What is lacquer painting?

Lacquer painting refers to painting with natural lacquer as the main material. Lacquerware is known as "the king of coatings". Although the cutting of lacquerware has reached a certain scale, lacquerware is still relatively expensive. Lacquer painting, as a kind of painting, is no different from traditional Chinese painting and oil painting. However, if lacquer painting stays in the material technique, or sticks to traditional patterns such as pavilions, fairies and ladies, is far away from real life, is out of touch with modern people's thoughts and feelings, and lacks the painter's personality creation, then lacquer painting can't be a painting, but can only be a craft decoration.

Lacquer painting is based on the four elements of weather, geographical location, beautiful materials and ingenious thinking, and adopts the technique of combining artificial and natural skills to draw half a person and half a day.

The reason why lacquer painting can stand in the painting world lies in its unique aesthetic character, which comes from the characteristics of lacquer. Just as ink painting should be based on ink painting and Xuan paper, oil painting should be based on oil painting and canvas, so lacquer painting should also take paint as the main medium.

Therefore, people who are interested in lacquer painting must first learn to understand the language of lacquer in order to do a good job in lacquer painting. A good lacquer painter should be a painter as well as a painter.