God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 803
The shape of this screen is relatively traditional, that is, a strip screen similar to a door panel.

It's just that the width of the single panel of this screen may be slightly wider than the door panel. The width of one panel is nearly [-] centimeters, and the height is about two meters. However, there are only four panels in a set, which is obviously used for space. Smaller places are not the kind of super long palace screens with a set of eight, ten or even twelve or sixteen.

It is said that the width of a strip screen reaches [-] centimeters, which will look a bit bulky, and it will really look like a door panel when placed there, which is not easy to combine and has no aesthetic feeling.

However, there is no sign of bulkiness on this set of screens at all. First, the modern feeling unique to the bright white maple wood is used to dilute the relatively heavy atmosphere in traditional culture, while retaining the unique landscape pattern of white maple wood. At the same time, it adopts a large-scale carving process, and makes some minor adjustments in the shape, so that the screen looks not only not bulky, but more dynamic.

There are a lot of these tricks, for example, the ring plate on the top is made into a hollow cloud pattern, and at the same time, the length of the ring plate is lengthened and the height of the ring plate is reduced, so that the top of the bar screen looks lighter; The originally straight horizontal frame is designed into a symmetrical large arc shape, which improves the sense of flow at the junction of the top ring plate and screen core, etc.

These small design changes may be insignificant details in the eyes of many people, but it is these details that improve the grade of a work little by little. The more exquisite the details, the higher the value of the work. When all the details are flawless, the value of the work is infinitely magnified.

Of course, there is a premise that all details must serve the theme.

The theme of this screen is to make the large screen appear light, and these details all reflect this, and they all serve this theme.

In this way, it is no wonder that this screen is not beautiful.

Therefore, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion just from the depiction of these details - the author of this screen is definitely a master in art, rather than a simple carpenter, a simple carpenter cannot design such details.

However, for a screen, the outer wooden frame is just a background board, and the screen core is the real theme.

The background board is so careful, so where can the theme go?
When it comes to screen cores, materials and themes are ever-changing and diverse. Basically, themes that can carry traditional cultural expressions can be used as screen cores. Many screen cores are made of the same wood as the frame, but they are generally made in shape. , The subject matter focuses on the central position of the screen core.

However, as long as some materials are inlaid on the screen, no matter what the subject matter is, they are very conspicuous, because many materials themselves are very valuable and eye-catching, such as Hetian jade, jadeite, gold, silver, ivory and other materials, even if those materials do not make any The engraving is also very eye-catching.

However, there is a kind of material that is not valuable in itself, but once the creator gives it a high artistic value, it can immediately become the most eye-catching existence-this is porcelain.

In addition to various bottles and jars, there is another exquisite artistic expression form of porcelain, that is, porcelain plate painting.

Porcelain plate painting is a form of artistic expression that uses special pigments to draw patterns on ordinary porcelain plates, and then glazes and fires them. It is a flat ceramic art with a wide range of applications. The most common is in architectural Among them, porcelain plate paintings are used in architectural structures such as walls, screen walls, floors, etc., which are equivalent to ceramic tiles in the early years, but this kind of ceramic tiles are expensive and cannot be used by ordinary people.

The earliest porcelain plate painting art appeared in the Qin and Han Dynasties, but the real porcelain plate painting, that is, the porcelain plate painting that modern people recognize, appeared in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and then reached its peak in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. From the prosperity of porcelain plate painting to the present Today, there are many famous masters who know how to paint on porcelain plates, but the most well-known ones are the "Eight Friends of Zhushan".

"Eight Friends of Zhushan" sounds like a combination of eight people, but it is not the case. Although the founders are indeed Wang Qi, Wang Dafan, Wang Yeting, Deng Bishan, Bi Botao, He Xuren, Cheng Yiting, Liu Yucen, these eight masters, But later Xu Zhongnan and Tian Hexian were added, making a total of ten members.

And at the beginning of its establishment, the combination of these eight people was called "Yueyuanhui", because they were all masters of pastel painting and porcelain plate painting who were exiled to the folk after the imperial kiln factory stopped burning, so they formed a unique style and high level. Porcelain panel painting genre.

Of course, it is a little bit exaggerated to describe the Eight Friends of Zhushan as a genre, but it is not a problem to describe them as a group of painters with a unique style.

The most important thing is that the level of Zhushan Bayou is really high. Whether it is personal level or combination ability, it is an existence that no artist can ignore in this world or in modern times. You can dislike them, but you have to admit their level and ability. ability.

Among other things, just look at the prices of their works in the market. The market transaction prices have always been among the first group. No matter how the porcelain market fluctuates, the prices of their works have always been rising steadily, step by step. Climb to higher places.

In addition, the number of works they left behind is not particularly large, and it has become a scarce commodity nowadays, and even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it, especially the boutique works of Zhushan Bayou are rare in the market. See.

The reason why we mentioned porcelain plate paintings and Zhushan Bayou here is because the screen core of this set of screens is exactly the porcelain plate painting, and because Xu Jingxing suspects that a set of screen cores is the work of Zhushan Bayou.

This set of screens has a total of four screens, one screen core on each screen, and a total of four screen cores made of porcelain panels, but the porcelain panels are painted on both sides.In other words, there are a total of eight paintings on the screen cores of these four porcelain panels, one for each of the eight friends of Zhushan, which is just right.

Of course, he made such a guess not purely based on the quantity, but the style of the Eight Blessings on the screen cores of these four porcelain plates is very similar to that of Zhushan Eight Friends.

Although the Eight Friends of Zhushan Wang Qi, Wang Dafan, Wang Yeting, Deng Bishan, Bi Botao, He Xuren, Cheng Yiting, and Liu Yucen belong to the same genre, there are still great differences in terms of drawing skills and characteristics of works. Ordinary people may not be able to tell the difference, but those who are engaged in art can basically understand it.

Don't talk about others, let's talk about Wang Qi, the leading figure among the Eight Friends of Zhushan.

This Wang Qi can be regarded as a small legendary figure. He actually made a living as a kneader in his early years, and he can be regarded as a person in the Jianghu, but the kneader is the lowest existence in the Jianghu. Mixing food and clothing is a problem.

However, it was such a noodle kneader. After arriving in Porcelain in 1901, his fate was changed.

(End of this chapter)