Replacing the Pen with a Knife, Replacing Painting with Wood

Replacing the Pen with a Knife, Replacing Painting with Wood

 
    Replacing the pen with a knife, replacing painting with wood -- a traditional Chinese craftsmanship that is in danger of extinction.Chinese Cork Painting ---- China’s National Intangible Cultural Heritage. Cork painting has a history of more than 100 years, enjoy the reputation of “the First Amazing Painting of Oriental Art Treasures”.
    Using various traditional Chinese carving techniques, substituting a knife for the pen, and carefully carving it by hand, it is made into various themes such as pavilions, trees, flowers and plants, small bridges and flowing water, corridors and winding paths, as well as figures, birds and beasts.
    It can be said that “The very inch embodies the magnificent sights of thousands of miles away”. Each cork painting is a rare masterpiece, was created with painstaking efforts by the craftsmen.

Art application:

(1)  In 1960, the Great Hall of the People was built, and the large-scale cork paintings such as “Fuzhou West Lake”, “Ludao Scenery”, “Quanzhou East-West Pagoda”and “Wuyi’s Spring” hanging on the walls of the Fujian Hall were all made by Fuzhou craftsmen.
(2）The August issue of “VOGUE” fashion magazine--a blockbuster of oriental aesthetic artistic conception performed by Chinese model Ju Xiaowen. The eye-catching headwear in the picture is connected with the black and smooth bun to create a familiar and distant artistic conception.

Collection value:
     The complexity of the craft, the long learning cycle, the lack of commercial empowerment, the traditional craftsmanship on the verge of disappearing. There are no more than 20 craftsmen with this skill, and they are already very old. Moreover, every large piece of work should be completed by several craftsmen, because every craftsman has his own field of expertise.
Craftsmen have their own fields of mastery.
Wu Xuebao, 73 years old, studying art at the age of 8,
Chen Shimin, 53 years old, has been in art for 33 years,
Wu Nanyu, 66 years old, has been in art for 40 years,
Wang Lanzhen, 56 years old, has been in the arts for 38 years,
Chen Junqin, 67 years old, has been in art for 53 years,
Cai Wenze, 66 years old, has been in art for 47 years,
Chen Rong, 62 years old, has been in art for 47 years,
Chen Yulin, 68 years old, has been in art for 45 years,
Ruan Guirong, 59 years old, has been in the arts for 42 years.
Cork materials are environmentally friendly:
    The cork painting used the layer of the cork oak trees as the main raw material, which were imported from Spain, Portugal and Arabia. On the one hand, the cork has the advantages of gas and water impermeability, and no chemical effect. On the other hand, it has the advantages of light and soft texture, non-flammable and anti-corrosion, can be stored for a long time, wear-resistant and elastic, with fine natural patterns and pure and elegant color.The composition of cork is special. It does not contain starch, protein and other substances, so it will not breed insects and bacteria. It is a good choice for asthma patients or people with bad trachea and allergic constitutions. Cork is a renewable resource,you don’t need to cut down trees or damage the natural environment, the real “non-consumption of wood”. Therefore, cork is an environmentally friendly material.

About us

    Who are we? What are we going to do?
    Our team aims to spread the marvelous Chinese culture and craftsmanship, not only the Chinese people will see it, give it due value, and help this craft inherit.

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