The Inheritance Significance of Pingyao Tuiguang Lacquerware Painting Techniques
Pingyao push-light lacquerware has been circulated for thousands of years. The existing artists of Pingyao TuiGuang lacquer include China arts and crafts master Xue and his descendants Geng and Jia Xinglin. Due to the impact of modern chemical paint and cashew nut paint, the lacquer art with natural paint as raw material is shrinking day by day, which leads to the change and loss of artists, and the quality of lacquer products is declining and in an endangered state. At present, Xue Studio and Lacquer Art Garden have settled in Pingyao County. The materials and files of this skill will be sorted out, Pingyao lacquer art museum will be established, and lacquer art training courses will be held to ensure the inheritance and development of this precious skill. In 2006, Shanxi Pingyao lacquerware painting technique was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Its inheritance and protection is the focus of the follow-up work of "Intangible Heritage". In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Wang Chun, an old artist, was an expert in promoting the luster of lacquer industry. He is good at painting and has created comprehensive techniques such as color erasing and color separation. During the Republic of China, Joe, an artist of push-light lacquerware, absorbed the characteristics of southern glazed painting and the essence of Tang and Song meticulous painting, and developed the painting techniques of push-light lacquerware. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qiao Lao's disciples, on the basis of summing up and inheriting the traditional lacquer art, learned from the strengths of various places and became a school of their own. For example, Xue, a master of arts and crafts, not only innovated "overlapping drums and painting covers", but also created new techniques such as "green mountains and green waters, three gold and three colors". Following the torch of the predecessors, a new generation of inheritors found a new way in the footsteps of their predecessors, and integrated their skills into lacquer art. For example, Liang Zhongxiu, a descendant of Xue School, was not confined to Gu Ni, and dared to innovate and boldly integrated the expressive techniques and personal styles of oil painting, gouache and watercolor painting into lacquer art.