China News Service, Shijiazhuang, April 29th, topic: Chinese young people promote the national style "out of the circle", traditional aesthetics maintain their popularity
Author Zhao Danmei
The young dancers in green clothes and high buns lightly unfold their sleeves to the beat of the music, swaying and swaying to express the artistic conception of the mountains and mountains in the painting... The dance poem "Only Green" was broadcast on China Central Radio and Television Station "2022 Spring Festival" After the Gala was unveiled, it aroused heated discussions at home and abroad, and also made more people interested in its creative blueprint, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".
While traditional Chinese aesthetics "out of the circle", more people began to pay attention to the cultural connotation behind "Chinese style".
If the inspiration of the dance drama "Only Blue and Green" comes from ancient Chinese landscape painting, then Chinese lacquer painting is a kind of painting born out of lacquer art. Both of them show the emotional connection between traditional culture and modern society. "Aesthetics of Oriental Life".
The picture shows Yao Xiaoqian showing his lacquer works.
Photo by Zhao Danmei
"The earliest Chinese lacquer art can be traced back to the Hemudu culture wood-bodied red lacquer bowl in the Neolithic Age." Yao Xiaogan, deputy director of the Lacquer Painting Art Committee of the Hebei Artists Association, said that China is a big country in producing and using lacquer. The stone age has already appeared, and the wooden lacquerware of the Xia Dynasty was not only used in daily life, but also used in sacrifices, and was often painted in two colors of red and black.
After graduating from university in 2008, 25-year-old Yao Xiaoqian began to focus on lacquer painting research with Qiao Shiguang, known as the "Father of Chinese Lacquer Painting".
"It happened that Mr. Wu Guanzhong, a famous contemporary painter, asked Mr. Qiao to 'translate' his oil paintings into lacquer paintings. I also participated. This also gave me a preliminary understanding of the transformation of traditional lacquer art into modern painting language."
According to Yao Xiaoqian, lacquer painting uses natural lacquer picked from lacquer trees as the main material, uses simple colors, and uses techniques such as inlay and grinding to express rich texture and flowing and subtle abstract beauty, bringing a strong visual impact. .
Although it is a part of lacquer art, Yao Xiaoqian's lacquer paintings are more based on real life themes.
"I use lacquer painting more as an artistic language to record what I see in daily life." On the wall of Yao Xiaogan's studio hangs a portrait of a lady, which he reproduced from a photo of his wife.
The lacquer painting species did not participate in the exhibition as an independent painting species until the 1980s.
"There were not many lacquer paintings in China before. Now, as an independent painting type, the most obvious change is that the proportion of lacquer paintings that have won gold and silver awards in national exhibitions has increased." Yao Xiaogan said that in recent years, some colleges and universities have opened lacquer painting majors , lacquer painting cultural and creative products such as mobile phone cases and accessories are also welcomed by consumers, and the public's awareness of lacquer painting has been greatly improved.
The picture shows Yao Xiaogan making a lacquer painting.
Photo by Zhao Danmei
Not only lacquer painting, but now the national style and culture are blooming everywhere, and behind this is the success of re-creation based on traditional culture.
"Post-90s" Jiang Youqi is an art teacher and a rock painting lover. She started to learn rock painting by herself a year ago.
"Dunhuang frescoes are the representative of ancient rock color paintings. I was inspired by lotus and sheep and started to contact rock color paintings. I felt that the original Chinese things should be made more innovative."
The lotus sheep in Jiang Youqi's mouth is a well-known "UP master" (referring to the person who uploads video and audio files) of a certain video website. She added the traditional techniques of rock painting into modern language, and made a video of her creative process and experience and uploaded it to the Internet , one of the videos about drawing group portraits of contemporary national style ladies, so far, it has been viewed more than 7.46 million times on the video website Bilibili.
Jiang Youqi said that Lianyang used rock color to paint the cover of the new book of Nanpai Sanshu, the author of "Notes on Tomb Raiders", and created rock color-style promotional posters for the characters in the mobile game "Glory of the King".
"She is not simply replicating or piling up national styles, but incorporating Chinese elements that contemporary young people like. This is what I admire." Jiang Youqi said that now, in addition to learning traditional rock painting, she herself has also begun to experiment in her works. Add some of your favorite anime elements to it.
In May 2021, the Baidu 2021 Guochao Pride Search Big Data jointly released by Baidu and the People’s Daily Online Research Institute shows that the search popularity of “national tide culture” has increased by 128% in the past ten years.
In addition, Bilibili’s statistics also show similar results: nearly 90% of Guofeng fans are Generation Z.
Young people have become the group most enthusiastic about the inheritance and revival of traditional culture.
"Nowadays, many young people have become 'true fans' of the national style. I hope that through the efforts of our generation, traditional culture can enter the hearts of more young people." Jiang Youqi said.
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