyone to lay off their jobs, not even to lay off employees without pay. We will do it in the future. While ensuring everyone’s basic protection, let everyone be bold enough to create and create greater value.”
“Let’s do this. , I will give you some incentives." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "This batch of customized works, no, this batch, and other customized works in the future, as long as they can be evaluated as provincial awards, each item will be provided with two An additional reward of 10,000 yuan; if you can win the Hundred Flowers Award, or get first place in the competition awards held by the Ministry of Light Industry, the Ministry of Culture and other ministerial-level units, you will receive an additional reward. What do you think of the reward of 50,000?”
“Is Xiao Zhou serious?” Xu Zhiman’s little eyes lit up again: “The winners of the Hundred Flowers Award are often not big ones, like Xiao Zhu’s last time. Xiao Zhou, did you spend 50,000 yuan on the imitation Hanyu components? You want to give 50,000 yuan as a reward, I’m afraid... the input is not proportional to the output.”
"It's okay." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "I don't believe that the Hundred Flowers Award is that easy to win."
"Then don't regret it." Lu Man felt that Zhou Zhi had slighted them, but he didn't know that Zhou Zhi was actually playing tricks. Exciting general method.
"How can you regret it?" Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "If you can carve a ring to win the Hundred Flowers Award, I will give you a reward of 50,000 yuan."
"Speak. Really?”
“We can even write it into the custom commission contract”
"Okay! Then let's quickly decide on the theme and start work as soon as possible!" Zhu Qinghong was also excited: "Even if we can't get it at the national level, we can't get it at the provincial level?!"
"Then Okay, let's decide on the subject first." Xu Zhimian still takes great care of his disciples and disciples, so now he simply changes the topic without talking to Yao Chong.
Zhou Zhi sighed secretly in his heart, forget it, sooner or later the jade carving artists in Suzhou will take the step of building their own studios. As long as the skills of these master craftsmen do not retreat, they will surely be in the future market. If you have a place, you don’t have to rush to encourage others.
Determining the theme is actually not difficult, because Zhou Zhi does not limit everyone's performance, and this child's preference is the most familiar theme for jade carving craftsmen, that is, "Jiu Gu".
Zhou Zhi does not like purely modern sculptures, such as carving a conch, no matter how lifelike it is, it will not be to his taste.
However, if we carve the conch into a rare left-handed conch, and then carve a formless monk bowing his head in the opening of the conch, make the conch become extremely huge through contrast, and then name the theme "Buddha's Sound", this theme will be interesting. .
Innovation and change must have traces to follow.
For example, for antique utensils, you can refer to the shape of ancient ritual utensils, but the size ratio is reduced to the mini level. The largest tripod should not be larger than the size of a fist, and the smallest jue is only as big as the knuckle of your little finger. Do it three or four times. A complete set of ten pieces, as a combination subject for a master like Zhu Qinghong to show off his fine carving, it is no small matter.
Large items are actually easier, because high-quality Hetian jade aniseed is now difficult to obtain.
As long as there are no major flaws in the craftsmanship, it will basically be at the level of winning a grand prize. However, Zhou Zhi also had requirements. For example, the largest piece of material this time, according to the general method, is Shanzi, and the subject matter is nothing more than landscapes, towers, figures, and animals.
But Zhou Zhi came up with an idea. We should still make Shanzi, but this Shanzi should imitate the shape of the Boshan stove in the Han Dynasty.
Boshan is a mountain where chess is played, and it is also a fairy mountain. The mountain is an illusory fairyland, so the theme is still nothing more than landscapes, towers, characters and animals, but the animals here are no longer the deer, cranes, cows and horses that are common in ordinary mountains. Instead, we should draw materials from the cultural relics of the Han Dynasty, such as Chilong and Flying Tiger. , black turtles, blue birds and other mythical beasts;
In short, it is necessary to see at a glance that it is developed from traditional themes, but if you look closely, you will find that there are differences and changes from traditional themes. Although such themes are in It has never happened before in history, but no one finds it strange.
Zhou Zhi is very advantageous in this aspect. He has a very rich imagination in this aspect. He has seen a lot of traditional ancient carvings. He uses the shape of the jade material to make associations and tell the theme he wants. Xu Zhimian then used an outline pen to briefly draw on the prediction, and adjusted it into a rough manuscript according to Zhou Zhi's meaning. Then Zhou Zhi gave him a poetic name, making the remaining people look at each other.
What do today’s jade carving craftsmen lack most? It’s cultural influence.
Zhou Zhi can just make up for this shortcoming for them.
For example, for a flat oval piece of gold-skinned jade material, Zhou Zhi asked Xu Zhimian to trace a Buddha statue, but only the head and neck, as well as an irregular part of the chest, created the imagination of an unfinished Buddha cave statue. , named "Shazhou", immediately pulls the viewer's mind to the place of worship on the ancient Silk Road.
This is called artistic conception, which is a necessary element for winning awards. It is also one of the most difficult qualities for current creators to possess.
In Zhou Zhi's previous life, this situation actually had to wait until the price of artworks appreciated thousands of times before it could attract many professional art talents from the sculpture departments of major art academies to join the jade carving industry and undergo hard training. ; Or the problem was solved after traditional jade craftsmen got the opportunity, entered the Academy of Fine Arts for further studies, and then fed back the knowledge they learned into jade carvings.
The value of Xu Zhimian as the chief craftsman of the jade carving factory was reflected at this time. Only he could understand the intention of the thoughtful explanation and then make a draft that his disciples could understand and guide them in their creation.
And Zhou Zhi’s image in front of everyone in the jade carving factory has also been improved. Literati are very thoughtful, but in fact the craftsmanship is still the same, but with the sublimation of the subject matter, artistic conception and even the title of the work, he used Yao Chong If you're excited, it means "high value", huge value.
The judges of the Hundred Flowers Awards liked this one the most!
Of course, it is impossible to get all the 500 kilograms of jade materials in this way, then it is no longer a matter of 250,000 yuan.
So I left some small information to Xu Zhimian and let everyone use it freely.
Today's "apprentice workers" are not the derogatory term apprentice workers in later generations. Even the two great-grandson-level rising stars Guo Changzheng and Lu Jianghua have much better craftsmanship than the "masters" with famous names in later generations. As long as If their themes are based on traditional themes and don't come up with things like white jade Jehovah's sapphire cross, then the problem won't be big.
However, there are more than a dozen pieces of 500 kilograms of jade material, large and small, and several of them are gifts for cousin An An. In addition to the jade materials used to carve the immortal tree, the dragon's head and the sash are also included. The ring needed to use the leftover materials taken from carving large pieces, and it couldn't be designed in a short while. Zhou Zhi simply left a few jade carvings in the jade carving factory for Zhu Qinghong and others to figure out.
(End of this chapter)