Famous arts and crafts artist and educator.
Chinese name: Zheng Ke.
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Date of birth: 1906
Date of death: 1987
Occupation: artist
Graduate school: Central Academy of Arts and Crafts.
Masterpiece: The Legend of Nu Wa, a giant ceramic relief.
Basic information
Zheng Ke (1906— 1987) was born in Xinhui County, Guangdong Province (now Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province). I study in Guangzhou Sacred Heart Middle School. Famous arts and crafts artist, founder of industrial design in China, professor of Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, consultant of China Artists Association and member of National Association for Science and Technology. Representative works include: giant ceramic relief "The Legend of Nu Wa" and so on.
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1927 to 1934, Zheng Ke studied sculpture and arts and crafts at the French National Academy of Fine Arts and the Paris Institute of Arts and Crafts. After returning to China, he served as a professor of interior decoration in the Department of Architecture of Qinqin University and concurrently taught sculpture in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. 1936, went to France to participate in the World Expo design. Then he established industries in Singapore and Hong Kong.
195 1 year, he responded to the call of new China, and at the invitation of Comrade Liao Chengzhi, he resolutely sold his factory in Hongkong and returned to Beijing to work in China Youth Art Theatre. From 65438 to 0956, Xu Beihong, Jiang Feng and Zhang Ding recommended him to be a professor in the Ceramic Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. 1957 advanced technologies such as electric pulse carving steel mold were successfully studied. It didn't take long for him to be labeled as a "Rightist" and undergo labor reform.
1977 At the invitation of the Ministry of Finance, we trained gold coin designers for the country.
Zheng Ke is mainly good at sculpture and carving technology, and has research in painting, interior decoration, architectural decoration, ceramic technology, industrial modeling, metal technology and currency casting. He can be called a master of arts and crafts. Over the years, he has created a large number of ceramic handicrafts in Handan, Hebei, Yixing, Jiangsu and Zibo, Shandong. Mr. Zheng is a pioneer of modern art design education in China and a professor at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. His relief head and ceramic sculptures are very artistic. His reliefs pay attention to "illusion expression", which not only absorbs the essence of modern western reliefs, but also inherits and develops the traditional reliefs in China, forming his own unique relief style. At the beginning of the 20th century, he studied in France and studied painting, sculpture and design courses, such as ceramics, glass, metalworking, furniture, interior, dyeing and weaving. Under the guidance of French sculptor Boucher. He was the first artist in China to accept the German Bauhaus design concept.
As a famous educator, Mr. Zheng Ke has always advocated the importance of sketch in teaching. He requires students to draw 100 sketches every day, and his teaching emphasizes "using more brains and hands-on". When teaching human body sketch, he advocated the word "fast" and tied several carbon rods in a row to draw. Handwriting can be thick or thin, light or heavy, and a human sketch with rich expressions can be completed in a relatively short time. When sketching a human body, he emphasizes dynamic expression and opposes painting on anatomical drawings.
Strict teaching requirements, a lot of homework and correct method guidance make students' learning enthusiasm very high. Especially in the sketch class, the students organized painting at night, which moved Mr. Zhu Yaokui, the teacher at that time. Up to now, Mr. Zhu has often mentioned emotionally the scene of the 78-grade special art students of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts who forgot to eat and sleep. Teacher Zheng also pays great attention to the performance of details. Once when sketching the laundry list, only the general shape of the laundry list was drawn, but the broken characteristics of the laundry list were not shown. Mr. Zheng was very angry after seeing it He asked: Why do you turn a blind eye to the damaged features of the laundry list? Although it has been more than 20 years since it happened in the first grade sketch class, it left a deep impression on me, which made me form the habit of paying special attention to the description and expression of object characteristics when observing and expressing the shape of things in the future. Another time, in the class of drawing a relief head, a classmate couldn't understand Mr. Zheng's unique relief technique. Mr. Zheng immediately threw his relief work face down on the ground and picked it up. At this time, the original high-profile relief head work was squashed. Mr. Zheng said that this is called liberation. He vividly expounded his unique liberation theory "receiving light and receiving yin", which made the students present have an epiphany.
In the course setting, Mr. Zheng has always advocated the theory of "cone nesting", which vividly shows the dialectical relationship between basic courses and creative practice courses. In addition to studying basic courses, specialized courses and theoretical extracurricular activities, these students also learn handicraft making from famous folk artists, calligraphy from famous calligrapher Kang Yin, and three views from teachers in universities of science and engineering. Teacher Zheng also said many times that he would invite my father to give a lecture at the school to introduce the knowledge of mathematics. My father, Professor Sun Shuben, is very accomplished in mathematics education, which can be said to be full of peaches and plums. Teacher Zheng is a plastic arts educator with 3000 children. They belong to the same era. Although one studies natural science and the other studies plastic arts, although they have different interests, they have a lot in common when they are together. They are close friends and have endless topics for each other.