The Lacquer Painting World Of Zheng Yi-kun

Fuzhou bodiless lacquer ware has a long history.It is art treasures rich with unique national style and local characteristics. Fuzhou bodiless lacquer ware, Jiangxi Jingdezhen porcelain and cloisonne are three major known handicrafts of China. Since SHEN Shao-an initiate bodiless lacquer ware, the technique passes on their families from generation to generation, so, Fuzhou has a name "SHEN bodiless lacquer ware,"After the founding of New China, the state promotes the conservation of traditional arts and crafts, arts and crafts people are widely respected in the community. The fifties, Fuzhou, arts, crafts school, established. Old artists, such as LI Zhi-qing and GAO Xiu-quan, out of the street and into the classroom, teach painting as craft. In the school of arts, crafts, under careful cultivation, together with the impact of painting from France and Vietnam and other countries, a group of young artists began to explore lacquer painting in the country's development. Fuzhou has the inherent advantage in the lacquer manufacturing, coupled with the artist's personal efforts, Fuzhou lacquer painting "In the broad theme of painting, lacquer painting techniques of freedom, the diversity of painting styles, painting connotation of carrying capacity and so on have done a broad and practical significance of exploration, so that lacquer painting from the device to the painting, from the practical art to pure art, "born out" of the change."The generation of artists with ZHENG Yi-kun as the representative of Fuzhou lacquer ware, their work, whether lacquer painting or lacquer ware, are bear the historical mission to continue the past and open up the future. Works everywhere reflects the distinctive flavor of the times and geographical color. Grinding of lacquer as the process characteristics, level of blurred, texture changes and profound artistic conception have always been their pursuit.It is necessary to choose ZHENG Yi-kun as a case to study the traditional painting of Fuzhou. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Fuzhou, known as "paint capital", whether traditional lacquer paint technique or modern lacquer painting, are walking in the forefront in China. ZHENG Yi-kun, now 74-year-old, embodied an era and a group of people. He represent their common characteristics:they are under the tutelage of masters, received strict training in painting and technique, familiar with the skills in lacquer ware and painting; they grow up with Chinese lacquer painting together, devoted a life-long effort to it; their pursuit and spirit are sublimation of their persistent creative work; they set up their own characteristics and different skills, expressing the charm of their personalities through their works.At present, from the existing results of the research, the domestic scholars exploring the lacquer painting in a diversity of perspectives, such as from the painting technique, artistic conception in lacquer painting, the relationship between painting and lacquer painting, the use of painting materials. Talk about Fuzhou lacquer ware, we must mention SHEN Shao-an, LI Zhi-qing soon. We have not start the study in any representative case in lacquer painting painter after the liberation of Fuzhou.I Through oral histories, field research, art science, philology, anthropology, sociology, iconology and other methods to record an old man, who is philosophical in his life and persistent in the art. To point and radiate Fuzhou lacquer painting history; reflect the relations between the lacquer painting art and our life, people's internal and external could be so harmony in painting world. Restore ZHENG Yi-kun to a normal man pursuit of art, he is ordinary, loves his families; meanwhile, in the art world, he forgets everything but the finest days. He goes beyond the mundane world, creates a lot of valuable spiritual wealth for us with his painting skills.