[Explanation] Gems are used as paints, with both hands as paintbrushes, and paintings on wooden boards. This is the unique painting method of Xinjiang artist Geng Jiang.
On February 24, the reporter met Geng Jiang who was creating in the gem painting comprehensive art studio.
Geng Jiang's studio is small, only about 20 square meters, but it is full of 2,000 large and small gem paintings.
Twenty years ago, Geng Jiang, who first came to work in the gem company, came into contact with gem paintings by chance, and has been out of control since then.
[Concurrent] Xinjiang Gem Painting Artist Geng Jiang
At that time, I was mainly doing jade carving, and then I started to do gem painting slowly. I followed our teacher to learn, and slowly, with my own talent, slowly entered the gem painting industry.
[Explanation] Years of accumulation have allowed Geng Jiang to collect gem fragments of various colors. The raw materials are made up of various gems produced in Xinjiang, mainly tourmalines, crystals, agates, Hetian jade, and golden silk jade. .
First compose the picture on the wooden board, then apply glue, and then according to the different color requirements of the picture, sprinkle the fine particles of colored gemstones on the corresponding picture area, and form a complete and fixed art painting after the glue dries.
[Concurrent] Xinjiang Gem Painting Artist Geng Jiang
Gem paintings and gem inlay paintings are a kind of handicraft and a handicraft of a kind of inherited culture, but you have to combine it with current things, current materials, current language, and current art forms, so that it It will not be outdated, and it will not slowly disappear.
[Explanation] From being incomprehensible to today’s gem artist, Geng Jiang has his own unique artistic style of gem painting. Based on oil painting, he uses gem scraps to create creations, combining humanities, natural landscapes with abstract elements, and bringing Xinjiang The heavy history is combined with modern vicissitudes.
[Concurrent] Xinjiang Gem Painting Artist Geng Jiang
On the technical level, how to make the big things small, make the small ones thinner and more expressive.
We just thought of slowly breaking it up, after artistic processing, and then letting the material be broken up, its expressive power, when you look at it from a distance, it has a sense of space, so that it can express more, like characters , Landscape, realism.
[Explanation] Geng Jiang was born in the Altay region of Xinjiang and has a unique feeling for his hometown. Therefore, in Geng Jiang's paintings, Xinjiang scenery and urban culture have become his creative themes.
Geng Jiang also told reporters that his biggest wish is to be able to conduct a nationwide tour, so that people across the country can learn about Xinjiang through his gem paintings.
Li Mingfei reports from Urumqi, Xinjiang
Editor in charge: [Sun Jingbo]