Characteristics of gold lacquer wood carving

Gold lacquer wood carving is mainly used for architectural decoration and furniture decoration. The content includes figures, animals, landscapes and Buddha statues. Among them, the "lion" produced in Jieyang has many varieties, round lines and strong local characteristics in South China.

Gold lacquer wood carving has its own unique artistic style: in composition, it absorbs the traditional techniques of China's scattered perspective painting; In works with characters, people from different time and space are often combined on the same picture according to the development of the story and the needs of the theme content, which are divided into primary and secondary, up and down, and are connected in turn in the form of "Zhi" or "S", with clear context, clear hierarchy and symmetrical layout. There are a variety of carving techniques, especially multi-level carving, which is generally 2 ~ 6 floors. The hollowing-out carving is most suitable for representing pavilions, flower baskets, crab cages and so on. Both characters and scenery are exaggerated, decorative and tend to be patterned. Some hang screen stickers with gold foil and back lacquer, which makes the carved gold foil and the bottom lacquer set each other off, which is rich and luxurious. Works used for architectural decoration often have only five heads, or the scenery is smaller than people's, the leaves are bigger than people's faces and so on. Although it does not conform to the principles of anatomy and perspective, it has achieved good results because it meets the needs of people looking up and composing pictures.