"Lusa, David, you two should first tell Wang Ding the basic knowledge of sculpture, such as the tools we use, how we make sculptures, and the preparatory work in the early stage of sculpture, you shouldn't know this Wang Ding very well, right?"

Albeni wanted to ask Wang Ding to learn from scratch, and Wang Ding certainly cherished this opportunity. "I'm a little unclear, so thank you so much."

Da Wei snorted secretly, he thought that this Wang Ding was so powerful, but he didn't expect that he was a layman who didn't know anything. Naturally, Dawei didn't want to hand over Wang Ding sincerely, so he said coldly, "Okay, the teacher will teach, and I will tell him." ”

Lusa said enthusiastically, "Wang Ding, don't worry, we will tell you some basic knowledge of sculpture, in fact, if you get started with sculpture, it will not be as complicated as you imagined." ”

"Then let's start now, I see you were making sculptures just now, what are the basic tools for this sculpture?"

Wang Ding asked curiously, and David said quickly in French first. But where can Wang Ding understand French, seeing that Wang Ding blushed embarrassedly after listening, Albeni simply said, "Okay, David, you can't understand Wang Ding in French, it's better to teach Wang Ding by yourself Lusa." David, go and prepare some clay sculptures for me. ”

Dawei was arranged to do something else, and there were only two people left, Wang Ding and Lusa.

The teacher left to do something else, but Lusa wasn't lazy. Nodding politely to Wang Ding, Lusa put her two little hands on her thighs and said seriously, "Wang Ding, the tools of the sculpture are like what Dawei just said in French, and there are many of them." For example, there are three types of sculpture knives: the first is metal tools. It is made of steel, stainless steel, brass, etc. The head of the knife is divided into oblique triangle, willow leaf, leaf and arrow, and some edges are jagged. The second is non-metallic tools, which are made of bamboo, wood, bone, ivory, horn, plastic and other materials. Large knives are shaped like soles, cuttlefishbones, thumbs, oblique triangles, etc., and small knives are shaped like water chestnuts, small feet, sphericals, bars, etc. The third is the scraper, which can cut the shape and make the clothing pattern, and there are various arc-shaped and square double-sided scrapers. Sculpture knives are generally used for clay sculpture work, scraping, cutting, pasting, picking, pressing, plastering clay sculptures and modeling. And then there are stone carving chisels, stone carving hammers, etc., right. Bow handles and point shapers are also often used in sculpture. ”

Wang Ding knew how to chisel and hammer stone carving, but he didn't know much about the bow handle and this point model.

"Miss Lusa, I would like to ask, what is the bow handle and the point modeler, and what is his role in the sculpture?"

Lusa really felt that Wang Ding was very blank about the sculpture, but he smiled kindly, "This bow handle is a plastic caliper, and there are two ivory-shaped feet that can be opened and closed, which can measure distances. It is also possible to change the curvature of the leg at any time. And, of course, there is the proportional bow, which is a measuring tool for sculptural magnification. And what about the point modeler. It is a three-coordinate locator, which is used to copy stone carvings and wood carvings. We usually find 3 datum points on the plaster statue, use the positioning steel on the dot meter to align and fix, use the sliding parts and universal joints and pointers on the dot gauge to align any space position on the statue, lock the movable parts, and then move the dot gauge to the stone or wood, the steel is aimed at the corresponding datum point, the pointer can mark the points on the plaster statue on the stone or wood block, and it can be accurately copied into stone carvings and wood carvings. ”

"Oh, and the tool?"

Wang Ding probably understood that Mr. Albeni could reproduce many of Master Rodin's works, and this point model should be indispensable.

Seeing that Wang Ding was very interested in the point model, Lusa took a point model instrument and asked Wang Ding to experience it personally, in this studio, there are a lot of clay sculptures, Lusa first found a template for the sculpture, and then used the point meter to take three base points on the top, and then moved the instrument to the clay sculpture again after fixing, and the position of the three base points was marked on the clay sculpture.

"You see, with this point shaper, we are more prepared to reproduce a sculpture of art, and the error is minimized."

"I know, Lusa is very grateful to you, but I still have a question, that is, whether this clay sculpture is the original material of your sculpture, I see that there are many such clay sculptures in this studio, and there are some iron shelves over there..."

Wang Ding was very observant, and before he could finish what he had to say, Lusa interrupted him and said, "Wang Ding, Teacher Albeni said that you are talented, and it seems that you are indeed right." Your ability to discover is amazing, and indeed the clay sculptures you see are the most commonly used materials for our sculptures, in addition to clay sculptures, stone, jade, wood, ivory, etc. are all materials available for our sculptures. And the role of those iron shelves played a crucial role in the early stage of sculpture, and we first made shelves when making sculptures..."

