Fuzhou craft material

Fuzhou Elephant Garden woodcarving began with architectural decoration and Buddha statues in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and was formed through long-term artistic practice. It has a unique and complete carving technique. Longan wood and boxwood are used as materials and made by sculptors. Most of the works are figures and animals, commonly known as "antiques". Longan woodcarving works are simple and generous, rugged and unique, and the characterization is accurate and vivid. Boxwood carving style is exquisite and realistic, vivid and practical. The appearance of Xiangyuan woodcarving works is characterized by retaining the original color and texture of wood, and it is smoother, more delicate and more refined because of fine grinding. Its exquisite woodcarving skills and elegant and exquisite products are well-known at home and abroad, and the themes of woodcarving have been very extensive, including figures, landscapes, birds and animals, flowers, fish and insects. Root carving looks "rough" and "natural", which is an art of returning to nature. The art of root carving must go through the hard study and practice of "law, illegality and non-illegality", and a work of art must go through complicated technological procedures such as memorizing, painting rough carving, tying branches and modeling.

Unique creation of Fuzhou root carving

After several years of development, Fuzhou root carving has grown from several to more than 300, and the national root carving enterprises are increasing year by year with geometric progression. If you want to occupy a place in the highly competitive market, it is impossible to attract consumers' attention without personalized products.

Because each wood has its own unique characteristics, nature has endowed them with various unique forms. Compared with wood carving, root carving is more difficult to imitate, which is also the advantage of Fuzhou root carving art industry, which is famous for its root carving. At the same time, Fuzhou root carving artists have long realized the importance of creating works and have their own unique creative ideas in their creation. In practice, they actively establish their own brands by constantly learning and adjusting their creative ideas.

Fuzhou root carving is characterized by "natural form as the mainstay, supplemented by a small amount of artificial carving". The artistic feature of Fuzhou root carving is the combination of simple and natural primitive form and fine craftsmanship. Just like the human body putting on clothes, it is lifelike and gives people a real and ingenious psychological feeling. Fuzhou root carving artists make full use of the shape of the root wood to associate and create unique works to attract customers.

In order to improve their artistic level, Fuzhou root carving artists constantly participate in root carving competitions held in various places, and have in-depth exchanges with their counterparts in various places through the competitions, so as to broaden their creative ideas and improve their creative level. Participating in the competition can not only broaden the creative thinking, but also participate in training to improve their cultural level, which is also a good way for woodcarvers to improve their creative ability. Build your own brand. The root carving enterprises in Fuzhou are well aware of the importance of brand, adhere to the concept of "only uniqueness can create value", develop their own root carving career, and promote the regional brand of Fuzhou root carving to the whole country.

Fuzhou cork painting craft

The founder of China cork painting is Wu Qiqi from Xiyuan Village, Xindian Town, Jinan District, Fuzhou. The main raw materials for making cork paintings are cork trees from Europe, Spain, Portugal and Arabia. Cork has the advantages of air impermeability, water impermeability and no chemical action. At the same time, it has the characteristics of light and soft texture, incombustibility, corrosion resistance, wear resistance and elasticity, natural and delicate patterns, pure and elegant colors and so on. The production of cork painting should go through the processes of material selection, carving, splicing and mounting. The beauty of cork painting lies in the application of the artistic technique of "seeing the big from the small" and "a hundred miles of rivers and mountains are in one grid" Products include plane relief multi-level wall hanging, double-sided vertical transparent screen and so on.

Fuzhou Shoushan Stone Carving Skills

Shoushan stone carving art is gradually developed from folk furniture, architecture and Buddha carving, with strong local characteristics. Shoushan stone, carved and carved, antique and exquisite. It is also accompanied by sculpture. Flowers, landscapes, figures, birds and animals are all finely carved, and the style is simple, which is the essence of Shoushan Stone in Fuzhou. Shoushan stone carving is a folk art with Shoushan stone produced in the northern mountainous area of Fuzhou as the material, and the artist uses carving skills and aesthetic processing. Shoushan stone carving skills are mainly spread in Gushan, Yuefeng Town, Xiangyuan, Wangzhuang Street, Shoushan Township and other places in Jinan District of Fuzhou City. Its stone, stone color, stone shape and grain are extremely rich, crystal clear and moist, and there are many varieties. Its techniques mainly include round carving, button carving, fine carving, hollow carving, bas-relief, high relief, inlay carving, chain carving, seal cutting and micro-carving. His works have a wide range of subjects, including figures, animals, landscapes, flowers and birds. At present, the main inheritors of Shoushan stone carving are Lin Wenju, Liu Aizhu, Jiang Yilin and Wang Yihua. There are Guo Gongsen, Lin Yuankang, Guo, Lin Bingsheng, Lin Fashu and Lin Hengyun in Dongmen School, who are transferred from wood carving.

The unique Tibetan woodcarving art has exquisite craftsmanship and high value.

Handmade woodcarving in Songpu Township, Nimu County, Lhasa, Tibet has a long history and is an ancient skill passed down from generation to generation. Matsuura's carvings are meticulous and exquisite, and are deeply loved by the masses. At present, there are 106 sculptors and 494 related employees in Songpu Township. The content of sculpture has also expanded from the initial religious activities, character etiquette and natural scenery to all aspects of social life. Woodcarving handicrafts have also become important tourism products, and traditional woodcarving techniques have increasingly become an important way and means for local people to protect and inherit wealth.

Unique Tibetan woodcarving art

Woodcarving Capital: Building a Global Distribution Center for Wooden Crafts

This year, China Arts and Crafts Association awarded Dongyang the "Woodcarving Capital of China", becoming the only city in China to win this honor, and the Global Small and Medium Enterprises Alliance also designated Dongyang as the "Global Woodcarving Industry Cooperation Base". "

Woodcarving is one of the important pillar industries in Dongyang, with many professional and technical talents. In recent years, Dongyang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attached great importance to the development of arts and crafts industry with wood carving as the core, and established arts and crafts industry association and mahogany furniture industry association to formulate the development plan of Dongyang wood carving industry and enhance the influence of wood carving industry. In order to speed up the cultivation of woodcarving talents, Dongyang City has set up woodcarving courses in Guangsha Vocational and Technical College, Dongyang Vocational and Technical School and Deaf School on the basis of encouraging one-on-one guidance. In June+10, the year before last, the permanent organization of the Woodcarving Art Committee of China Arts and Crafts Society also moved from Hangzhou to Dongyang. In 2008, the annual output value of craft woodcarving, woodcarving ancient building decoration and classical mahogany furniture in Dongyang reached 65.438+04.52 billion yuan.

This year, the wooden handicraft market of Dongyang World Trade City was successfully transformed and upgraded to "China Woodcarving City". At present, "China Woodcarving City" has concentrated tens of thousands of superior products such as woodcarving, root carving, antique doors and windows, carved furniture, Buddha statues and Buddhist tools, bamboo weaving, bamboo art, etc., and thousands of famous four woodcarving manufacturers in China have gathered in one city.

According to the person in charge of China Arts and Crafts Society, China (Dongyang) Wood Carving and Bamboo Weaving Arts and Crafts Fair is a high-level professional exhibition jointly organized by China Arts and Crafts Society and Dongyang Municipal People's Government, which has been held for three consecutive years.