Creativity brings traditional ceramic revitalizers across the Taiwan Strait

The 11th Tourism Expo that just concluded in Xiamen, the exhibition halls and booths of the cities on both sides of the strait, was full of ingenuity in tourism and cultural and creative products. In particular, products with both traditional art and modern craftsmanship were even more popular. Among them, the cross-strait industry has made a fuss about the traditional ceramic technology.

Chinese ceramic art has been circulating for thousands of years, embodying the wisdom of its ancestors. The science and technology of the new era are changing with each passing day. Through new technologies and traditional techniques, there are various creative applications and new opportunities.

Pathway Innovation: Life of Art Ceramics

Golden Pig Gold Chicken Golden Tea Cup is full of local gold. This is the biggest feature of the Jinmen Hongbo Ceramics Factory in the ceramic exhibition of the Jinmen Hall of the Expo - golden and shiny.

The person in charge, Yan Shaoyu, told the reporter that the Hongbo Ceramics Factory was established in 1978. It is the first private kiln company in Kinmen and has a history of nearly 40 years. While inheriting its inherent skills, it is dedicated to the research, innovation and refinement of ceramic products. . Such as these "bright blinking" ceramics.

According to Yan Shaojun, sheet metal technology is a special product in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it is also a palace royal product. It is a perfect combination of ancient ceramics and gold. Due to the high kiln technology and the difficulty in obtaining raw materials, folk pottery can not produce, so this technology has been almost lost in the past few centuries. “The gold series we see has a very tedious manufacturing process. It requires four kiln firings from the firing, painting, burning, and painting of gold. The maximum temperature is up to 1300°C. The pattern part is treated with special raw materials and used in Germany. The burning of imported liquid gold can only be completed." Yan Shaojun said, this is really a technical job.

Yan Shaojun introduced that in recent years, they have mainly taken private custom routes to truly implement the "art ceramic life, artistic ceramic life", such as the alliance with the Jinye wine industry is a successful case.

They produce custom wine bottles for gin, while paying attention to practicality, but also do not forget the sense of design. In addition, the idea is also used in the orders of other business groups, and even to help newcomers custom wine bottle.

Outside the bottle, the traditional four treasures, they also use modern art as cultural heritage.

Process innovation: unique secret technology world

Jingdezhen, as the “Chinese porcelain capital”, has always led the world’s aesthetic taste with colorful ceramic craftsmanship and stunning ceramic techniques. Especially with the progress of the times, Jingdezhen ceramic artists have also tried to change the ceramic art and form. The reporter learned from the “Jingdezhen Contemporary Original Ceramic Art Exhibition” organized by the Xiamen Le Porch Art Museum that some ceramic art innovations are embarrassing.

For instance, Shao Xinmin, an artist with a knife and a pen, has a unique skill of using a knife to write a pencil. The so-called "using a knife for ghostwriting", as its name suggests, is to use a knife instead of a pen, both for carving, and the beauty of calligraphy.

Shao Xinmin told the reporter that according to the traditional carving method, only the golden stone taste could not engrave the charm of calligraphy. However, he devoted himself to sculpting for more than 40 years, and this “unique secret technique” was created by him.

Take a look at his work, without writing, directly in one step. Runes, cursive script, and body script can be mastered in a variety of fonts, embodying profound calligraphy skills.

As an engraver artist, Shao Xinmin originally focused on the stone sculptures of Baoyu jade. In recent years, he has become a by-catch and entered the ceramic sculpture art. He also lost his art talent bold, dare to only knives in the thickness of only 1.5 cm on the ceramic bowl, Fei Tian, ​​Hua Die, and other traditional artistic image leap on top of thin tires.

There is also ceramic artist Cheng Mingsheng, the original porcelain jade relief, people eye-catching. Porcelain and jade are two very different substances. Common porcelain carvings and jade carvings need to be well-crafted and finished. It can be said that it is very difficult. Cheng Mingsheng uses superb relief techniques to sculpt works on porcelain plates. What is even more amazing is that the finished works are incredibly shiny and lustrous under the light.