Chapter 193: It is not an exaggerated traditional totem to represent China

The finalist show of the Hanbo Award began.

The first to take the stage was a designer from Hong Kong.

Because of its special status, Hong Kong has always been known as the fashion capital of China.

Compared with the mainland, Hong Kong's fashion culture is more developed, which is determined by a special historical moment, and compared with the mainland, Hong Kong people are more likely to accept Western culture, who let them be colonized by the British for so many years.

Similarly, Hong Kong people are actually very good at inheriting traditional culture, as evidenced by the fact that Hong Kong and Taiwan still insist on using traditional Chinese characters.

Of course, the use of traditional Chinese characters is not only due to cultural inheritance, but also for political reasons, but in any case, Hong Kong people will have a deeper understanding of Chinese painting than foreigners.

The other party's design works use the technique of splashing ink, and integrate the painting techniques of Chinese painting into his own works.

And in his works, you can even see the shadow of the works of the famous painter Zhang Daqian.

Whether at home or abroad, Zhang Daqian is very famous.

In the 50s of the 20th century, Zhang Daqian traveled around the world and gained great international fame, and was praised by the Western art world as "the pen of the East". Together with his second brother Zhang Shanzi Kunzhong, he founded the "Dafengtang School", which was the most legendary ink-splashing painter in the 20th century.

He is particularly accomplished in landscape painting. After living abroad, he combined the style of painting and writing, and integrated heavy color and ink painting, especially splashing ink and splashing color, creating a new artistic style.

Therefore, the Hong Kong designer's work and his design concept come from Zhang Daqian's work.

Lin Zhengrong is no stranger to Zhang Daqian, in fact, many people in China are no strangers to Zhang Daqian.

The other party's "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River" is one of the representative works of modern classic Chinese painting.

Zhang Daqian is very famous, in addition to the works, the inscription on the Dunhuang murals of the other party has also caused a lot of controversy.

However, no matter how controversial he is, it cannot offset his influence in contemporary Chinese painting.

The technique of splashing ink is integrated into the design, which is a very conventional Chinese style design element, not to mention how amazing, but coupled with the other party's design of the structure and the production of pure handwork, his works have been upgraded a lot.

At least there is no problem in being selected for the finals of the Hanbo Awards.

As the saying goes, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, there are designers from Hong Kong, and designers from other two places are also indispensable.

Macau's designer chose another famous painter - Xu Beihong.

Qi Baishi's shrimp and Xu Beihong's horse are all works that go deep into the psychology of the public.

It is also normal for the other party to choose to integrate Xu Beihong's painting style into fashion design.

There are also designers who choose Qi Baishi's work style to integrate into it.

Even the works of the contestants from Treasure Island also appeared in the "Shu River Map" in the collection of the Taipei National Museum of History, which belongs to the category of landscape painting.

In addition to the players from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, there is another type of person who is shortlisted for the finals, that is, Chinese.

For example, a Chinese designer from the United States, the other party's work is Tang costume.

It is not the clothing of the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang costume style of Tang clothing that emerged from Chinatown in the United States.

Of course, it is appropriate to call it Tang costume.

This thing is not only prevalent in Chinese settlements abroad, but also scrapes back to China and blows more violently.

Nowadays, Tang costumes have been integrated into the lives of Chinese people and have become a popular clothing in life.

In addition to the style of Tang costumes, the colors also fully reflect the characteristics of China, and the use of ornaments is to add the flower and bird patterns of Chinese painting, white drawing techniques and calligraphy seals, etc., so as to add a distinctive Chinese style.

Therefore, the other party made use of Tang costumes, and then integrated them into Chinese painting, which was a very clever thing, but it was perfectly used by him.

The whole scene of the Han Silk Award is like a contest between famous Chinese paintings for thousands of years through time and space.

Because in addition to the famous painters of modern times, there are also ancient painters, Wu Daozi, who is also known as the "saint of painting", and the painting style is also used by other designers.

Of the 25 contestants, not all of them chose a specific painter's style.

Because the theme of the entire Hanbo Award is Chinese painting, not simple and rough Chinese style.

It is not necessary to have Chinese elements to represent the theme of Chinese painting.

Chinese painting pursues lyricism, elegance and ethereal realm, and this aesthetic conception is precisely in line with the aesthetic concept of modern clothing design, that is, the flexible appeal to the spatial level of clothing.

