China News Service, Fuzhou, February 18th (Reporter Liu Kegeng) The second Fuzhou Woodcarving Intangible Heritage Exhibition opened on the 18th at the Fujian Strait Folk Art Museum in Fuzhou.
A total of 86 fine pieces of Fuzhou woodcarving art were exhibited in this exhibition.
On the same day, guests from the cultural circles and sculpture circles of Fujian Province and Fuzhou City attended the opening ceremony.
Wang Qiumei, party secretary of the Fujian Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, announced the opening of the exhibition.
The traditional Chinese woodcarving art originated in the Neolithic Age. It is a folk art with unique charm that people unconsciously produced and gradually formed in the long-term daily production and labor.
Fuzhou woodcarving is well-known throughout the country, and is recognized as one of the four key production areas of China's woodcarving industry with its unique artistic style.
A total of 86 pieces of Fuzhou woodcarving art masterpieces were exhibited in this exhibition, which attracted the audience to watch the exhibition.
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Li Yumin, vice chairman of the China Folk Literature and Art Association, chairman of Fujian Folk Literature and Art Association, and doctoral supervisor, said in his speech: "Fuzhou woodcarving enjoys a high reputation in the Chinese arts and crafts industry. In the exhibition, I saw a gratifying phenomenon. Fuzhou's woodcarving craftsmanship The division is not only active in Fujian Province, but many artists participating in this exhibition are from Yunnan and Guangxi. In a sense, the influence of Fuzhou woodcarving has spread to the whole country.”
Stepping into the exhibition hall, the woodcarving work "Samantabhadra Bodhisattva" inspired by the poem "Psychic Buddha's learning can be obtained through practice, and practice is as profound as meditation" is lifelike.
Chen Zhong, the artist who created this work and the president of the Fuzhou Woodcarving Industry Association, said: "As one of the four major schools of Chinese woodcarving, Fuzhou woodcarving is one of the traditional carving arts in Fujian Province. It originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties and reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The woodcarving handicrafts of the 1960s and 1970s have helped my country's export and foreign exchange earning, and have a very important and long-standing historical position. With the continuous development of the woodcarving industry, talents in the cork painting and root carving industries have emerged in large numbers, provincial masters, senior arts and crafts artists, Super famous artists are constantly emerging.”
The 2nd Fuzhou Woodcarving Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition attracted visitors.
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The work "Revelation" is Lin Xiumin, a master of arts and crafts in Fujian Province, using modern sculpture techniques combined with traditional woodcarving techniques to truly and delicately carve a small portrait of Lin Huiyin, a talented woman from the Republic of China, holding a collection of poems in her hand and looking into the distance.
In the process of carving, the artist borrowed and tried to use the expressive technique of combining the virtual and the real in Chinese painting to describe the face, hands and feet of the figure in detail to make the figure more vivid, while the folds of the figure were expressed in a concise and concise way.
The works show the slender and graceful body of a generation of talented women, their quiet and unrestrained posture, and the graceful image of the talented Lin Huiyin, which gives people the enjoyment of beauty.
A young woman looks at an exhibition.
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Huang Wenming, curator of the Fujian Provincial Strait Folk Art Museum, said in an interview that Fuzhou woodcarving has a long history and a great reputation for talents.
This exhibition collects the works of old, middle-aged and young artists, with a complete range, which fully demonstrates the inheritance of their artistic context, and promotes Fuzhou's woodcarving crafts to look at the world, be inclusive, and move towards a better future while inheriting the tradition.
In the exhibition hall, Fuzhou woodcarving crafts exhibition attracted the audience to watch.
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Fuzhou woodcarving is a witness to the history of Fuzhou civilization. As an important inheritance carrier and precious intangible cultural heritage of Fuzhou's history and culture, it is not only a bright pearl in the local cultural treasure house, but also an important part of the inheritance and development system of China's excellent traditional culture. , carrying a heavy historical accumulation.
In recent years, with the continuous improvement of Fuzhou wood and root carving culture and art, its strong regional cultural characteristics and taste reflect the wisdom and superb skills of the creators, and interpret the classics of the prosperity of Bamin regional culture.
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