On the basis of inheriting the traditional pastel craft, Eight Friends of Zhushan tried to make a breakthrough in porcelain art and painting. This group of porcelain painters headed by Wang Qi was a painting school that founded the "new pastel" porcelain art. Wang Dafan wrote a poem in his work "Eight Friends of Zhushan Elegant Collection": "There is a reason for the intersection of morality and justice, and Zhushan Association has a new ambition. Feather landscape plum and bamboo, flowers, fish, insects, beasts and people. The painting method only belongs to the north-south school, and the style does not let the east and west neighbors. When we talk about this picture, let's just take a photo of ourselves. " Clearly understand the purpose of their association to seek change and innovation.
members of Eight Friends of Zhushan constantly improve their painting techniques and explore new expression techniques. For example, Deng Bishan used the techniques of absorbing oriental paintings for reference, and painted fish and algae with exquisite portraits. On the basis of dry pastel painting, Wang Qi's figure painting is called "the head of western painting" by post-secularism, combining his early porcelain painting skills and absorbing western painting methods. The head of the figure is depicted delicately and the light and shade are varied. Wang Yeting has a good command of green and blue in pastel pigments, and is unique in using these colors. Wang Dafan developed the method of "floor-to-floor famille rose", in which the pigment was directly painted on the porcelain tire without filling the background with glass white, and then covered with materials such as snow white and water green, which simplified the process and made the painting more artistic. Cheng Yiting's flower-and-bird coloring not only has the elegant side of literati painting, but also has the gorgeous color of meticulous painting, and its color filling technology has reached the level of being used freely and skillfully. Liu Yucen founded the painting method of "Peach Blossom with Water Dots", in which ink pens containing pigments were used to dot-dye the corresponding size of "glass white" background color, which not only had the powder moistening effect of traditional coloring, but also had vivid charm of painting. He also wrote in his own article: "I remember that in the past, when I showed peach blossoms on porcelain, because I didn't have a good grasp of the material, I used glass white mixed with magenta to point out the peach blossoms, and after burning, the color was black. Later, after repeated experiments, I adopted the method of making flowers with glass white first, and then pointing out the peach blossoms with magenta on it, so as to get the effect of Chinese painting." Thus, it is necessary to decorate the porcelain with the best traditional Chinese painting with the most national characteristics of the motherland, so that they can be combined together and become an invincible flower in our national culture. As a ceramic artist, in addition to having rich experience and skills in materials and porcelain painting, you must also be familiar with the techniques of using ink and color in Chinese painting. " Some of these new painting techniques of Zhushan Eight Friends Porcelain Painters have become a technique, which is widely used in pastel painting, and some have become a form of porcelain painting which has been inherited by future generations.
The works handed down by the Eight Friends of Zhushan are somewhat different, with different ages, but porcelain paintings are the main part of your creative career. They like to express themselves on flat or near-flat vessels, which reflects the pursuit orientation of literati painting with "painting" as the mainstay of Eight Friends of Zhushan. According to the information we have at present, we can find its artistic track and understand its personality.
Xu Zhongnan, an old man in Zhuli, studied colored porcelain as an apprentice in a porcelain shop in Nanchang. In his youth, he mainly painted figures. In his middle age, he changed to landscape painting. In his later years, he painted pine and bamboo, and he was famous for painting pine and bamboo all his life. The works are vigorous, straightforward, fresh and beautiful, and unconventional. Calligraphy is vigorous and beautiful, and poetry is interesting. Be peaceful and easy-going, and be at peace with the world.