Liu Yucen's Social Evaluation

Liu Yucen's porcelain painting is unique in material selection, composition and color setting. It absorbs the style of literati painting into the field of ceramic art. The whole work integrates poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing, making ceramic works stand out from the complex ceramic decoration in the late Qing Dynasty and become interesting, vivid and innovative works of art. In particular, Liu Yucen innovated the pastel technique and founded the "water point technique", in which the image of flowers was directly pointed out with "glass white" and then with ink pen containing pigments, which made the colors rich and light, and the flower heads more lively and natural, which had a great influence on the pastel flower-and-bird art. The creation of this technique was not only an innovation in technological techniques, but also a brand-new proposition for the pastel flower-and-bird art, that is, the solid foundation of China's freehand brushwork and the combination of pastel ceramic techniques. The "water point method" has absorbed the fresh painting style of people from Ren Bonian, Yunnan and Xinluo Mountain, and has made great contributions to drawing pastel ceramic works. He created and painted Jin Mudan Bottle with Black Leaves, Four Seasons Porcelain Plate with Black Leaves, and Thin-embryo Porcelain Bottle with Yellowbird. Some of his works participated in the 1 6 National Ceramics Exhibition, and some of his works were collected by the Palace Museum.

Liu Yucen also designed a large number of high-grade daily-use ceramics by using water point technology. In the late 1950s, the "Shuidian Peach Blossom" tea set and tableware designed by him for the affiliated factory of the Ceramic Research Institute of the Ministry of Light Industry entered the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse and became the porcelain for receiving foreign heads of state. In this particular historical period, countries that have established diplomatic relations with China have mushroomed, and dozens of foreign embassies have been established. In view of the fact that the decoration of the embassy and the daily-use porcelain are products of Japan, Britain and Germany left over from the Kuomintang era, in order to strengthen national pride, embassies abroad have proposed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to replace foreign porcelain with porcelain with China characteristics and China style. Director of the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs personally went to Jingdezhen to select porcelain to enrich the embassies abroad, and set up a design team headed by Liu Yucen, which carried out a brand-new design from modeling to screen. Finally, the multi-petal and double-petal "Peach Blossom" designed by Liu Yucen was selected and put into mass production. After Liu Yucen's death, his son Ping Liu designed the famous "750 1" porcelain in 1 975 with the technique of "watering peach blossoms", that is, the first task porcelain produced in 1 975, which was collected by collectors at home and abroad and regarded as the "last official kiln" porcelain. There are tableware, tea sets and smoking utensils, which are divided into two kinds: over-glaze color and under-glaze color, over-glaze peach blossom and under-glaze plum blossom. It is necessary to properly control the kiln temperature when firing, which requires both mature kiln technology and high temperature resistant pigments. After 750 1 porcelain was presented to Zhongnanhai, when Mao Zedong met Kissinger again, he clinked glasses with tea instead of wine, although he used "750 1" tea set.

From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, Liu Yucen's Chinese painting "Ada" won the first prize in the first exhibition of paintings in Jiangxi Province, which was published by Jiangxi People's Publishing House. He also innovated ceramic pastel flowers and birds, decorated ceramics with China flower-and-bird paintings, and published many theoretical articles in Ceramic Art magazine and Jingdezhen Daily, advocating that flower-and-bird paintings should have the flavor of the times, pay attention to the ingenious combination with ceramics in innovation, fully embody the beauty of ceramic materials and show the most beautiful things in the world. He advocates that ceramic artists should improve their self-cultivation in literature, history, calligraphy and seal cutting, and only by improving their comprehensive quality can they create good works. So many young artists studied poetry, history and calligraphy under his advocacy organization at that time. Almost all of these young people were outstanding in Jingdezhen ceramic art field.