Not long ago, Boss Zhou, who sold a chicken cup to Liu Yi in Tianyuan Province, received a request for help from his relatives, and wanted to spend 10,000 yuan to buy a national master work in Jingdezhen to give away, so Boss Zhou looked for someone to contact all over the world, and learned that at this price, he could only buy some teacups, pen holders or smaller works of national masters, and some of the professor's small and medium-sized porcelain plate paintings or porcelain bottles. The works of other professors and provincial masters are not allowed.

Not only the buyer himself, but also some ceramic agents, most of them only agree with the master, and are not very optimistic about the professor's works, according to Li Gaoyuan, he has been commissioned by other collectors many times, trying to find two pieces of Jingdezhen porcelain, all of which are the works of the masters, not the works of the professor.

Some in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong and other places held ceramic art exhibitions, among the invited objects, there are masters, senior arts and crafts artists, and even young and middle-aged ceramic art lovers, but few professors.

This phenomenon is not only manifested in the market, in real life, there are also many people who think that professors are not as popular as masters, some professors participate in some activities, many people in order to show respect for him, are commensurate with masters, and hide professors, some people in the introduction of a professor with a graduate student, also said that a master with a graduate student.

Professor seems to be a derogatory term in this era, and it is rarely favored.

The master is becoming more and more favorable, and the professor seems to be slowly forgotten, which causes the professor to be very dissatisfied, not only in words but also in deeds.

The initial controversy was said to have been made a few years ago when the relevant authorities had a who's who in ceramics with national and provincial masters of arts and crafts. There are ceramic art celebrities and ceramic families named by the municipal government, and there are senior arts and crafts artists of provincial, municipal and even municipal non-public enterprises, but there are no professors.

When a city leader participated in an event in the Tao Academy, a well-known professor reflected on the confusion of this list, and after that, the list was supplemented.

There is a story in the circle: just before the list was added, a ceramic agent called a well-known professor and said that in the announcement of the name of the exhibition, his name was ranked behind the provincial masters, and the words revealed that he had enough respect for him. This call made the professor very indignant: "I am the judge of the first and second Chinese arts and crafts masters, and the national masters are all selected by me. ”

As a result, a new problem of sorting has emerged in the addition of the directory, which complicates this simple matter. The relevant departments also convened a number of departments such as personnel to discuss for this purpose, and finally decided to rank the professional and technical titles first. Honorary titles are ranked at the bottom.

The ranking of the directory has not caused any change in the market. The sales and price of the master's works are still more optimistic than those of the professor. As a result, the relationship between the market situation of works and the artistic content has become a new focus of debate.

Most professors disdain the artistic level of masters, and some people point out that the selection of professors must have a bachelor's degree or above, and a certain number of professional papers have been published, which determines that professors have a certain professional level and theoretical knowledge. Therefore, the professor's works are more artistic, more creative and innovative. Most of the masters of arts and crafts, especially those who were evaluated in the early days, have not received a systematic and comprehensive theoretical education, and are all family or teacher traditions.

The original intention of the selection of masters is to introduce a group of excellent people from various crafts. It is not required to have a deep theoretical level, and the professor's own requirements must be knowledgeable and professionally solid. Because Jingdezhen is blessed with unique conditions, there are many professors who are stronger than masters in not only theoretical knowledge, but also in practice, which is normal.

Masters are different from professors, the former has obvious marketability and can be speculated, while the latter must not be false at all, and the phenomenon of hot market and high prices of works is not the measure of its art.

I don't know whether the professor's works are high and low due to the high artistic content, and I don't know whether the education-oriented professors are not good at finding market entry points in the creation of works, or other reasons, in short, the masters are more optimistic than the professors in the market, so there is a phenomenon of professors participating in the evaluation of masters, in this regard, some professors think it is self-deprecation.

The relevant departments once pointed out that the professor itself is the highest professional title recognized by the state, and there is no need to participate in this kind of social evaluation for factories and research institutes, so there were no professors among the participants at that time, "all of them are craftsmen".

Later, a professor participated in the selection of the title of master in the national sector, and the leader of the selection was also a professor, and he pointed out that the professor should not participate in the selection, he was already a professor, and he should give the opportunity to others, but there was no response.

In several selections, professors have fallen behind, and even only a few percent of the total master's title, and even eliminated because of the opposition of the review team leader, which makes the professors very indignant, and they think that the comments are unfair.

The participating professors are all strong in art and have a great influence in the industry, if one loses, it can be said that it is normal, but now three are unsuccessful, how can people not have doubts about this kind of selection?

At the same time as various controversies, there are professors who put forward that the conditions for selecting professors are relatively high, and the number of appointments is less, so far there are about 20 professors of ceramic art including retirement, and the evaluation of masters is not only wide, but also there are some unhealthy trends, and now the evaluation is also very widespread.

This controversy was refuted by the master and some outsiders, saying that there are also unhealthy practices such as plagiarism and relationship pulling in the selection of professors.

Why do professors participate in the evaluation of national or even provincial arts and crafts masters? A professor, who did not want to be named, said that he had also strongly opposed professors evaluating masters in the past, but because the phenomenon of advocating masters and despising professors in the market was too obvious, he had to accept this fact and "make a master life easier."

There are many debates, but there is only one fuse: the market admires the master and ignores the professor.

Under the same conditions, the market quality of a work or product depends on the length of publicity time and the size of the intensity, in recent years, some media and government departments have only paid attention to the publicity of the master, and never publicized the professor, which is the main reason why the master is more popular than the professor.

The art market is very strange, those works that emphasize art, creativity and innovation are not very adaptable, it needs more traditional, even vulgar things, the two artistic styles of the professor and the master determine the master's popularity over the professor.

More people think that this kind of favoritism is because the master is preceded by the word "China", "Provincial masters are not popular." There are also people who believe that there are very few national masters, but there are many professors (this statement, there is a misunderstanding that because of the short history of Chinese ceramic art masters, they think that national masters only refer to Chinese arts and crafts masters, and at the same time, they have not divided professors into majors, especially ceramic art majors. ）。

This kind of appearance in the market has led to a lot of professors and masters disagreeing, and this is not a day or two, and this dispute between professors and masters is caused by the expansion of contradictions, and if the state does not have relevant policies, this kind of controversy will continue for a long, long time. (To be continued......)