Chinanews.com, Zibo, January 2, title: Taiwan compatriot "Teacher Qiu Qiu" and his mosaic "fish plate"
Chinanews reporter Li Xin
Using fragments of ceramics and glass, according to the splicing method of mosaics, the shape of Zibo's traditional gift "fish plate" was created. This is a unique art form created by Taiwanese compatriot Qiu Jianming after he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts of Shandong University of Technology.
"I was also inspired by the ceramic and glass masters in Zibo and combined with the mosaic murals I studied when I was a graduate student, to create a mosaic "fish plate"." Qiu Jianming introduced that during the two years of teaching at Shandong University of Technology, he worked in many places in the local area. Ceramics and Liulichang discovered that even some discarded pieces of ceramics and Liuli are beautiful and, if harnessed, can be a new art form.
"So I made a traditional 'fish plate' in the form of a mosaic."
Qiu Jianming is affectionately called "Teacher Qiu Qiu" by his students.
He has also become friends with students who benefit from teaching, "They took me to eat Boshan dishes, fried skewers, and taught me many life tips."
Although he was in a foreign land, the enthusiasm of the students warmed up the Taiwanese teacher.
"In the course of 'Cultural Inheritance and Innovative Design' taught by me, students use fragments of ceramics and glazed pieces to stitch together traditional shapes such as 'fish plate'. Now there are many ceramic glazed mosaics created by my students in the school "Qiu Jianming believes that students can do it by hand from copying to translation, and recognize art through mosaic picture stitching and combination. The combination of hand and eye stitching and the texture of mosaic stacking are more intuitive than drawing.
"Students like this new teaching method very much." In Qiu Jianming's view, Taiwan's cultural and creative industry started relatively early, but the mainland's cultural and creative industry has also advanced by leaps and bounds in the past two years.
And cultural creation must be life-oriented and spiritualized, and include the cultivation of aesthetic education and love of life.
Cultural creation should be open and flexible, able to connect many people and accommodate different needs.
"Everyone's understanding of cultural and creative is different, and we need to seek the greatest common divisor. The cultural and creative industries on both sides of the strait should also communicate and learn more to achieve complementarity."
In 2009, Qiu Jianming "landed" for the first time by taking advantage of cross-strait university student exchange activities, which broke his stereotype of the mainland, and gradually contributed to his eventual coaching in the mainland.
"The arts on both sides of the strait are complementary and can be used for mutual reference." Qiu Jianming said that during his teaching at Shandong University of Technology, he has been actively promoting joint exhibitions of cross-strait artists' works and online lectures by Taiwanese artists.
"Although it is inconvenient for people to communicate during the epidemic, I will invite my master's and doctoral supervisors to give online lectures to the students, and I will also organize cross-strait artists to exchange works and exhibit them locally."
At the same time, Qiu Jianming also invited Taiwanese teachers who have taught in various parts of the mainland to organize joint exhibitions and exchange evaluations of works between schools and regions.
"As a teacher, college students are the ones who get in touch with the most." Qiu Jianming, who has been teaching for many years, believes: "Young people on both sides of the strait should communicate more, and young people on both sides of the strait need to expand their own space and get in touch with more different places and different people. Human life And limited vision, don’t judge things too quickly, it will hinder your connection with the outside world, you need to keep seeing and feeling with your own eyes.” (End)