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Painted Gourd inheritor/Wang Jianfu

Wang Jianfu is currently the vice president of Tianjin International Folk Art Promotion Association, a member of the Tianjin Folk Artists Association, a member of the Tianjin Folk Customs Association, and a member of the Gourd Association of the Folk Association.

Painted gourd

In the historical process of Chinese civilization, gourd culture has appeared early. In a large number of historical books, there are myths and legends of gourd "creation", "giving", and "prayer". The gourd is harmonious with "Fulu", so people often use gourd as the carrier to perform a variety of artistic creations to pin their yearning for good yearning. Painted gourds are one of them.

Gourd painting is a type of traditional Chinese folk crafts. It is scraping the outer skin of the gourd. It is manually drawing a variety of patterns such as landscape characters, flowers, birds, fish insects, auspicious texts, etc. Applying a layer of transparent oil, it is not afraid of water, not fading, colorful, delicate lines, and a strong rustic atmosphere and distinctive national cultural characteristics.

Wang Jianfu liked art from an early age. When he was young, he worshiped the famous painter of Tianjin and the dean of the Nankai Painting Academy, Wu Zengyi, to study the landscape of the Northern Song Dynasty for the teacher. Start trying to put his artistic creation on a gourd with auspicious meaning.

Wang Jianfu's painted gourds are mostly auspicious patterns, and they are made of multiple processes such as washing, cooking, painting, and painting. After years of devoted research, no matter what form of gourd, Wang Jianfu can compose in form, in his hands There is a life, and every piece of gourd is a unique individual.

In order to give the gourd more unique cultural characteristics, Wang Jianfu also deliberately worshiped the Chinese folk artist Shaanxi Malaysp Society Fire Facebook cultural inheritor Zhang Xinglao as a teacher to learn the drawing of the horse spoon social fire Facebook.

Draw a variety of Facebook on the different shapes of gourds. This seems simple, but requires great fixed force and delicate techniques. If you want to draw a good gourd, you must calm down. It will be stable, and the pattern drawn on the gourd will not go.

Today, after years of hard work, Wang Jianfu's painted gourd has been recognized by many insiders. ; The painted gourds drawn in the third China Gourd Contest in 2015 "Old Crafts, New Creative" won the silver award

In 2016, his work participated in the "Finding Tianjin, ingenuity Aesthetic Folklord Art Exhibition" at the Tianjin Art Museum; in the same year, he was invited to participate in the live demonstration of the Tianjin Summer Davos Forum; The prize is included in its publishing album.

In detail, ingenuity shows that it is not only a pleasure, but also a responsibility to create good painted gourd works!

This column was jointly launched by "Well -off" magazine and the memories of the times

Author: Time Memory

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