Recently, there is a saying that everyone seems to have some opinions on the jade carving master group. The basic reason is that the current jade carving masters are mainly folk artists. It is generally believed that there is no academic theory of the arts, causing them to have congenital defects in artistic creation. Everyone even advocated that folk artists couldn't comment on masters in the future. This argument is somewhat biased privately. It needs to be viewed dialectically.
Let me first discuss some of my own opinions. Welcome to exchange and discuss.
First, Nanyang jade carving itself is an art from the folk. Like Nanyang Han painting, it does not have to be self-deprecating because all superb artistic forms originally originated from labor.
According to the materialist point of view, not only jade carvings, but also all kinds of arts originate from the people, including the theory that is also spread out in the folks. The so-called school-teaching teachings just summed up these mature experiences into so-called written prints for presentation. If you don't have experience, first learn from folk masters and in turn ridicule folk artists. This is hardly worth it. Materialism believes that art is produced in labor, and the wisdom of the working people is endless. Why is it that folk jade masters are now disdainfully stigmatized, and then they must be affixed with alternative labels? ! Objectively speaking, the level of folk art is indeed high and low, but there is no lack of talented people. Their works are eclectic, formally lively and interesting, full of wisdom. The works of those famous artists are even more extraordinary, and they have learned the powerful atmosphere of heaven and earth. Nowadays, most of the jade carving masters who are criticized and assessed are civil statuses. But what about China now that there is a standard jade carving university? The direction of establishing a jade carving university is good, but it is also being explored. The preparatory university jade carving profession is not as rich as the experience of a private master studio. And these universities also have to invite private masters to give lectures. why? The arts come from labor and there are no actual talents in jade sculptures in colleges that do not work without labor. Dissatisfied, please try two years, some folk artists are standing behind the tens of generations of intelligent predecessors, and their generations of true rivalry, even if you are poor in your personal wisdom, you only reached a small class. Of course, you can also explore with the help of sculpture and painting. But Oriental art has its own mystique. There are some core things that you can't see in an arrogant manner (for example, if you try to pick up a small-caliber quadrilateral vessel, remember to level it), so compared to the masters, you should not be too proud of being too early and falling behind. Half of sweating problems!
Second, "heroes never ask the source".
We do not talk about emperors today, let alone talk about jade carvings. Let us first compare the top figures of other domestic art categories. 1, the literary world - Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, primary school drop out of school due to the Cultural Revolution, and turned to self-study. 2. Yang Liping, the master of dance, has never been to any dance school and is hailed as an oriental witch by the international dance community. 3 calligraphy and painting circles - Qi Baishi, a carpenter. No one can match poetry, seals, and calligraphy. 4 The academic circle of aesthetics ----- Zhu Guangqian. Did he originally engage in aesthetics? In this kind of ratio, the problem comes. If you send it to school, you can't be amateurish! What is even more interesting is that the famous painter Wu Guanzhong believes that “Chinese art level is not high and the artist’s cultural level is low, and the low level of education determines that the university can only cultivate craftsmen and train no artists. Now with science and engineering Colleges and universities are also engaged in the art department.Mr. Wu Guanzhong has bombarded the current industrialization of art education and believes that China’s current art is behind Africa.Wu Lao said that the school can only cultivate artisans do not know whether it is biased, but in the current Under the mechanism of cultivating talents, academics should have an objective understanding of themselves, and they must learn to humbly learn from folk art. This position is the origin of art, and then it is not suitable for Chinese jade sculptures that they learned in colleges and universities. The foreign theory of art forms and the advantages of modeling are used to boost the formation of good art interactions. If they strike against each other, in the end, everyone can only dissipate and engage in closure. Speaking of some of Bo’s artistic theories, In some art forms, they cannot explain it, such as Chinese paintings and rubbings, shadow plays, etc. Take Western art theory to frame oriental art forms. These are not quite suitable.The Western artist Picasso, in the later stage, used lines from Chinese painting to deal with shapes.He thought he was wrong all the time and he found a more concise way in Oriental art.This shows that the art theory also has a fusion of Chinese and Western art. In the process, we are firmly opposed to the Westernization of the plastic arts theory. Sadly, we did lack the theoretical arrangement of Oriental plastic arts in the historical changes. This deadly vacuum caused Westernized plastic art theories to invade Eastern models. The magical position is that if you use the language of the modernist alien sculpture to mold jade, you will run out of tune as soon as you engage in it. There are indeed some unclear restrictions that cannot be explained. Under such complicated circumstances, respect for jade carving masters is even more important. The importance of many intangible cultural heritages is firmly in their hands, and they are true heroes that cannot be asked.
Thirdly, the current masters of jade carvings are as difficult as the true and false Monkey Kings. In the jade carvings, one of the brothers is complaining. The general content is that the association is not responsible for the evaluation of the masters. In work, there are many fake masters, and the real makers are buried. The words may not be comprehensive, but there is his truth. However, after all, the domestic jade carving industry association is relatively short. The initial situation was complicated and it took a few years to sort it out. In recent years, the province's jade carving skill contest is live-style, on the spot production. There will be more and more of this form. The emphasis on making talent does not refer to the agenda. It is everyone's heart disease. We can foresee that the production talents will be more and more valued by associations at all levels. After the phenomenon of fake masters will gradually disappear, the various understandings of the jade carving industry will continue to mature, and industry guidance work and assessment work will gradually be standardized. There will be a big change in the year, but also a pure innocence in the field of jade carving. Like everyone, wait and see.
Fourth, in summary, the folk jade masters who are said to be diligent and fast-handed, if they in turn absorb the nutrition of modern art (in fact, everyone is not idle at the moment.) They use the supreme heritage to pass the study and study abroad. Those useful tricks in these art forms will soon reach the point where the schools send these foreign experts to take the folk masters. Therefore, it is important to respect each other and learn from each other. Whoever realizes this is the first person to accomplish. Just as the song of Teresa Teng sings in the song, “The tall betel nut hangs on the tree, whoever comes first and tastes first...†Finally, with a sentence, the school sent, take care not to bring the art garbage into the jade carving circle. The Sanctuary of the East. This is not Beijing 798. Please cherish this self-retaining field of oriental art. Maybe this is our first and final artist garden.
In a word, the masters who come from the people are the true masters, and the arts come from labor, and they must return to the people. Schools are dissatisfied and return to their alma mater, returning from the first chapter of university art.