How can ancient lacquer art better integrate into modern life?
2024-07-04
The lacquer craftsmanship is a precious intangible cultural heritage in China, also known as the "timeless beauty of the East.". In ancient China, lacquer craftsmanship was widely used in daily life, rituals, and other fields. However, nowadays, many people feel unfamiliar with the concept of lacquer. How can ancient lacquer art better integrate into modern life and radiate new vitality? Let's take a look at the innovative design of a inheritor born in the 1980s. The production process of lacquerware is very complex, including tire making, cloth mounting, scraping, painting, painting, decorating textures, and grinding and polishing. Polishing and drying run through all the steps of lacquerware production, which greatly tests the patience of the maker. Da Qi is not only a material, but also a form of life, conveying the texture and temperature of Eastern culture. As early as the Neolithic Age, more than 7000 BC, our ancestors cut the bark of the lacquer tree, collected the flowing lotion and processed it into paint, which produced a bright, waterproof and anti-corrosion paint, also known as Chinese lacquer. "A hundred miles, a thousand knives, one kilogram of lacquer". It is very difficult to harvest natural lacquer, and a lacquer tree can only secrete 10 kilograms of raw lacquer in its lifetime. In a creative park in Nansha District, Guangzhou, the creation of a large lacquer screen has entered the final stage. Hong Yidong is fully focused, picking up his brush and occasionally adding a few strokes. Traditional screens usually have a wooden frame structure, but they choose to use honeycomb cardboard as the body shape, fully utilizing the moisture-proof and anti-corrosion properties of large paint, combined with the use of blue-green tones, to present a unique lacquerwork. Hong Yidong, the inheritor of lacquer craftsmanship: lacquer has a strong inclusiveness and extensibility, including sculpture, painting, as well as design, furniture, and small objects that can be made. This is a creation based on the concept of environmental protection and sustainability. You see, it is related to animals and plants, which are some of the themes that I am interested in and enjoy. Da Qi, as a natural gift, has a warm touch and is closer to the temperature of the human body; Moreover, after time and people's touch and use, its color and warmth will also change accordingly. Hong Yidong integrates lacquerware into contemporary daily life, and then innovates his experience from lacquer painting creation, "re exploring the relationship between lacquerware and people in daily environments." Through the two main series of "Chai Shao Da lacquerware tea ware" and "Daily paper tire lacquerware," he better integrates lacquer art into modern living environments. Hong Yidong, the inheritor of the lacquer technique: Because paper is prone to becoming soft and damp in such humid weather in Guangdong, and its body will also crack when exposed to water, we need to be waterproof and also address its hardening issues. After we seal it with large paint, frame it with cloth, scrape off dust, and it will not be afraid of these things after it hardens. The main colors of traditional lacquerware are red and black. The ever-changing design, color, and content of contemporary paper based lacquerware make it more fashionable and personalized. Applied in home furnishings, tea sets, jewelry, hanging paintings, etc., it has become both a unique art piece and a daily necessities in daily life, and is also popular on exhibition booths both domestically and internationally. Hong Yidong, the inheritor of lacquer art: All the changes I have made now are actually based on some accumulation of its craftsmanship over the past 8000 years. Essentially, it is still inseparable from this cultural accumulation, but I stand on the shoulders of my predecessors. (Lai Xin She)
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