On Pottery and Bird Techniques

Jingdezhen Ceramics has a long history. Due to different themes, it can be divided into birds and flowers and characters. In the Tang Dynasty, the flowers and birds of the gongbi were formed as a single type of painting and were followed by the Five Dynasties. Until today, the development of the flower and bird painting began with meticulous writing, followed by freehand brushwork. After a long-term historical development, Jingdezhen Ceramic Meticulous Flower and Bird Painting has had a high artistic achievement and has become a unique and unique flower in Jingdezhen Ceramics.

Pottery and ceramic paintings have a long history. Since the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, ceramics, flowers and birds and flowers have developed in depth. The picture is not only neat, but also colorful. In ceramic pots and flowers, both flowers and birds must be represented by lines. Only by fully learning lines and mastering the use of pottery and ceramic pottery can we better reflect the artistic effects of ceramics. To achieve good artistic effects, you must learn the following:

The first is to pay attention to the purpose of pen and seek both form and spirit. In the narrow sense, Chinese flower and bird paintings only refer to flowers and birds. In a broad sense, they include all animals and plants in the natural world except figures and landscapes. They have a wide range of contents and they contain birds, beasts, fish, insects and flowers in the natural world. Things like grass, trees, etc. To create a beautiful flower and bird painting must be full of love for nature and life, full of emotions on the flowers and plants of nature, start with sketching, observe long-term, in-depth observation and experience of the life habits of flowers and birds, understand plant material Situation, careful analysis of research, from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge. Understand the growth of flowers and birds and organizational structure. If you paint flowers, you must first understand its growth patterns and understand its organizational structure. And the variety of flowers, attitude thousands. Some flowers bloom upward, such as Magnolia and Magnolia, and they must draw up their heroic heads. Some delicate and delicate, such as orchids, daffodils, to draw exquisite flowers and stretch the long leaves and so on. In addition, we must understand the flower habits and personality characteristics. Such as pine, bamboo, plum, chrysanthemum, etc. are not afraid of the cold, can Yushuang, Ling Feng, Aoxue, traditionally compare them as a hero who does not bend. Like the pine, it can stand in the midst of winter and wind, so the branches are old and shaped like dragons, to show their character. The plum blossoms are filled with joy and snow. It can welcome the spring in cold wind and snow. Therefore, in the creation of pottery and flower paintings of ceramics, not only must be familiar with the appearance of flowers and birds, but also be familiar with the personality and quality beauty of flowers and birds, and be added to the beautiful sentiments of humans. In the creation of imagery, I create a wonderful imagery beauty with my dual artistic conception, namely, the “image outside the elephant” and the scene outside the scene.

The second is to pay attention to poetry and painting, focusing on the integration of the scene. Through the observation and understanding of flowers and birds in the creation, combined with the poetic imagination, we strive to achieve paintings in poems and poems in paintings. Poetry and painting are sisters in art, that is, poetic painting. Seeking the most appropriate time, specific environment and circumstances, focusing on the most refined parts of the objective things, and adding to the cultivation of people’s thoughts and feelings, through a highly artistic process to achieve a blend of scenes, the artistic realm expressed is also the realm of poetry. It is artistic conception. Artistic conception is the soul of Chinese painting. The so-called “paintings in poetry” refers to the vividness of scenes in poetry, like paintings, and the reading of poems in paintings. Later, “paintings in poems” describe the poetic realm as beautiful, and “poetry in painting” refers to painting. There are poetic emotions, artistic charm and artistic conception in the poem, which means both the aesthetic sensation caused by aesthetic objects of aesthetics and aesthetic beauty, as well as the artistic beauty of excellent works of art. Articles or other artifacts can also be natural objects and natural scenes.

The third is to pay attention to the composition of the layout, highlighting the lively rhyme. In order to better express the artistic conception of ceramic brushwork and bird painting and highlight the theme of the work, it is very necessary to pay attention to composition. Composition is the “operational position” in the traditional six methods, which is also called composition and layout. "Business" is an arrangement, which is an objective and subjective unity. Pottery and flower paintings in ceramics emphasize subjective processing and selection, focusing on the essence, and grasping the main essential things, that is, grasping the characteristics of it, and portraying the prominent image. Meticulous paintings are not natural depictions. They should be deleted and simplified, and they should be bold and simplified, leave blank space, and be more imaginative. Pottery paintings of pottery and ceramics, based on the needs of content performance, are not limited by time and space. On one screen, four seasons flowers can be displayed at the same time. For example, large-scale porcelain paintings created by Wang Xiliang, Qin Xilin, Dai Ronghua, Liu Ping, Li Linhong, Xiong Hanzhong and others were painted on a porcelain plate depicting spring flowers, lotuses, orchids, chrysanthemums, plum blossoms, and narcissus. Four seasons flowers. Ceramic meticulous flower and bird painting modeling rigorous, and has its own unique aesthetic characteristics, in the shape of abandon the changes in the external light projection and color warm, but based on the line as a modeling basis, emphasizing the beauty of the image of birds and flowers themselves. If you want to draw flowers, you must capture the various images and shapes that portray flowers. To draw a bird, you must be good at catching a graceful posture. Make the image vivid and real, meet the requirements of both form and spirit, and enhance the artistic appeal of the work. The ceramic brushwork bird and flower painting style pursues a certain degree of decorativeness. The potters have been processed and summed up. They are made up of smooth and straight lines, dense contours, straight lines, rigid and soft lines, thicknesses, lengths and other contours, depicting flying birds and Grassworms should be clear and true.

In short, in order to express the vivid shape of natural flowers and birds, we must rely on techniques such as pens, pigments, and coloring. Of course pens, pigments, and oils are not deadly programs. The formation and development of these techniques are based on the continuous observation and artistic practice of ceramic artists who create intentions, aesthetic views, and performance objects. The different feelings and the diversity of expression techniques have led to different artistic styles.