Chapter 1409 A new look
The art of mounting is actually the art of paste and water. When Zhou Zhi used a small alcohol stove and a small pot to prepare the starch water, the female host was already excited on the side. Her tone was quite For all the fuss.
Zhang Siluo acted as a translator and asked Zhou Zhi what kind of high-end secret medicine this was.
Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "This is starch. The adhesive that is boiled out is actually the paste that the Chinese have used for thousands of years."
Three works of the old president, front Two of them have been mounted on the wall, and today only the one of "Reasonable Pursuit" remains as a demonstration of the art of mounting.
The work is actually very simple. Spread a piece of poster on the table, then remove the trimmings and other decorations from the original work with the edges cut off. Place the painting on the poster with the center of the painting facing down. Sprinkle it with boiling water and cold water alternately, and roll it with a towel. Roll to remove the debris and adhesive between the painting center and the back frame, and then the back frame can be peeled off.
The old president’s calligraphy is mounted on Goryeo paper. This kind of paper has long been listed as tribute during the feudal dynasty of the Central Plains. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been the paper used for high-end calligraphy and painting in the palace. Therefore, Zhou Zhi and Xu Bangda competed against each other. Its performance is nothing new.
However, the female host next to me is a novice. This column is also equivalent to a popular science column about intangible cultural heritage, with many questions emerging one after another.
For example, how can glue glue prevent the work from problems such as food deterioration? Another example is that ink can smudge when written on rice paper. Why is the work poured with hot and cold water after it is completed? Will it smudge again?
Zhou Zhi also answered these questions one by one, and also did a popular science on traditional Chinese painting.
The artistic creation of calligraphy and painting in North Korea basically started from the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Until 1945, they copied the art of the Central Plains. Whether it is calligraphy or painting, the style is the same as that of ancient China, especially the 1600s. In the seventh century, if you put the works of Korean painters and Chinese painters together, you can't tell the specific differences in creative styles and techniques between the two.
At that time, North Korea was known as "Little China", and this name did not come from nothing.
So Zhou Zhi only needs to explain the strokes and meanings of the old president’s calligraphy, and explain the characteristics of the knot character, which can be used to analyze which calligraphy masters the old president has learned from, and what kind of calligraphy has emerged from them. Self-change, and finally formed the current calligraphy style.
Then he talked about the reasons for the "disease" in the work, and changed the topic from the appreciation of calligraphy works to the mounting process. While chatting, he peeled off the cocoon paper on the back of the paper, leaving only the center of the mirror. .
In the eyes of outsiders, the old president’s work has been horribly damaged. The heart of the painting has been torn and there are cracks everywhere. Taken together, there are no less than dozens of large and small ones.
But Zhou Zhi was very relaxed, and he did not engage in alarmism. He just told the host honestly that the damage to the work was not serious and it was very simple to repair.
The host was dumbfounded when he saw the work full of cracks. This is not serious, so what is serious?
Zhou Zhi explained with a smile that although there are many tear marks in this work, in the end they are all new wounds, and the nature of the damage is very simple and purely physical.
Compared with those ancient paintings in China that are thousands of years old, the scars on the body include physical, chemical, and biological. Many of them are superimposed and accumulated on each other. Many of them were broken into pieces when they were discovered. The largest One piece is no more than the size of a playing card.
Thousands of years of dust and dirt are still mixed in. Compared with those paintings, the current works of the old president can really only be described as "simple".
While talking, Zhou Zhi began to piece together and repair the heart of the painting. He poured water on the heart of the painting, used the buoyancy of the water to carefully piece the cracks together, and then used cut rice paper strips to overlap the cracks. So that the traces of cracks are no longer visible to the naked eye. This is a delicate job, and it is also a skillful job, which can show the key to the high skill of mounting. Zhou Zhi took a horn skewer to pick and move on the heart of the painting, and the work created a sense of beauty. Not only Xu Bangda nodded repeatedly when he saw it, Even laymen like Minister Jin, Zhang Siluo and the female host can see Zhou Zhi's superb skills and confidence in his technique.
This is like a reverse shot of the chef deconstructing the cow. After careful consideration, the last cracked paper strip was patched up, and the original work and the patched paper strip merged into one under the infiltration of water. , after all the cracks in the original work disappeared to the point where they could no longer be seen with the naked eye, everyone in the restoration room breathed a sigh of relief and burst into warm applause.
Although there are still paintings on the wall that have been restored to the original state of the two previous works of the old president, people who have not witnessed the restoration process with their own eyes cannot imagine how miraculous and difficult it is.
Zhou Zhi is very familiar with his skills. When everyone listened to his explanation, they had one thought in their mind, that is - this is it? What's so hard about this?
But when I watched him repair the first crack, I couldn't help but have another thought - if it were me, could this crack be so seamless?
After the sense of substitution was generated, looking at the thoughtful restoration, I couldn’t help but feel anxious. When the last step was completed, everyone not only breathed a sigh of relief, but also had a sense of participation and accomplishment. Therefore, The applause was also exceptionally warm and sincere.
The repair is simple here. Next, you only need to paste the new life paper, brush the work on the wall and wait for it to dry.
Next, Zhou Zhi peeled off the other two pieces of calligraphy from the mounting wall, carefully ironed them with a low-temperature iron until they were absolutely flat, and then started the final decoration, trimming, edge banding, and framing.
Because the country attaches great importance to this restoration, and the materials used are very rare, which happens to be Zhou Zhi’s strength. The country has spent so much effort, Zhou Zhi of course has to explain it in detail, so that this cost can be spent Worth it.
When I learned that the paper used for mounting this time was found in China in the same year as the paper that was created, it was made by the same workers or even the same person. The decorative brocade border came from the collection of Qianlong's inner palace. It is a cultural relic in itself, and the outer frame is It was made of top-grade hardwood from Hainan Island, and the host couldn't help but stand in awe.
Of course, the restoration effect is also extremely intuitive. When the restoration and mounting of the two calligraphy paintings are completely completed and hung on the wall, even to a layman, they are great things.
The work is decorated with the "one-color inlaid" technique.
The ears, which are the relatively large excess parts on the left and right sides of the center of the painting; and the ends of the horizon, which are the upper and lower parts of the center of the painting, are all made of brown silk with dark Qianlong pattern orchid intestine pattern.
The bureau, that is, the strip where the center of the painting touches the two ears on the horizon and the ground, is made of vermilion Qianlong Eight Answers Wen Palace Brocade.
The frame is made of old purple avocado, with micro carvings of pines, bamboos, plums and orchids on the four corners, which not only enhances the class but does not overwhelm the others.
Luxurious materials and delicate craftsmanship make today’s works completely new and magnificent.
Three days later, when the restoration of "Reasonable Pursuit" was completed, Li Jianxi came over again, accompanied by two ladies.
(End of this chapter)