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About Culture of Lacquer Art
History of Chinese Lacquer Art
The Chinese nation has thousands of years history, which left us countless treasures. While lacquer art is the most bright pearl in ancient culture treasury. So far, we have seven thousand years of history in creating and using lacquerware. From The Neolithic Age when we use red lacquer bowls and lacquer painted potteries to the Warring State Period and even to Han Dynasty, lacquerware is widely used and lacquer art had developed greatly. In Han Dynasty, there was scientific and organized method to produce lacquerware. In the Wei, Jin, the Northern and Southern dynasties, affected by painting, people break up the limit of plane coating to create new coloring skills on lacquerware. In Tang Dynasty, people developed gold and silver lacquerware with technique of plane peeling off and carved lacquer ware appeared. In Song and Yuan dynasties, lacquerware became more flourish because of the development of carved lacquer ware. To Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, the development of lacquerware reached its golden period.
The long history of lacquer art is not only the history of technology improving, variety adding, quality improving and effect expanding, but also a history of inviting, creating and exploring. In lacquer art, there deposited abundant history and culture.The beauty of lacquer art integrates material, technique, art and culture. In the new historical period, lacquer art bursts with new energy.
Lacquer Painting
Liquid lacquer is basiclly used in painting. So lacquer painting is the earliest art form in lacquer art. Trace to 7,000 years ago when is in period of Hemudu Culture, lacquer painting began. But for a long time, it was not a independent art, but just attached on wares, which were owned by the minorty and could not be closed by common people. So lacquer painting was not widely spreaded. Since the establishment of New China, artists have combined the traditional lacquer art with modern paiting and created new history of Chinese lacquer painting art. Lacquer painting is a new kind of painting which derives and independs from lacquerware decoration art. It is created by natural raw lacquer with feature of light, wear resisting and easy to collection. The quality of lacquer and relevant description skill decide the quality of lacquer painting. The diversity of art skills and the abundance of materials are the advantages of lacquer painting. Only with both good art skill and excellent basic diathesis, the painter can create a good lacquer painting. This enhance the difficulty of creation, but the same time increase the value of lacquer painting.
Making Processes:
I. Inner -tube Making: 1.select board; 2.coating raw lacquer; 3.smooth the surface; 4.stick with cloth; 5.smooth the surface; 6.japanning; 7.grinding.
II.Lacquer painting Making: 1.clearn up the board; 2.copy picture; 3.japanning; 4.pave with aluminum foil powder; 5.copy again, dry; 6.incise lines; 7.dyeing; 8. japanning; 9.cover the lacquer; 10.grinding; 11.polishing.
The whole process is complex with strict demand. It often need several months even more than a year to complete a production.
Lacquer painting is the perfect combination of lacquer art and painting. It looks serenity, connotation, luxurious, delegant and beautiful and considered as treature of Chinese Culture and Art. It is valuable for collection.
Lacquerware
Lacquerware is a kind of ancient ware. It is made from liquid of sumac.
It is different from other ancient wares because it has three feartures. First, it is tolerant, can be used on wood, bamboo, skin, ceramic, metal, jade and stone, glass and cloth; second, it is with high practicability. The lacquer painted on the surface of wares becomes a film, which is hard, acid proof, water proof, mothproof and antisepsis to protect the inner tube.
Making process(take method of plaster bodiless as an example):
1.design; 2.make motherboard; 3.make out required size; 4.make a molding according to the design; 5.copy the cavity die by plaster; 6.paint with parting agent; 7.paint with lacquer mud; 8.coat with lacquer ash; 9.grinding; 10. stick with cloth for four layer; 11.clearn the lacquer mud; 12.coat with lacquer ash; 13.brush with lacquer mud for fixing; 14.polish and finalize the design; 15.get off the plaster inner-tube; 16.brush with lacquer mud in ware, polish and finalize the design; 17.paint the outside of ware; 18.paint black poshing lacquer; 19.decorate. Laquerware is a kind of art which need to consume a lot of time. It needs several months and even several years to finish a production.
In the 7,000 years of history, lacquer art is not only practical, but also takes an important role in terms of arts and crafts. In both sculpture and painting, lacquer artists have left large number of fantastic masterpieces. It is no doubtable that lacquerware is wonderful work of Chinese art and culture. In recent years, because of the high-speed development of science and civilization, the traditional arts and crafts are ignored. It is a pity. Lacquerware is rich of distinctive Chinese national features. And lacquer art industry is the industry of nation. It expects to be splendid in new epoch under the support of government, the people of all circles and volunteers of lacquer art.
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