Tangshan Shadow Play
Yuxian Paper-cut
Xiongxian Lantern
Quyang Sculpture
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Modao folk art is hard to be elegant, and there is a saying that "the more national it is, the more cosmopolitan it is".
Zhang mengjun, a folk artist in Hengshui city, has made dough sculptures, which is a must in Hengshui. This hardworking, intelligent young woman from a peasant family has created vivid and exquisite artistic creatures with her dexterous hands. Flowers, birds, fish, insects, bees, butterflies, fish and frogs, animals of the zodiac, and the images of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea are all vivid and vivid. Not only does it not lose the traditional primitive simplicity of modeling, but also has novel and peculiar exaggeration techniques, even if it is a finger-belly-sized toy, it is quite intriguing and interesting. Who ever imagined that these various "crops are noisy" could travel all over the world and meet big people?
During the Asian Games in Beijing in 199, Zhang Mengjun gave a performance in Beijing at the invitation of China Folk Artists Association and exhibited his works in China Arts and Crafts Museum. Yang Chengwu and Song Renqiong, the leading comrades of the Central Committee, said that it was wonderful to meet each other. Gao Zhanxiang, Vice Minister of Culture, sent a congratulatory message. Professor Zhang Ding, president of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts and president of the China Arts and Crafts Society, called it "a new way for folk art with distinctive features and kung fu", and contacted and negotiated with the foreign trade department to introduce these dough sculpture handicrafts to foreign businessmen. Foreign guests from Britain, Germany, the Philippines, Singapore, Japan and other countries are also competing to buy. This traditional Chinese handicraft, which is full of local life, has such amazing artistic charm! Its facial features are vivid, both in form and spirit, and good in temperament and style. As far as "Golden Hairpin in the Red Chamber" is concerned, its graceful posture and beautiful appearance, such as Dai's clouds and bright eyes like water, are lifelike and ready to move. Its exquisiteness and subtlety have reached the extreme, just as the slender eyebrows are also made of sticky silk, and there is no trace of dyeing.
In the winter of 1988, Zhang Mengjun participated in the first folk art performance held by Hebei TV Station and won the best prize. In December of the same year, she was invited to attend the Guangdong Folk Art Festival held in Guangzhou. In 1989, her dough sculpture works won the best prize in Shenzhen "China Folk Art Fair". Yangcheng Evening News and Nanfang Daily both published reviews and praised him as a "rookie in dough modeling". Secretary-General of China Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood recommended her to join Hebei Folk Writers Association. In 1992, the "Zhang Mengjun Art Seminar" was held in Hengshui area. Experts from Beijing and Tianjin and leaders from provinces and cities attended and spoke highly of its art. In 1993, at the invitation of the China Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood, she participated in the Chinese National Culture Expo held in Nandaihe, which was praised by tourists and art colleagues at home and abroad for its exquisite and unique dough sculpture.
Zhang mengjun was born in dongliuzhuang village, daguanting township, Raoyang county, Hebei province. When Zhang Mengjun was a child, he was a careful person. What adults can't see, she found, what adults are used to seeing, but she thought about it and forgot to eat. There are many attractive rural customs in my hometown, such as getting married to see my daughter, celebrating the birthday of the elderly, and having a full moon for my children. Everything around me is very attractive to her. The big flower cake with the fragrance of earth and the red paper-cut flowers make her often follow the adults who make flower cakes, leaving the owner and visiting the west. She watches what adults do and learns with them. In those difficult years, food and clothing are still difficult to solve, and there is no extra flour for her to study! Zhang Mengjun secretly slowly accumulated some flour and pinched a few small animals to satisfy his strong desire. At the age of 14, she took part in the China Painting and Calligraphy Training Course organized by Raoyang County Cultural System, and integrated the knowledge she learned into her own face flower creation. The modeling, color and composition all took a big step forward. A few years later, the flour flower she made has its own style. In modeling, she emphasizes the animal's head and adopts the method of exaggeration to make the work clear, full of beauty and vitality. In the performance characteristics of color, after using monochrome to shape the body, apply bright colors to highlight the body and focus, so that the works are vivid and fresh. She has created a unique method of "structure borrowing", such as "carp making lotus", in which the fin is the lotus leaf, and the lotus leaf is also the fin, which enhances the artistic conception.
In the past, Meng Jun asked people for advice, but now people are learning from her. She has become a master of noodle making in the village, and her boss invites the West to call her all day. However, she is not satisfied with the status quo, and gradually she feels that her life circle is too narrow and she should go out and break into the world. She walked out of the village courtyard. In 198, she came to Beijing alone and came to the Central Academy of Fine Arts to ask strange experts. Enthusiastic experts have affirmed her works, thinking that her works are exaggerated and unique, and have the foundation of their own. The works maintain the characteristics of folk art and have a strong local flavor. Zhang Ding, the former president of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, told Zhang Mengjun to follow his own path. Don't be afraid of rusticity. What you want is rusticity. If you cross the soil, you will cross the ocean. On the eve of hosting the Asian Games in Beijing, she met Ma Yunchuan, a strong and elegant secondary school graduate. After the autumn of 1989, they tied the knot, and the husband and wife were perfect. Pony is insightful in western painting, Chinese painting and calligraphy, especially in product design. The couple learn from each other, learn from each other's art, and learn from each other's strengths. Make the dream gentleman further understand the law of color, and use the red, big and green colors more carefully. They often go to the countryside together to collect folk songs, seek advice from the art academy, and pursue eagerly on the road of art, and devote all their energy and material resources to the cause of folk art.
Ma Yunchuan is worthy of being a talented husband of Zhang Mengjun, and a new type of young man with pioneering spirit and practical perseverance. He is handsome, smart, honest, loyal to the world and more loyal to his career and struggle. Struggle, he dares to break out of the shackles of secular ideas and fight for his career! He left his job without pay early, and was an artist and entrepreneur in the tide of reform and the sea of socialist market economy.
I wish this artistic couple a better life, face the reality of severity and hardship, overcome hardships, have a happier life, and have a more magnificent youth and career!