Classification and characteristics of painted clay sculpture

Fengxiang clay sculpture **** more than 170 varieties of color, including half a person high giant squatting tiger, tiger hanging face, there are small to square inch rabbit, small lion; production of the use of black clay, white powder, skin glue, etc., there is a mold qualitative, stylized, exaggerated, decorative flamboyance rich and prosperous, colorful and festive, the form of childish and lovely, in China, many of the Han folk clay sculpture in a unique.

Colorful sculpture is divided into large colorful sculpture and small colorful sculpture.

Large-scale colorful sculptures are mostly dominated by Gods and Buddhas;

Small colorful sculptures are divided into hanging pieces, coarse goods, fine goods, pinch phase. Hanging piece is a relief form of colored sculpture, showing the front of the tiger, flowers and other images, painted, as a decoration, hanging on the wall. Rough goods, also known as juggling goods, is a molded color sculpture, mostly for the face, children's toys, gods and Buddhas, etc., can be used as a few cases for enjoyment, but also can be mass-produced. Rough goods from the festive and auspicious subject matter needs to start, with full-bodied, simple, concise, colorful artistic characteristics, in the process is also easy to make molds, turn the mold, low cost, easy to operate. In the character portrayal, the craftsmen use the abbreviated and exaggerated art techniques of putting the head, shrinking the hand and going to the neck, i.e., shrinking the limbs and neck, exaggerating the head, so that the colorful sculpture can be in a limited area, focusing on portraying the facial expression, vivid and evocative. Huishan mud people emphasize painting, due to small specifications, sculpture and sculpture processing techniques are very simple, so we must focus on painting, so that it complements the sculpture. In painting, depicting neat, like to use red, green, gold, cloud green and other primary colors, strong contrast, with a strong Han folk atmosphere. At the same time, but also between the original color contrast, to inter-color (such as dark bottom light flowers or light bottom deep flowers), black, white and gold and silver, so that the coordination and unity, so that, although the use of color is small, but the main and secondary clear, the formation of a rich color effect. Fine goods are hand-kneaded fine colored sculptures, the subject matter is mostly opera characters, mostly ornamental works of art. The hand-pinched opera characters in the fine goods use the most typical plots, characters, and dynamics to express the thematic ideas of the whole opera. Artistically focusing on the character face, image, character, look of portrayal. In color painting, pay attention to the face engraving, such as from the Kunqu opera, the tone is simple and soft; from the Beijing opera, the color is rich and decorative. Pinch phase is portrait color sculpture.