The color of traditional Chinese painting is divided into five colors, and the visual interest is the combination of ink and color, or the coordination and symbiosis between the picture and the bottom.

Modern fashion designers have discovered the treasures of their ancestors and are looking for a link between rice paper and fabric.

It tries to graft the freehand colors conveyed by the infiltration and immersion of rice paper and ink onto modern textile fabrics, so that the illusionary colors that are infiltrated and blended with virtual and real can reconcile the tension and fatigue of modern life.

Anyway, it is good to apply the elements of Chinese painting to fashion.

Of course, the design of Chinese painting is not limited to fashion.

In the previous life, Lu Yushun and Ji Lianbin of the Chinese Painting Academy combined the Chinese painting series "Meditation on the Eight Desolations" and "Auspicious Clouds" with the Alpine Ni sports brand from the Czech Republic to design and produce ski suits at the exhibition site.

The design concept and cultural symbols of the whole ski suit are based on Chinese paintings.

After the second creation of the Czech fashion designer, the elements in the works of the two artists were extracted and materialized into shapes, colors, ornaments, textures and other art forms to solidify on the clothing.

Combined with the special requirements of sports apparel and international design language, it finally presents ski wear covering a variety of concepts such as ethnicity, culture, art, and sports.

This is a kind of use of Chinese painting.

However, sportswear cannot appear in the show of the Hanbo Awards after all.

Fashion Week, Fashion Week, the main brands are focused on fashion, and similarly, the design of the Hanbo Award is also placed on fashion.

It doesn't have to be a restriction for men and women, but it has to be fashion, there's no doubt about that.

In addition to Chinese painting techniques, it also incorporates the patterns of specific classic paintings, such as a buddy from South Africa who directly made "So Many Delicate Rivers and Mountains" in the Great Hall of the People in his works.

He also blends Chinese painting with ancient African tribal totems, making his works look equally distinctive, so sometimes, you have to admire the cunning of foreigners.

In fact, the contestants who fused the elements of Chinese painting with tribal totems were not only African black buddies, but also players from South America.

People also have their own tribal totems.

For example, the contestants from South America directly combined the elements of gods and totems in the Yama culture of the Indians with Chinese paintings.

The use of this totem in clothing has existed since ancient times.

On the show of many big names, the shadow of the totem will appear.

This kind of thing is very keen on fashion design, because totem is the thing that can intuitively represent national culture.

China also has its own totem culture.

The basic elements in traditional Chinese totem patterns are often derived from the flora and fauna, landscapes and human fantasies in nature. For example, the cloud and thunder pattern comes from the clouds and thunder and lightning in nature, the flower totem comes from all kinds of flowers in nature, and the dragon totem comes from the fantasy of human beings.

This thing is what Wang Guodong is best at.

This time, his work is still a dragon, but it is no longer the golden five-clawed golden dragon, in fact, it is not the dragon totem that can be shortlisted for the Hanbo Award if it is not a dragon totem into fashion.

Therefore, when choosing the elements of Chinese painting, he was also very careful.

Among the Chinese paintings, there are not many works based on Chinese dragons.

The Chinese painting "Yao Chi Qiu Huan" is based on the shape of the dragon. The ancestors called the dragon that did not give birth to horns as a dragon.

In ancient documents, it is noted: "There are horns called dragons, and there are no horns called dragons." The other says that the young dragon is only called after it has horns.

Although there are discrepancies between the two theories, both refer to the growing dragon as Qiu, and the horns have become a sign of distinguishing Qiu.

The ancient book "Hug Puzi" has such a record: "The female dragon is called Jiao, and the child dragon is called Qiu." ”

In any case, Qiu is a growing dragon.

The appearance of beard and elbow hair in dragons began in the Han Dynasty. The dragon shape of the Han portrait stone is mainly a beast body dragon, the body of the dragon is shorter, like a tiger and a horse, the neck is long and the tail is thin, the difference between the neck, trunk and tail of the dragon is very obvious, and the tail of the dragon is similar to the tail of the tiger. The dragon's four legs still retain the claw shape of a beast, and the characteristics of the eagle's claw are not obvious.

Its image has a strong strength and an ancient momentum. The Chinese painting "Descendants of the Dragon" is based on the shape of the beast body and dragon.

And Wang Guodong's work, the name is "Descendants of the Dragon", which is a very official work.

