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This Yes, the "Painting Salt" team regards "small porcelain plate paintings" as their life
An invitation letter to Qingshe
At first sight, I was moved by the background work. Liaoxin
This world has both a sense of "painting" and a sense of "porcelain"
We must go and have a look
That world mixed with coldness On a windy and warm weekend, Qingshe finally met her good friend, curator Chen Xiaoyu, at this small porcelain plate exhibition.
When I first received Xiaoyu’s invitation, the slogan “Leave beauty for ten thousand years later” took away my heart and soul before the exhibition. Walking around and chatting around the exhibition in the afternoon not only deepened my understanding and recognition of "small porcelain plate paintings", but also saved me from anxiety during this leisurely stroll.
On that day, at the "Painting Salt·Small Porcelain Plate Painting" national tour exhibition at the Beijing Poly Time Museum, 33 painters with different styles and pursuits brought us more than 160 works
< p> Porcelain plate painting, an art form that once went extinct, is still only cherished by a small group of people.A good porcelain plate painting often takes the author months or even years. The repeated trial and error and firing are both maddening and intoxicating. Watch it in Qingshe Come on, TA is full of mysterious charm and deserves to be known to more people.
You have been forgotten in the long river of time
No matter how many sweet words we put on the porcelain paintings, we cannot conceal the "grievances" they have suffered for thousands of years. It is undeniable However, the comprehensive development of "moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor" porcelain painting has been delayed.
As the only country in the world with an uninterrupted history of five thousand years, we have too many shining points to be proud of. Chinese porcelain, ink paintings, poems, songs, music and novels are all surging in the long river of history. For thousands of years, they have shone brightly and created their respective eras.
But with porcelain plate painting, we can see it in the background of any cultural era, witnessing the changes of the years, and combining the warmth of the vessel with the beauty and soul of the painting, but its era But it hasn't arrived yet.
Originally, when ceramics met ink painting, which also plays an important role in the history of Chinese art, it should be a combination of one plus one greater than two. However, porcelain painting seems to have been forgotten by this turbulent river at the end of time.
Zhou Xianfeng's "Intentional and Unconscious Series"
When we collect porcelain, we care more about its value as a "vessel"; the difference is that when we collect porcelain, When doing board painting, you should understand it more as the existence of "painting".
Along with the changes of porcelain, on-porcelain painting added another color to the porcelain, and now it has evolved into the soul-like existence of many porcelains, and this kind of more direct presentation and inheritance of on-porcelain painting The method - porcelain plate painting, while other art carriers are "talking" in the historical chapters, hide in the corner of time and remain silent.
This small-scale porcelain painting exhibition shows the unique beauty and charm of porcelain painting, and also allows us to see that this once-silent art form is silently forming its artistic language and telling its own story. story.
Qingshe knows that in order to make this uncontested art form reappear in front of everyone, there are many efforts hidden in the curator Xiaoyu and various artists invited to participate in the exhibition. Now we see "paintings" The successful touring exhibition of "Salt" in China has also given us hope for the revival of porcelain plate painting.
You are the willful child of fire and mud
When fire meets mud, mutual achievements have undergone a qualitative transformation. Wu Qiang, a senior Chinese arts and crafts artist, once shared in the exhibition, Ceramics is an art of fire, and porcelain plate painting evolved from ceramics is a painting form with its own uniqueness and culture.
Wang Mengqi's "The Years Are Wandering"
Wang Mengqi's "Birds are Better Than Poems"
Did you know that the two paintings in front of you, 33cmx33cm, are just as big as A4 paper? Porcelain plate paintings, large and small, actually have to go through a long and complicated process before they can finally take shape -
To paint on a porcelain body, you must first make a white body, using Jingdezhen's excellent silicate porcelain clay. After repeated rolling to remove bubbles and impurities, after firing, it will become the "paper" for porcelain plate paintings.
Mix mineral pigments and oily substances into a glaze, and use different brushes to outline the white body. This step often requires extra effort. The white tire will not absorb a large amount of water after being fired, and cannot fix the pattern like paper, so every stroke must be done with extra care.
After sketching the basic lines and blending the background color, it’s time for the firing stage that requires luck. Porcelain plate paintings need to be colored and outlined multiple times according to the distance of the picture from far to near, and the tone from dark to light. Each firing is a test of luck.
Flame is an uncontrollable factor. If the temperature of a certain part of the flame is too high or too low, it will have varying degrees of impact on the porcelain. Where the color should be unified, there may be a large contrast in color, and the porcelain plate It may also produce unpredictable changes. This step often needs to be repeated several times or even dozens of times.
The color change of mineral pigments, the temperature distribution in the kiln, the probability of bubbles during the firing process, any subtle difference determines the final success or failure of the painting. Even the same two paintings may have different effects due to the above factors. Even the author is not sure of the status of the final work before it comes out of the kiln.
The more uncontrollable some things are, the easier it is for people to become obsessed with them.
If everything goes well, this small porcelain plate painting will take at least twenty days to reach the final step and become a real work. And this uncertainty, on the one hand, allows him to freely enjoy surprising results that even the author did not expect, on the other hand, it also makes every porcelain plate painting an "orphan" that is difficult to imitate and copy.