"Make a shelf?" Wang Ding was puzzled.

"Heh, are you a little vague, then I will say more clearly, to make a sculpture, we first need to make a shelf according to the posture of the statue and the proportion of the shape, and this shelf fixes the shape of its internal skeleton; A number of small crosses are tied around the skeleton, and its function is to connect the mud into a whole, so that it will not collapse and be easy to shape. After the shelves are ready, we can enlarge and shape them according to the pre-made mud composition. ”

"That's how the sculpture was made? I said, how can these clay sculptures be connected together, it turns out that there is a shelf to support it? ”

Wang Ding has really gained knowledge, but his current understanding is far less than one-tenth of that of sculpture. Lusa smiled slightly, and a small dimple was embedded in her handsome face.

"Wang Ding, where can the sculpture be made, making an iron frame is only the first step to complete the sculpture, after the clay sculpture is shaped, because it is too easy to be affected by the climate, easy to crack and deformed, and difficult to preserve permanently, we have to turn the clay sculpture into a plaster statue. Most of the sculptures we often come into contact with are made of gypsum, and we also have our own set of complex techniques for turning gypsum, and after the plaster is made, we often continue to spray various colors to make it produce the texture of bronze, wood, stone, etc. At this point, the sculpture can be said to be complete. ”

Lusa briefly told Wang Ding about the production method of sculpture, and Wang Ding understood the whole method, but found a problem, that is, the sculpture art of the West is actually different from the East.

Because Wang Ding talked to Brother Jin Long about sculpture carving, in Jin Long's narration, Wang Ding remembered that Chinese sculpture materials are wood, mud, cotton, broken hemp, sand, straw, etc., which is more complex than Western sculptures.

However, Wang Ding can also understand that China's sculpture is actually in the history of development, not as good as Western sculpture, in China, the word sculptor basically did not exist in ancient times, that era China was more of a carpenter, and the status of carpenters in the society is in the middle and lower classes, not only that, but also very little money, simply can not be compared with Western sculptors, so in the skills and development of sculpture, China is far less developed than the West.

To this day, in China, the sculptor is still a member of the traditional division of labor, whose main responsibility is to build statues for temples and carve stones for buildings. On the one hand, they do not have the freedom to create independently, and on the other hand, in terms of the objects of expression and the space in which their works are located, their works lack the ability to intervene in social reality, which is backward. In the West, sculptures created freely in the studio can express their observations of society through their works, and their works are no weaker than those of their contemporaries. Western sculptures that receive orders from all parties and profit from them can enter the public spaces of various modern societies, such as squares, streets, and parks, and their works will naturally attract public attention. And obtained the affirmation of identity and status, and got money, so the sculptors are even more successive.

Wang Ding felt that he had a sense of responsibility to apply the essence of Western sculpture to Eastern sculpture, and to prove that there were also sculptors in China who could influence the world.

……

"Wang Ding, how are you learning the basic knowledge?"

Wang Ding is still absorbing the knowledge of sculpture just now, and Mr. Albeni has asked questions with concern, because time is pressing, Albeni wants to ask Wang Ding to accept the basic knowledge of sculpture in the shortest possible time, and then enter the next link to carry out on-the-spot sculpture practice.

Because in Albeni's concept, theory without practice is always blank and weak, and only those who really create perfect sculptures with their hands are sculptors in the true sense.

Although Wang Ding still has doubts about sculpture, he thinks that he can continue to learn from Albeni's teacher's carving, he said. "Mr. Albeni, I basically understand the principles of sculpture, but I don't know much about the deeper content. But teacher, we can start carving first. ”

"Okay, then let's hurry up and perfect this goddess of victory."

Lusa was stunned when she said that the teacher was going to make the goddess of victory, and David was even more shocked by Albeni's actions. How did the teacher want to make the goddess of victory, this Louvre's artwork is already very perfect, its irreproducible beauty and then carve, it seems meaningless.

And perfect, how to perfect it?

But Wang Ding replied quickly, "Teacher Albeni, I think we need to make a shelf for the head of the goddess of victory first, and then pinch out her clay sculpture." ”

Wang Ding's words were not particularly professional, but Albeni was still very happy to listen to Wang Ding's words, because this is a kind of growth after all.

"Wang Ding, the clay sculpture of the head can be used without a shelf, but I am sure that we need to make a lot of heads, I hope to have a more satisfactory head made this afternoon, come on!" (To be continued......)