Artistic Features of Dongyang Jiulong Woodcarving Craft Factory

Traditional Dongyang woodcarving belongs to decorative carving, mainly in plane relief, including thin relief, shallow relief, deep relief, high relief, multi-layer carving, through-hole double-sided carving, saw-empty carving, ground carving, colored wood inlay carving, round wood relief and other types. It is called "white woodcarving" with rich layers without losing the basic characteristics of plane decoration, light color, no dark paint, and elegant style.

Wood carving material

Dongyang woodcarving is strictly selected, using basswood, white mahogany, camphor wood, ginkgo wood and other materials.

Dongyang woodcarving works of art are generally not painted, but coated with transparent varnish to preserve the natural color of white wood, so that people can better appreciate the superb skills of the sculptor.

There are two types of crafts: painting-free carving and drawing design carving, both of which pay attention to creativity and "painting" and have high artistic value.

Themes and techniques

The themes of Dongyang woodcarving are mostly historical stories and folklore. Screen design is closely related to China traditional painting, with rich and varied decorative patterns. "Full of flowers" is also interspersed with rich sculptures, including figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, animals and so on.

In terms of artistic techniques, Dongyang woodcarving deals with the scattered perspective of height, distance and plane, and uses the scattered perspective of China traditional Chinese painting or the bird's eye perspective of antique woodcarving.

As for the characteristics of composition, that is to say, in a certain plane and space range, its content can be richer than the western relief, and the content of the picture can be fully expressed without the laws of "near big and far small", "Jing Qing" and "false vision" of western sculpture and painting.

Famous artist

The famous artists of Dongyang woodcarving are Du, Huang Zijin and Lou Shuiming. They are called "Carving the Emperor", "Carving the Prime Minister" and "Carving the Champion" respectively, and they are also called "Three Masters". They are outstanding artists of the older generation of Dongyang woodcarving.

The traditional styles of Dongyang woodcarving mainly include "carving style" and "ancient style", and later "micro-carving style", "Beijing school" and "painting style" of opera culture came into being.

It is believed that the "painting style" pays attention to the arrangement of characters' positions, the dynamic changes of characters' postures are many and vivid, and the scenery is rich in layers, contextual, overlapping and unambiguous.

There are many schools of woodcarving in Dongyang, with family inheritance and mentoring inheritance as the main ways of inheritance. Now the main inheritors are Lu and others.

Dongyang woodcarving is divided into "drawing design", "blank making" and "polishing".

Old artists who are good at carving and painting, knowledgeable and skilled can carve directly without making a draft.

When creating a new work, they can draw a picture, then carve it through memory and dictation, while listening to people read. Many people are not qualified for this specialty now.

& inherit the meaning &;

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China is a country that advocates sculpture and is very good at it. Among hundreds of kinds and schools of folk carving techniques, Zhejiang Dongyang woodcarving, which has been tempered for thousands of years, is the most influential and prestigious of all schools.

It is famous at home and abroad for its long history, rich categories, vivid charm, exquisite carving, exquisite skills and extensive performances.

It is a treasure of our nation and a dazzling pearl in oriental civilization.

It contains the wisdom of the people of China and combines the unique temperament and cultural accomplishment of the Chinese nation. This is also unique in the history of world folk sculpture.

Since the reform and opening up, Dongyang woodcarving has also entered a new period with the development of the times.

On the basis of inheriting fine traditions and unique styles, Dongyang woodcarving keeps innovating, moving towards modernization and domestic and foreign markets.

In Beijing Great Hall of the People, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, China People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department Auditorium, Shanghai History Museum, Hangzhou Louwailou Restaurant, Singapore Oriental Palace Restaurant, and many German Chinese restaurants, it has been surprisingly successful.

This indicates that Dongyang woodcarving has adapted to modern times on the basis of inheriting and developing its characteristics, showing the maturity of modern carving technology.

However, great changes have taken place in people's lives in the past twenty years. Traditional wood carvings are no longer used to decorate modern buildings. Dongyang woodcarving's ingenious craftsmanship, ingenious conception and rich traditional connotation have all lost their environment and gradually declined.

It is difficult for modern young people to concentrate on traditional skills, so there is a phenomenon of unskilled and general loss of employees.

Facing the endangered Dongyang woodcarving skill, it must be rescued and protected as soon as possible.

In 2003, the large-scale woodcarving mural "Legend of the White Snake" created for the reconstruction of Leifeng Tower in Hangzhou is an innovative work of Dongyang woodcarving.

Lu, a master of arts and crafts in China, led his disciples to explore the modernization and practicality of wood carving art while inheriting the tradition, and achieved fruitful results.

The work is northeast basswood, the best wood in the woodcarving drawing board.

In the design and composition of the whole set of works, the method of combining multi-layer focused perspective with scattered perspective is adopted, which makes the main characters more prominent, vivid and realistic, and the background more rich and profound.

In terms of techniques, round carving, semi-round carving, high relief, deep relief and shallow relief are "stacked" together.

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, this heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

On June 5th, 2007, the Ministry of Culture confirmed Lu and Feng of Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province as the representative inheritors of this cultural heritage project, and included them in the list of 226 representative inheritors of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects.

In June 2006, Feng, Lu, Huang Xiaoming, Wu Chuwei and Xu Jingbin were awarded the title of "Zhejiang Folk Artists" by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture.

& traditional style and

The traditional styles of Dongyang woodcarving mainly include "carving style" and "ancient style", and later "micro-carving", "Beijing carving" and "painting" of traditional opera culture came into being.

It is believed that the "painting style" pays attention to the arrangement of characters' positions, the dynamic changes of characters' postures are many and vivid, and the scenery is rich in layers, contextual, overlapping and unambiguous.