You have your own story and soul
Some people say that if you want to understand a writer, just spend a few days reading his novels; if you want to understand a musician, just spend a few days reading his novels; You can spend hours listening to his music; if you want to understand a painter, you only need to spend a few seconds looking at his paintings...
You and I both know that, Behind every good painting is the author's own story. The author has integrated his own story and soul into the painting. If you are a close friend, you can feel it at a glance.
33 painters with different styles and pursuits, more than 160 porcelain plate paintings, Qingshe has selected the most "porcelain plate paintings" for everyone in the national tour exhibition "Painting Salt·Small Porcelain Plate Paintings" at the Poly Time Museum in Beijing "Emotional" so-and-so brings you -
Chen Xiandong's "Ceramic Specimens"
Chen Xiandong's brightly colored and childlike works are very eye-catching. Just looking at the paintings, anyone will be fascinated by them. Unexpectedly, the author of this painting is already over seventy years old.
Li Linhong's "Image Landscape Series"
Li Linhong's works have aroused great controversy. They are not like simple Chinese paintings or oil paintings. Sometimes coarse-grained pigments form rough lines. Sometimes it has a delicate and smooth sense of fine brushwork.
Curator Sun Zhonghua said: “He only created after truly mastering the properties of ceramic materials.
His porcelain plate paintings can almost be called models. Because of Li Linhong, there are many painters in today's "Painting Salt" exhibition. "
Li Yanxun's "Two Pavilions", "Rusty Gully", "Wandering in the Clouds"
Li Linhong and Li Yanxun, father and son, have the same bloodline, but each has given birth to a very different spirit. Different from the majestic and deep ink-colored landscapes of his father Li Linhong, Li Yanxun prefers to use the contrast of red and green to create the artistic conception of the work. Red iron and green copper clearly reproduce an ancient overglaze color variety - red. Green color.
The collision and contrast of colors not only show the younger generation’s self-understanding of porcelain painting, but also the unique vitality of an artist.
Gao Jianjun “Walker”
Gao Jianjun has always preferred the colors and images of blue and white. The clean white combined with the deep and shallow blues is a natural and profound style.
The painter also has his own preferences, but when it comes to porcelain paintings, there are times. Perfect appearance and perfect artistic conception are like fish and bear's paw, you cannot have both. The above picture has the author's satisfactory artistic conception, but it is regrettable because of a few bubbles produced during firing; The painting is clean and pure in appearance, but the artistic conception is not up to the author's own pursuit.
Hong Dan's "Object Image No. 1" and "Object Image No. 3"
A touch of pure white. At the bottom, various objects occupy a corner, adding a bit of fireworks to the fairy-like Baiping, just like the music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and wine we once loved so much will eventually return to firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. < /p>
"Water Bones" by An Ruiyong
As the only underglaze painting in this exhibition of "Painting Salt·Small Porcelain Plate Painting", his presence is among the many underglaze paintings Cai Cai's works are in a unique vein, with colors and porcelain bodies integrated into one, quite a bit of the Taoist spirit of going back and forth and integrating everything.
Dai Qingquan's "Dunhuang Cultural Imprint Series"
< p> Experimentation, innovation, and breakthrough. The derivation of every art form is inseparable from these three stages. Basic color blocks are outlined on the porcelain plate, and then different methods such as engraving and pasting are used to create the overall concave and convex feeling of the picture. and a sense of reality.As the only painter using this painting technique in this exhibition, Dai Qingquan has fully demonstrated the difference in plasticity between ceramic painting and other media. I believe that Dai Qingquan, who has attracted much attention, will Bringing us more novel visual experiences
Shen Li's "River, Nanshan"
The leisurely tranquility in Shen Li's landscape seems to be undisturbed by the outside world. The light from inside hits the painting, reflecting the mist of water with the landscape in the painting.
Suddenly I remembered Yang Jiang’s words: “We once looked forward to recognition from the outside world. In the end, I realized that the world belongs to me and has nothing to do with others. "Shen Li's works allow us to calm down our hearts in the impetuous urban life.
Deng Ying's "Mermaid Series"
Deng Ying uses her own perspective to The gentleness and delicacy of the mermaid series are outlined in the ocean, and the little mermaid swam in front of me from the fairy tale. When I saw them, I smiled knowingly and felt that I saw a free and pure little girl. world. But for me, it brings out a somewhat frightening loneliness that comes from nowhere.
I hope you will still be beautiful after ten thousand years<. /p>
To put it bluntly, the ceramic body used for making porcelain plate paintings is basically just silicate.
However, the paintings presented on this silicate body are. But it shows the beauty of both ceramics and painting, which is interesting and full of surprises. The beauty created by using fire and clay can be passed down for thousands of years. Such attempts and explorations are just like what is engraved on the cover of the painted salt exhibition book. Quote – “Because of their efforts, we can imagine a certain kind of freedom. ”
We hope that this porcelain plate painting, which combines many characteristics of Chinese ceramic art, painting art, and calligraphy art, can be preserved forever, and will still be beautiful and captivating 10,000 years later. We hope that These works that carry the author's soul can still be as dazzling after ten thousand years as when they were first born from the ashes.
We look forward to the revival of porcelain plate painting, and even more to the arrival of the era of porcelain plate painting.
All porcelain plate paintings in this article
were created by artists for the "Painting Salt·Small Porcelain Plate Paintings" national tour exhibition
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