In July, a Yunnan Jianshui Purple Pottery Exhibition with the theme of "Integration Innovation Sharing Pottery Valley" will be held at the Shiwan Pottery Maker Hall in Chancheng, Foshan, Guangdong.
The specific time of this exhibition is from 9:30 to 17:00 every Monday to Sunday from July 5th to 20th. The guiding unit is the Management Committee of China Tao Valley Work Headquarters, and the organizer is Foshan Zen The Shiwan Town Subdistrict Office in the urban area and the Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau of Foshan Chancheng District are organized by Foshan Chancheng District Yihua Investment Development Co., Ltd.
It is reported that there are 160 works exhibited in this exhibition, including 6 provincial masters Xie Heng, Ma Xingyun, Liu Yehan, Zhang Xinyu, Tian Bo, Mao Yaohong and Lai Hengdong, Li Yong, Duan Li, Xiao Chunkui ( The works of four young and middle-aged senior arts and crafts artists (Langgui) include nearly 50 collections and nearly 100 purple pottery daily necessities.
Jianshui purple pottery is known as "hard as iron, as bright as water, as moist as jade, and as loud as a chime". It integrates calligraphy, painting, carving, inlay, firing, polishing and other crafts. Together with Yixing pottery in Jiangsu, Qinzhou pottery in Guangxi, and Rongchang pottery in Sichuan, it is known as the four famous pottery in China.
Purple pottery lovers and contemporary art ceramic lovers from all walks of life are welcome to visit and purchase!
Link: What you should know about Jianshui purple pottery
Jianshui is a famous historical and cultural city, known as "Zoulu in Southern Yunnan" and "a famous country with literature". There are pottery here with a long history and unique production. Together with Jiangsu Yixing pottery, Sichuan Rongchang pottery and Guangxi Qinzhou pottery, it is one of the four famous pottery in China.
The pottery of Jianshui is world-famous for its purple pottery. The origin of purple pottery may have been buried deep in the ruins of the ancient dragon kiln that collapsed, or it may be deeply buried in the memory of the kiln workers. Later generations can only deduce from the discovered pipes produced during the Daoguang period of the late Qing Dynasty that they were created and burned during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty.
In the history of the development of Jianshui pottery, it has been said that "there were celadon in the Song Dynasty, blue and white porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty, rough pottery in the Ming Dynasty, and purple pottery in the Qing Dynasty". Jianshui purple pottery was developed on the basis of the rough pottery in the Ming Dynasty. Purple pottery is made from five different colors of red, yellow, green, purple and white soil from Wucai Mountain near Wanyao Village in Jianshui. It is processed through complex traditional processes such as drawing, carving, calligraphy and painting, color filling, firing and polishing. Become. Some people summarized it as the twenty-four-character formula of "accurate drawing of blanks, calligraphy and painting by famous artists, inscriptions and yang fillings, scraps of scraps, light decoration, and polishing without glaze". Among them, drawing is a unique skill, carving and filling are skills, calligraphy and painting are the soul, polishing is craftsmanship, and stickers and bamboo slips are culture. It is these unique craftsmanship that complete the extraordinary charm of Jianshui purple pottery.
Jianshui purple pottery products are rich and colorful. Its products mainly include bottles, basins, plates, dishes, bowls, pots, jars, steam pots, pipes, four treasures of the study, daily necessities and many other varieties, which are deeply loved by people. . Jianshui purple pottery clay has a high iron content, which makes the finished pottery hard and strong, with a metallic texture on the surface. Different from other pottery, Jianshui purple pottery is polished without glaze, that is, by "removing the fire skin" (polishing the traces of sintering on the outside of the pottery) and "polishing" (dipping a thick cloth in water and adding fine sand from the river near the village). Grinding (to remove all the scratches during the peeling process) and "polishing" (finely grinding and polishing with pebbles to make the texture as fine as a mirror and as bright as a mirror) are carried out to make the purple pottery vessels sparkle with gold and jade. light.
