The traditional architectural carving decoration pays attention to the coordination and unity of firmness and aesthetics in structure, and handles the carving properly, and the image and color are natural and decent.
Huizhou woodcarving, stone carving and brick carving are good at dealing with the true colors of raw materials, which can not only be dissolved in the whole building, but also be as fresh and elegant as ink painting, especially the woodcarving art, which is the icing on the cake for antique buildings.
If you can be there, you will feel that this is an intrusion into the art palace, surrounded by this sculpture art. In this beautiful kingdom, you will linger, and the three-point exquisite and seven-point elegant three-dimensional painting will leave you with endless reverie.
* * * Building a cultural space together
Huizhou residential buildings are mostly surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the residential buildings and their environment are regarded as a whole. Therefore, whether it is the natural environment chosen by people or artificial landscape flowers and trees, they are always isomorphic with architecture, sculpture and decoration, and jointly build a cultural space full of artistic flavor.
There is a small courtyard or garden in the vestibule or court side of the house, decorated with flower beds and pools, planted with flowers and trees and placed with bonsai. The powder wall is decorated with brick carvings, stone carving flower windows, or long stone tables and benches, which makes the building, mountains and rivers, flowers and trees blend into one, and the courtyard is narrow and quite interesting, which embodies the organic function of the building.
What is particularly striking is the white wall, the black tile and the horse head wall, which are layered with the same height, length and clear outline, and are fully reflected here.
At the same time, it is also the blueprint of scenery relief in wood carving. Even the woodcarving of characters' activities, its background scenery is taken from Huizhou gardens.
The image and charm of mountainous areas are beautiful.
There are pines, rocks, clouds, springs and exotic flowers and grasses on the wood carving, which has a typical image of a mountainous area. It also has the characteristics of Huizhou prints, Huizhou bonsai and modeling.
No stone is not loose, no pine is not strange (Huangshan pine, flat as a knife, leafy, verdant and grotesque).
The ever-changing sea of clouds, spreading deep valleys and covering dangerous cliffs, "is wonderful in the non-sea, indeed like the sea", which makes the strange pines and rocks in various shapes put on the magic towel of Wanfang.
The strange stones in Huangshan Mountain, such as people, things, birds and animals, or figurative or abstract, are all at the top of the cliff. Lively yellow monkeys and squirrels, as well as birds, animals, insects and fish with the characteristics of mountainous areas in southern Anhui, are like a musical event of birds and animals.
Although the flowers in all parts of the country are similar, they can also show local characteristics in different environments and locations.
Even the dynamic images of characters such as drama are rarely seen in Huizhou woodcarving. Even northerners and sculptors generally design short, without losing the charm of Jiangnan people.
Personality characteristics of Huizhou woodcarving
The individual characteristics of Huizhou woodcarving can be fully reflected in the image of knife carving, and we should thank those little-known craftsmen for leaving us valuable artistic heritage.
Huizhou woodcarving works are very picturesque, and it is best to look at them from the front. Each picture or group of dedication is on a plane, and the level is gradually deepened by engraving according to the structure of the picture.
Their modeling is restricted by the actual surface of the carving material, and the processing level basically changes on the plane that allows the carving depth, so they have a strong sense of integrity.
From the point of view of carving and decoration, the installation is also skillful and pays attention to the angle of view. The configuration of lace can not be placed on a plane, with rich levels, and changes are sought in unity.
Formal beauty and decoration are hard to separate.
Make full use of production conditions and materials, showing the high universality and beautification of components.
Such as dragon, phoenix, unicorn, etc. In the traditional theme, the individual patterns of flowers are continuous in two directions and in four directions.
The dynamic images of Lux, Fairy Buddha and Lohan in folk themes and characters, such as double happiness, longevity, swastika, eight-part essay and palindrome, are endowed with beautiful and auspicious meanings and applied to all parts of architectural decoration.
However, the decoration in works of art should not be simply understood as embellishing flowers and plants, but its actual connotation is great. The good content of a work of art should be expressed in a perfect form, and it is difficult to separate formal beauty from decoration. Even realistic works are decorative in themselves.
People are bigger than houses and people are bigger than mountains.
Huizhou folk wood carving artists are also good at repairing lightning and so on. Sculptors use exaggerated figures to extract their familiar visual images and apply them to sculptures.
The decorative treatment of Huizhou woodcarving highly summarizes the expressed images and has deformation techniques. Especially the themes of plays, novels, folk customs and stories about China are very similar to stage scenery, props and character activities in composition skills. There is a sense of close-up of drama.
The expression of characters and environment is very concise, and symbols and exaggerations are often used.
In order to highlight the important parts, it often appears that people are bigger than houses and people are bigger than mountains. A room can be filled with one or two heads sticking out.
Combine different kinds of things.
Folk sculptors collect their beautiful parts by observing, summarizing and using their imagination to create ideal things.
Huizhou woodcarving is also good at combining ideal things with realistic things. Dealing with ideal things has a realistic foundation, and dealing with realistic things has an ideal artistic conception.
From the perspective of good wishes, we can combine things that are compatible in different times, different places and even two kinds of life to form a new visual image.
With the passage of time and the changes of ancient buildings, these three sculptures can still be installed as works of art in modern halls and decorated living rooms. They have the ancient meaning witnessed by the years, and have a deep color of folk art, which edifies and enlightens the viewers with beauty.