Suzhou nuclear carving artists increasingly “young state”

Exquisite carving nuclear

Exquisite carving nuclear

Mentioned master craftsman, the first reaction of many people: It certainly big old masters, otherwise ye have master skills. The general situation of traditional folk crafts are often arise: craftsmen team is aging, and even by a few elderly people in the seven-year-old managed to support. However, in Suzhou, in nuclear carving this line, but completely subvert this understanding, along with Suzhou popular nuclear carving process and the process of commercialization and industrialization, integration of a large number of fresh blood coming in, nuclear carving artists increasingly “the young state “, in which a group of” 80 “cutting-edge nuclear carving showing they are more creative, more into modern fashion elements and aesthetic taste of the unique advantages of the traditional craft areas.

Most curriculum, cutting-edge use of nuclear carving “creative knife”

Yan has just walked into the town of China located in Guangfu Culture City museum treasures craft studio floor, see the “80” when the nuclear carving cutting-edge, reporters can not help but be in front of the fashion tide men scared a bit. Caps, tight T-shirt, jeans, sneakers, if you have a few strings and beads on nuclear carving not handle, reporters simply can not put him together with nuclear carving master. But just in front of the big boys, but it has crafts, nuclear carving artists, folk miniature maestro, Suzhou nuclear carving Industry Association, Yan Gang nuclear carving art studio chief designer, Suzhou olive-carving art director Art Training Center the name of the first series.
Making money overnight
Making money overnight

“I’m fine arts background, in 2006 when it began to get involved in nuclear carving. Fact, as I learned this art to nuclear carving up a lot of people.” In the end the young, simple mutual introduction, Yen just opened the chatterbox. Yan Gang said, had his own art school in Shanghai, who studies in Shanghai master craftsman, sand sculpture artists new studio masters EACH Wang Ding, Shanghai study design works fine sculptural techniques and ingenuity, when the main is sand sculpture, clay and ivory , jade also do some. As Suzhou Dongzhu man he later felt the rise of Suzhou nuclear carving industry, so decisively began to specialize in nuclear carved and modeled after the famous Suzhou nuclear carving knife Supai Guyong Fang laboratory study, specializing in character. Since the foundation has Daogong sand sculptures, ivory, jade, and he started carving on nuclear quickly, and quickly his professional knowledge in art, the use of nuclear carved into their creation.

“I considered nuclear carving style realism, Shanghai’s complex, in my opinion, is too limited to traditional nuclear carving material, and mostly flat, but also more limited in subject matter.” Yan Gang said, may be young comparison of the human mind divergence and trendy, he carved on the creation of nuclear soon formed his own style, such works are to be done before doing tires, such as very innovative subject matter, what celebrity portraits, West angels, five Pluto, fruits, etc. have. And at every stage of the work or the market almost always catch the latest hot trend nowadays to the creation of each piece into his own unique ideas and understanding to form their own artistic style and characteristics. Almost every month, he has a small half the time, he and friends outside the exchange, is not limited to nuclear carving circles, what calligraphy, painting, clay, jade and other industry friends have to pay, from which he received a lot of inspiration. In his words, like they do new nuclear carving, on the basis of solid Daogong, but also good creation.

Variable mentoring teachers and students increasingly specialized nuclear carving art heritage

In recent years, the town of Wuzhong District Guangfu handicrafts: olive nuclear carved products QUICKER Suzhou tourism market, attracting the attention of visitors. This series of nuclear processing crafts carving crafts, Suzhou and Shanghai-Nanjing line not only many attractions, craft shops and antique markets available today, but also extended to Beijing and Tianjin, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and other regions. Some nuclear carving boutique has become “Luoyangzhigui.” It is understood Guangfu Town, Wuzhong District, is currently engaged in the production of nuclear carving villagers have four or five thousand. Suzhou city also has a lot in the past to engage other people carving craft carving huh nuclear activities. Other places in Zhoushan doing carving artists are also many. Total in Suzhou, about the people in the region engaged in olive-carving industry. And more and more young people are beginning to participate in the nuclear carving skills to learn.
Blossoming
Blossoming

Reporters learned that, like painting, calligraphy, sculpture, clay and other craft categories have formed a professional learning curriculum and teaching environment, this kind of learning institutions, training institutions quite a bit, but the nuclear carving circles but rarely have the Suzhou such an environment and curriculum. Many artists are basically nuclear carving the way through study with a teacher, learning from the master that nuclear carving. In the absence of professional and unified curriculum, apprentices are really a kind of “master tape, self-cultivation by individual” taste. Tend to apprentice with a master tape out on learned skills, a difference will be great.

It is seen that case in recent years, Suzhou began to appear professional training center for nuclear carving. Such training institutions, mostly by the young nuclear carving masters unified curriculum professors and courses covering disciplines also more systematic. Yan Gang held in Suzhou, olive-carving art training center in Suzhou is the first batch of nuclear carving professional training institutions, founded on February 14, 2009, the main teachers of all nuclear Suzhou famous carving masters students nationwide. “In the past master Jiaotu Di, now a teacher to teach the students.” Yan Gang, the past few years training centers are mostly young students of tertiary institutions which accounted for a considerable part of it. This professional training methods, just out of the school gates for these students who are quite familiar and comfortable.