List of Eight Friends of Zhushan

List of Eight Friends of Zhushan: Wang Qi, Wang Dafan, Wang Yeting, Deng Bishan, Bi Botao, WHO, Cheng Yiting and Liu Yucen.

Xu Zhongnan, the oldest, was born in the 11th year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1872), 32 years older than Liu Yucen, the youngest (Liu Yucen was born in 1904). It can be said that Eight Friends of Zhushan have been active in Jingdezhen ceramic art circle in China for nearly a hundred years.

During this period, the Chinese nation is in a turbulent era. On the basis of inheriting China's excellent Jingdezhen ceramic tradition, Zhushan Eight Friends absorbed the nutrition of folk Jingdezhen ceramic art, took Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics as a model and Shanghai artists as an example, accommodated the western ceramic art styles and techniques, devoted themselves to ceramic art creation with the flavor of the times and patriotic enthusiasm, and broke through the barriers of official kilns in Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as a clear spring.

For example, Wang Qi's figures on porcelain used Huang Shen's freehand brushwork for reference to express their costumes and charm, and achieved quite wonderful results.

Artistic contribution

"Eight Friends of Zhushan" is a cultural phenomenon, which is rare in the history of ceramics, but quite common in the history of China painting. The emergence of Eight Friends of Zhushan has a special historical and cultural background. Under the background of ceramic culture before Ming and Qing Dynasties, the task of ceramic craftsmen is to serve the ruling class. Their identity and creation have no autonomy and no natural connection conditions. They are like employees.

With the development of time series in modern times, the identity of ceramic craftsmen has been greatly free and released, and they have the conditions to form an art collection or art society like other literati. They often have the same interests or life goals. As Wang Dafan (1888- 196 1) said in Eight Friends of Zhushan, there is a reason for moral intersection, and Zhushan will have new aspirations. Feather scenery plum bamboo, flowers, fish, insects, animals, people.

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