There are not many artists who are formally engaged in the dough modeling industry. During the Spring Festival, the business of dough mixer is the best. During the Spring Festival this year, the author met several dough sculpture artists in Yangzhou Slender West Lake, Tianjin Ancient Culture Street and Hangzhou Hefang Street, and further approached the dough sculpture art.
Wen Zhaoguo, a native of Shandong, the hometown of dough sculpture art, is now a member of Tianjin Folk Writers Association and a member of Tianjin Ancient Culture Street folk performance team. His family has been engaged in dough sculpture for three generations. He not only inherited the ancestral skills, but also boldly innovated, integrating modern dance, music, painting and other arts into the dough sculpture art, expanding the expression forms of dough sculpture and constantly subliming the skills. Make a dough sculpture, which is accurate and quick, colorful, simple and bright, simple and honest, and people can't put it down. He sells his stalls in Guwen Street, and the stalls are always crowded with spectators, scrambling to buy. Each dough sculpture costs five to ten yuan according to its size, and it makes a lot of money at the end of the day. Xu is a native of Qihe, Shandong Province, making noodles in Hangzhou Street. He is 43 years old and has inherited the ancestral noodle-making craft. 1998 came to Hangzhou and initially set up a stall near the West Lake. 200 1, he learned that Hefang Street was developed into an antique street, so he rented a booth, and the daily booth fee was nearly 100 yuan. He said that their families are all dough-makers, and their income is not bad. Xu's works have vivid images, exquisite shapes and rich colors. Whether it's red face and beard, brave and loyal green robe Guan Gong, smart and chic the Monkey King, or all kinds of zodiac animals, they are lifelike. He also pinched pictures for real people. This process is complicated, difficult and expensive. In order to achieve a vivid portrayal, he usually reads some books on art and anatomy.
He Chuanjun, a dough sculpture artist in Yangzhou, is a representative figure of Yangpai dough sculpture. His ancestral home is Xinghua, and his ancestors have been engaged in dough making for eight generations. He inherited his ancestral skills from childhood, followed the troupe to the north and south, and created many opera characters. He settled in Yangzhou in the early 1970s, and later set up a stall to knead dough in the pavilion of Slender West Lake Park in Yangzhou. The characters, birds and beasts he created have different postures and vivid expressions. Because of his profound technical foundation and excellent work, He Chuanjun went to Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places to preach art, and was invited to Japan twice to perform art, which won the praise of domestic and foreign audiences for his "superb technology and superb skills". Now that Master He has retired, his skills will be inherited by his daughter He. He Slender West Lake has been kneading dough for five years. In addition to traditional Chinese opera characters and zodiac animals, he also has the image of Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics with local characteristics. His works are simple, spicy and full of exaggeration.
Undoubtedly, the development and inheritance of dough sculpture art relies heavily on tradition, and the scope of inheritance is too narrow. Positioning is always a folk craft, and school education does not attach importance to it. Although occasionally a few dough sculpture artists are invited to the class of art college to teach students how to make dough sculpture, it is only short-lived, and I have never heard of any students from higher art college engaged in dough sculpture industry. The dough sculpture art has been handed down from generation to generation, and there is no special educational institution or educator; The mode of operation has gradually changed from carrying a burden across the north and south to setting up a stall on the pedestrian street in the city. The dazzling array of noodles has become a tourist souvenir, satisfying the curiosity of tourists.
In this era of economic globalization, the strong temptation of urban civilization makes the local folk culture collapse day by day. Folk arts such as dough figurines bear profound folk spirit and are the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation! In the traditional society, many skills have been lost because of the concept of "emphasizing the road and neglecting the weapon". Now 2 1 century, in this era full of intangible cultural heritage rescue, what can I do to save you and my face?
The dough sculpture art was born on the basis of folk customs, but it should change with the times, and change is alive. Along the development path of "establishing mechanisms, organizing associations, expanding publicity, popularizing education, seizing opportunities, advancing with the times and building brands", dough sculpture art will walk out of a brilliant world.
China is a country with a vast territory, rich resources and a long history. There are many folk crafts circulating in this ancient land. According to the encyclopedia knowledge dictionary, "folk arts and crafts" refers to the arts and crafts created by laborers in rural areas, pastoral areas, fishing grounds and towns. Compared with the court arts and crafts, it is characterized by: 1, simple and cheap materials, often taking local materials and adapting to local conditions. 2. The processing is simple, simple and concise, which embodies the healthy and simple aesthetic quality of working people. 3. The author dabbles in a wide range, and his skills are passed down from generation to generation, retaining more national traditions. 4. Strong ethnic customs and local characteristics. There are many kinds of folk crafts, such as shadow play, paper-cutting, batik and clay sculpture. Among them, dough sculpture, as a wonderful flower of folk crafts, has been blooming with unique brilliance for thousands of years.