Chapter 1714 The God Chasing the Ancients
On a huge wooden plate that had been primed, Deng Hehuan, a senior female worker at the Autonomous Prefecture Lacquerware Factory, began to show off her painting skills.
She is creating a lacquer plate imitating the ancient Chu country.
The lacquerware of the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period ranges from large to small, from complex to simple, ranging from large ones such as tomb beasts, bird drum stands, and coffins, to small ones such as ear cups, soup spoons, and hairpins.
But all of them are exquisite and exquisite, especially the patterns. Not to mention hundreds of patterns, they have all been abstracted in an aesthetic sense, achieving the superb achievements of "spirit-like form" and "quietness containing movement" .
During his trip to the Three Gorges, Zhou Zhi saw a lot of ancient Chu lacquerware in the Spring and Autumn Period, and he always had a doubt in his mind, that is, how to draw those abstract and beautiful lines on it, which may be several meters long or coiled like vines. came out.
He is a master of calligraphy, and it is precisely because he is a master that he understands how difficult it is to make such strokes.
It can be seen from the convergence of the strokes that such a dense spiral was completed by the craftsman at a very fast speed, which is incredible.
Now that the confusion is finally solved, the wooden disk rotates in Deng Hehuan’s hand in different ways, with a certain point in different parts as the center of the circle, and coordinates the movement of the right hand holding the pen, and can be Standard circles, spirals, and arcs are formed on the plate.
Of course this is just a small skill. After the lines are laid out, Deng Hehuan will quickly outline cloud patterns, dragon patterns, and phoenix bird patterns on the lines.
These free and unrestrained patterns appear on the plate at extremely fast speeds, as if they are living creatures generated by magic. They are very magical.
In addition, the gaps in the concentric circles must be filled with complex textures such as clouds and thunder patterns, and cloud and dragon patterns. These textures are made one after another by Deng Hehuan, with segments interlocking and exactly the same size. They are simply like As accurate as a printer.
Zhou Zhi finally understood why the patterns on ancient Chu lacquerware are so artistic. It is the same as any traditional Chinese art. To reach the peak, it pays attention to a "familiar flow" and "following one's heart." "Do not break the rules" and "dance in shackles", reaching the state of "Ying people cutting chalk" as Zhuang Zhou said.
Zhuangzi passed the tomb of Huizi at the funeral and told his followers: "The end of the Ying man's nose is stained with a piece of chalk as thin as a fly's wing. Let Carpenter Shi wipe it off for him. Carpenter Shi waved his axe, He waved it over with a roar, and the chalk on Yingren's nose was wiped by the craftsman's stone. After cutting it off, the nose was not hurt at all, and the people of Ying were not afraid at all.”
Zhuangzi himself was a lacquer garden official in Chu State, and he might have seen a lacquer craftsman like Deng Hehuan from Chu State. Only a painter can think of such imaginative prophecies.
In less than a minute, the concave side of the market was drawn.
The painted lacquerware will be sent to the paint room to wait for solidification. After completion, it will be taken out to paint the other side. After the topcoat or smoothing process is completed, it will be finally completed.
Lesoage introduced: "The carving and rhinoceros carving techniques you told us about elbows are not something that employees in the factory can learn in a short while. Therefore, we mainly focus on the actual situation. In the imitation of Chu and Han lacquer ware and the imitation of Shi-e lacquer ware from the island country, we continued to develop Let’s use our strengths in painting techniques.”
“But I tried to play with the ideas you proposed and came up with something. I don’t know if it will catch your eye.”
“Really? Where is it?”
"Let's go to the conference room to talk. The guests are probably all holding themselves back."
"Ah, yes." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "I was so fascinated by Teacher Deng's craftsmanship for a while that I forgot that there was something else. A few of them are fully armed.”
Like many craft factories, the factory’s conference room was originally a showroom. Many of the factory’s handicrafts are listed here, but the latest ones are on the wall. A few lacquer paintings, and a few gourds. "It's so beautiful..." Matsui Zou looked at the lacquer paintings on the wall and admired sincerely.
The picture is a very natural stacked pattern of various colors, like the cut surface of snowflake beef, or the natural texture of marble, but the colors are more colorful, bright and smooth.
Natural, magnificent and magical, just like obsidian glaze, half artificial and half natural.
In human aesthetic psychology, this is a pattern that is naturally close to people, like an abstract painting, allowing people to use their imagination freely.
Zhou Zhi only glanced at it and said in a dumbfounded voice: "Brother Ag, did you come up with this on your own?"
"Yes." Lesu Ag said: "Take it. When I received the picture album you sent me, I combined it The rhinoceros carving technique and the Japanese meat-maki painting technique use 65% raw lacquer and egg white milk to mix into a thick paint, and then use dripping, shaking, loofah cloth rolling, dragging, etc. to apply the primer. Use the material on the board to create a concave and convex surface, wait for it to dry and then Paint in layers with different colors and then repeat this process several times. After the paint solidifies, it is polished. "
"Since each paint layer is different in height, various colors can appear after polishing. The pattern is so close to natural production that personal creation accounts for up to one-third, and the remaining two-thirds cannot be known until the polishing is completed. Therefore, the work can only be given to the work according to the appearance of the pattern after the creation is completed. Take a name.”
"Understood." Zhou Zhi said: "It's like people in our hometown pick up Yangtze river stones on the bank of the Yangtze River. When they see colorful ones with unique patterns, they rack their brains to come up with a similar name. The stones immediately become valuable."
After speaking, he pointed at the wall The previous large painting was created with black, brown-red and gold lacquer and said: "For example, this one is like a buckwheat field. It would be good to call it "Golden Wheat Field"."
"That's what it means! Lesoag nodded repeatedly: "I understand." I mean it!”
“It’s indeed beautiful!” Zhou Zhi said, with a bit of laughter in his voice: “But Brother Age, I forgot to tell you, our country’s lacquerware also has a craft called rhino lacquer. . Almost the same as your current creative method. It's completely consistent. This can't be regarded as original craftsmanship. At best, it can only be regarded as a god chasing the ancients."
"Really?" After hearing this, Lesoage was not only not upset, but even more surprised: "You mean. Is this an ancient method? ”
"Yes, the lacquerware monograph "Painting and Decoration Records" compiled by Huang Cheng, a famous lacquer craftsman in the Ming Dynasty, comprehensively describes various techniques related to lacquer painting. There is a description in it: "Rhinoceros skin may be called Xipi or Xipi." There is a cloud in the article. , those with round flowers and green pine scales are like those with a vat surface nearby. Smoothness is the beauty”
“It means that in the Ming Dynasty, there were painters who were able to apply this process to the surface of large vats and create huge works.”
“As for when people created it. There is a view that this kind of lacquerware technique is Because it was inspired by the horse saddle. "
"This view originated from the records of Zhao Lin of the Tang Dynasty, and was later cited by Tao Zongyi of the Yuan Dynasty. In "The Record of Dropping Geng", he quoted Zhao Lin's view. , those who think that "Xipi paint tools are called Xipi" , the world mistakenly thinks that the rhinoceros horn is not the same. It is a Western horse stirrup, which turns from black to red and turns from red to yellow. It changes from time to time, and the five colors overlap with each other. , so I imitated it with paint tools.'"
"The translated meaning is: when people explain rhinoceros paint, most people think of rhinoceros as the name suggests. In fact, this is a misunderstanding."
"In fact, multiple layers of paint are applied to the saddle. Later, due to constant rubbing, the sunken areas revealed layers of color. The painter deliberately copied this naturally formed pattern and created rhinoceros paint. ”
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