What do you mean by carving Su Gong?

Generally refers to the sculptors in Jiangnan area. Soviet workers generally use relief and yin-yang carving methods. Relief mainly starts with the theme of landscape characters, while Yin and Yang carving mainly carves poems and auspicious clouds, and integrates some characteristics of the times into it. The relief works of Suzhou craft have smooth lines, steady knife skills and free lines, which can give the relief image a strong three-dimensional sense. Works are generally rich in subject matter, changeable in style, pursuing originality, absorbing foreign cultures and linking Chinese and Western arts.

Su Gong's sculpture is characterized by smooth lines, steady use of knives, easy outline of lines, and strong three-dimensional sense to the relief image. Exquisite works need long-term scrutiny, and the so-called slow work produces fine work and strives for perfection. Therefore, Soviet workers in a broad sense are not Suzhou sculptures, but have become the craftsman spirit in the sculpture world, such as Excellence and meticulous carving. Su Gong represents the ultimate and pursuit of a craft.

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Carving techniques such as tooth carving, jade carving, wood carving and stone carving have a long history and exquisite skills, which are valuable artistic heritages in China arts and crafts. The so-called technique is the author's treatment of image and space in woodcarving creation. This technique is mainly embodied in the sense of reduction. Knife technique is like brushstrokes in calligraphy and painting, which can strengthen and enrich the artistic effect of works.

Suzhou sculptures mainly include small pieces of mahogany, tooth carvings, boxwood carving, bamboo carvings, inkstone carvings, seal animal buttons and so on. , and is famous all over the country. Boxwood carving's Lotus Leaves Write Down is in the Shanghai Museum. It is carved from natural stumps, and several surfaces are inlaid with mahogany, forming the vein of lotus leaves. The edge of the lotus leaf is rolled up, dotted with several small frogs, and the overall shape is vivid and beautiful. In particular, the tenon embedded in each leaf pattern is on the reverse side, and the front side is flawless.

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