The descendants of Yan and Huang, who claim to be the descendants of the dragon, have seized this point and spared no effort to temporarily bring out his creative ideas.

To be honest, Wang Guodong is indeed a talented guy.

This can be seen from the fact that he was able to become a ghostwriter for Lee Ming-che.

In fact, not only from Lee Ming-che, but also from Chestnut's attitude towards him can prove this.

There are not many guys who can make the arrogant class adults willingly call them seniors.

Well, Li Datong is one, and Wang Guodong is also a person, but from the previous contact with Li Li, Lin Zhengrong can easily judge that compared with Li Datong, Li Li has a higher evaluation of Wang Guodong.

Removing the evaluation of chestnuts, this can also be seen from the other party's resume.

He was not only the gold medal winner of the Yanfu Bixiu that year, but also became Li Hongyi's disciple when he was studying in Yanfu.

It's rare for an associate dean to become a mentor to an undergraduate student these days.

As a result, when Wang Guodong was studying in Yanfu, he directly worshiped Li Hongyi's door.

It is conceivable that the other party is powerful.

Although Li Hongyi, the vice president, does not have the same huge influence as Zhang Yaojie in the China Fashion Designers Association, before becoming the vice president, Li Hongyi himself was a returnee.

In terms of fashion design, it still has a lot of popularity.

It's just that in recent years, I have entered colleges and universities to engage in administration, and the number of appearances will decrease.

But Lin Zhengrong did not underestimate Li Hongyi's influence at all.

If this were not the case, Lee Ming-che was revealed to have used a gunman to complete the finished work, how could it be so lightly exposed.

However, according to the gossip that Lin Zhengrong got, the previous uproar still had an impact on Li Hongyi to a greater or lesser extent.

Originally, there were rumors in the Fashion Institute that Li Hongyi would be a popular candidate for the next courtyard.

As a result, Zhang Yaojie is now re-elected.

It can be said that because of Li Mingzhe, the son of a cheating father, Li Hongyi, who was about to get his dean's position, flew away.

Of course, this is all grapevine.

Not to be sure.

Anyway, having said so much, it proves that Wang Guodong's strength is not weak.

Also in the final scene of the Hanbo Award, there was a very eye-catching performance.

If it weren't for the gunman incident some time ago, when Wang Guodong brought a model wearing his own work to the stage to thank him, the applause from the audience would definitely be even more enthusiastic.

After all, there are a lot of Yanfu teachers and students, as well as alumni in the audience.

Wang Guodong is also their junior in a sense.

As a result, Wang Guodong's identity is somewhat embarrassing now.

Of course, this embarrassment is also relative.

There are also people who support Wang Guodong, and there are also many people who don't believe that he will really help an undergraduate student to become a gunman.

But no matter what, those who knew about Yanfu's big show looked at Lin Zhengrong and Wang Guodong who returned thoughtfully.

Because in one way, they're rivals again.

So after Wang Guodong's works were staged, the Yanfu alumni who knew what happened to the Yanfu Bishu show some time ago had a somewhat emotional face.

There is nothing wrong with Wang Guodong's focus on the design of the dragon totem, but Lee Mingzhe also used the dragon totem before, so it is a bit too much to say.

It's just that everyone didn't expect that this time, Wang Guodong's work is still a dragon totem.

In a way, what is the difference between "Dragon Totem" and "Descendants of the Dragon"?

So after watching Wang Guodong's works, everyone took the stage in the works of Lin Zhengrong.

Lin Zhengrong's works, in fact, have nothing to look forward to.

His works have already been unveiled at Swallow Fashion Week, and even if some minor changes have been made this time, it will not be too much.

The only thing that has changed is that this time, his "Bamboo Rhyme" series has added a men's clothing.

And the model is himself.

This is strongly requested by Li Li and Qin Tingcheng, these women all feel that Lin Zhengrong, as a model who has participated in Dior's haute couture show, if he doesn't even participate in his own work show, it will be too much to say.

So in the few days he was preparing, he added a men's clothing piece, which was also integrated with bamboo in the style of ink painting.

The fabric, however, is no longer the previous gold silk, but an ordinary silk fabric with black and white eyes, and even refers to the Tai Chi men's style designed by Chestnut before.

But no matter what, Lin Zhengrong, who appeared on stage with a group of girls, suddenly became the most eye-catching presence in the show.

Not one of them!