Jianshui purple pottery pays great attention to fine workmanship, especially decoration. It uses calligraphy and painting engraving and colored mud inlay as the main means. It integrates calligraphy and painting, epigraphy, engraving, inlay and other decorative arts. It has both spirit and form, and is exquisite Unparalleled. Since the Qing Dynasty, many literati and scholars have used half-dried pottery blanks as paper, splashed ink freely, moved calligraphy and painting on the pottery blanks, expressing their deep and nostalgic feelings of ancient times, and making them feel deep in their chests. After the ink falls on the pottery, the artists will follow the same pattern and carefully carve the ink into a mold using a mysterious tool - a "foot knife". Then, it will be filled with colored mud, trimmed, air-dried, baked in the kiln, and polished in stages. The lines present a variegated texture change that seems to have been caused by thousands of years of rust and weathering, so it has the natural simplicity of metal and stone. Coupled with its unique "remnant paste" and "light and bright" decorative techniques, the ancient Jianshui pottery art has been inspired to perfection, wonderful and stunning, with a simple and colorful perspective., pure and elegant, natural and simple appeal, giving people a beautiful and simple tranquility, producing a wonderful "elegant pottery" beauty.
The painting, carving and color-filling decoration technology of Jianshui purple pottery is unique among Chinese ceramic decoration techniques. In particular, the two unique skills of "remnant paste" and "light color" have attracted the attention of the world. According to legend, Wang Dingyi during the Republic of China accidentally captured the incomplete beauty conveyed by overlapping calligraphy stickers when he was making stickers, so he applied the decorative technique of overlapping different fonts to the decoration of pottery. Ding Jiesan created the decorative art of "remnant paste"; and another unique technique of "light and colorful" decoration was invented by Ding Jiesan. That is, according to the needs of the artistic expression of the picture, various colors of mud from light to dark and from light to thick are used to fill in the mud to express the reality and reality of the picture. It has the effect of "five colors of ink" in traditional ink painting, with clear layers and The charm is vivid.
From the late Qing Dynasty to modern times, Jianshui pottery has become an elegant work of art integrating practical value and aesthetic value and has won great honor through the careful cooperation and careful creation of poets, poets, literati and craftsmen of all dynasties. Yazhitang has been highly sought after by collectors since ancient times. In addition to Wang Dingyi’s imitation of broken bamboo slips, others include Liu Guanglie’s Banqiao calligraphy, Wang Shiji’s bronze inscriptions, Wang Kemin and Wang Xiaoquan’s flowers and feathers, Wang Xianbin’s bamboo, Wang Chuishi’s cursive script, Xiao Maoyuan’s landscapes, Shenheqing’s His fish and shrimps, Ma Jisheng's chrysanthemums, Li Guanfu's regular script, etc. are also famous for their time. In particular, Xiang Fengchun, who was born as a kiln worker, devoted his life to the development of purple pottery and is regarded as one of the founders of purple pottery craftsmanship. His landscapes, figures, plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos, chrysanthemums and various fonts integrate the strengths of various pottery families, and he continuously innovates and promotes the two crafts of "Zanpai" and "Light Color", making Jianshui pottery's decorative craftsmanship sophisticated and breathtaking. , becoming the iconic decorative pattern of Jianshui pottery. At present, as a representative figure of Jianshui purple pottery in the new era and an accomplished folk arts and crafts artist, Chen Shaokang is good at calligraphy and painting, and is good at sculpture design. His works absorb the essence of ancient and modern ceramic art and bronze sculptures, and are made with advanced Calligraphy, painting and engraving are done on the pottery blank, and then various clay materials are used to inlay them into colorful calligraphy, painting and seal engravings. After firing, they are then polished with special techniques. They are novel and ancient and beautiful. They have won many awards inside and outside the province, such as "Ten Purple Pottery Remains Pasted". "Comprehensive Stationery", "Fragrance Jar", "Three-legged Pen Holder", etc., and pottery treasures such as "Bogu Vase", "Medium Pen Holder", "Imitation Bronze Table Lamp" are collected by the National Treasures Museum.
Jianshui purple pottery combines practicality and ornamental value, with calm and bright color quality, supplemented by the artistic technique of "breaking off pieces and pasting them together", which has quite a decorative and incomplete beauty, especially those old ones that have been washed away by time and their anger has faded. The polishing during production and the subsequent natural wear and tear of the vessel are integrated into one, adding a bit of depth and age, and containing the vicissitudes of the book, making people think about a purple pottery work as if they are reading history. Perhaps this is the biggest charm that distinguishes Jianshui purple pottery from other ceramics. Doesn't it reflect the thousands of years of ancient Yunnan civilization?
