Gu Jingzhou's Artistic Realm

Gu Jingzhou believes that the purple sand art from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the present can be divided into artifacts, the best, fine works, calligraphy and painting and other functions. Gong Chun, Shi Dabin in Ming Dynasty and Chen Mingyuan in Qing Dynasty, their works are complete in modeling and superb in technology. They carry forward the purple sand craft and combine it with China culture and art. Their masterpieces should be regarded as masterpieces. In the Qing Dynasty, Chen Mansheng was a figure connecting the past with the future. "Man Sheng Hu" is a combination of purple sand art and poetry, calligraphy and painting art. Even if the skill is insufficient, it is the best if it is genuine. Gu Jingzhou admits that there are many purple sand antiques in history, and he also devoted himself to antiques for a period of time. Although the shape of the pot remains unchanged, with the progress of society, he has surpassed his predecessors in skills. It's imitation, but it's of good quality and a fine product. The popular high-grade purple sand tea set is an energy product. Gu Jingzhou summed up his purple sand career as a trilogy: imitation in youth, creation in middle age and change in old age.

The history of the modeling of monk hat pot

The shape of the monk's hat pot has appeared in the porcelain of Jingdezhen kiln in Longquan kiln in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and blue-and-white and in-glaze red monk's hat pot porcelain was also fired in Hongwu and Yongle years in Ming Dynasty. Purple sand monk hat teapot was first made in Jinsha Temple in Ming Dynasty, and was passed down by Shi Dabin and others. But it was lost in the Qing dynasty, which is why it is difficult for us to see a decent monk hat pot in the Qing dynasty. Because the body of the monk's hat pot is an equilateral square, it needs a solid and profound basic skill of ceramic art and profound cultural connotation in the diagonal connection of clay tablets. The shape, quality and spirit of the Buddhist monk's hat pot made in Gu Jingzhou have been fully displayed. This pot was originally hidden in the hands of a collector in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and now it is hidden in the Hang Seng Hall of Beijing Antique City.

Gu Jingzhou's Achievements in Hu Yi

Gu Jingzhou's dozens of pot types are excellent. His achievements in pot art are extremely high, his skills are exquisite and his materials are extensive. He can be said to be the most accomplished ceramist in modern times, and his reputation is comparable to that of Shi Dabin in Ming Dynasty. The overall modeling of his works is simple and elegant, with vigorous and rigorous modeling, smooth and harmonious lines, elegant and profound implications and rich oriental artistic characteristics. The utensils made by him are exquisite and elegant, with various manners, which can be called "the masterpiece of purple sand art with delicate and complicated style" and praised as "the master of pot art" by domestic and foreign art experts. Gu Jingzhou made a small number of teapots in his life. Sometimes he only makes a batch of teapot in a few years, and all of them require high quality. If they are not satisfied, they will all be destroyed, so the price of his works ranges from several hundred thousand to several million yuan. In the 1980s, the auction price in Hong Kong was 650,000 RMB. Now the price per pot per hour exceeds 6,543,800 yuan.

Gu Jingzhou's profound cultural accomplishment.

Gu Jingzhou's superb artistic realm of pot-making is inseparable from his profound cultural accomplishment. Whether there is cultural accumulation is the most important threshold for folk artists in the artistic process, and it is also one of the important differences between everyone and ordinary craftsmen. Gu Jingzhou attached great importance to this origin and devoted all his life to it. He even read and studied books related to silicon salt, from chemical composition, chemical molecular formula and so on. In the practice of making pots, he has in-depth research on mineral processing, raw material preparation, technological processing and firing.

From the early 1950s, when Xu Hantang, the first apprentice, was accepted, for several decades, Gu Jingzhou was full of peaches and plums. With his own work experience, he asked the young people who studied with him to hone their basic skills and be solid, in-depth and flashy. From selecting mud and hammering mud, we have developed excellent skills one by one. Because of their strict requirements, Gu Jingzhou's disciples have made great achievements, such as Xu Hantang, a master of arts and crafts in China, Qian Liyuan, a master of arts and crafts in China, Li Changhong and Zhou Guizhen, masters of ceramics in China, and Shen Mihua, Pan, and others, celebrities of arts and crafts in Jiangsu Province.