"Bang bang bang", someone knocked on the door, and when Lan Yu opened the door, he saw that it was Jiang Xiuxiu, a high school classmate.

Xiuxiu raised her hand, "Eucalyptus, guess what good things I brought you?" ”

Lan Eucalyptus shook her head, indicating that she couldn't guess.

Jiang Xiuxiu said, "It's cork painting, and I'm learning the craft of cork painting with my cousin now." ”

Cork painting, also known as cork carving, wood painting. Traditional Chinese folk carving handicrafts. It is mainly produced in Fuzhou. It is a handicraft that combines "carving" and "painting".

The cork painting is simple in tone, fine in carving, realistic in image, good at reproducing ancient Chinese pavilions, pavilions, garden scenery, so that people are immersed in the scene after viewing.

Cork painting often uses relief, round carving, openwork and other techniques, finely carved into flowers, trees, pavilions, trestle boats and figures, and then uses grass to make white cranes, peacocks, deer and other birds and beasts, according to the picture design, glued to the backing paper, prepared into three-dimensional, semi-three-dimensional wood paintings, installed in the glass frame, it becomes a unique work of art.

Jiang Xiuxiu's cousin, Jiangsu Su, was out of control after her first contact with cork painting six years ago, and after learning the traditional cork painting works of the older generation of craftsmen, she gradually explored a new type of cork painting that can combine contemporary fast food culture and aesthetic values.

An obsession with inheriting cork painting is rooted in her heart. Now, she has begun to devote herself to condensing traditional large and medium-sized cork paintings into small glass bottles, which not only does not destroy the essence of cork painting and the principle of painting, but also solves the problem of those friends who come to Fuzhou for sightseeing, but it is not easy to carry and expensive.

Cork painting came out at the beginning of this century and originated in Xiyuan Village, an eastern suburb of Fuzhou. Legend has it that in 1913, after the Xinhai Revolution, someone brought back a work similar to a "wood painting" from Germany.

Local folk carving artists Chen Chunrun, Wu Qiqi, Zheng Lixi, etc. were deeply inspired, so when they were studying at the Fujian Craft Institute, they used the cork layer of cork oak imported from Spain, Portugal and Arabia as the main raw material, and cut the light, loose, elastic and fine-grained cork into thin slices, using various traditional Chinese carving techniques, using knives instead of pens, and hand-carved and skillfully carved to make a complex picture with a slender texture, and using the limited space in the frame to make the image of the scene three-dimensional. Various pavilions and pavilions with distinctive ethnic styles are arranged.

Eucalyptus held the cork painting in her hand and looked closely, and found that the tone was elegant and simple, the image was realistic, the picture was like the brushwork of the Song Dynasty, the artistic conception was profound, far away from the ancient, Qingqi was lovely, and it had the artistic effect of "hundreds of miles of mountains, all in one frame".

Eucalyptus blue has heard before, there are many varieties of cork paintings, there are majestic and magnificent screens, hanging screens, large ornaments, small ornaments and products combined with practicality, tourist souvenirs, etc., up to two or three hundred specifications, four or five hundred varieties of colors, works are sold all over the country and more than 30 countries and regions such as Europe, America, Japan, Southeast Asia, etc. And this time, Jiang Xiuxiu brought small ornaments.

Fuzhou cork painting was produced in 1914 and was pioneered by Fuzhou folk artist Wu Qiqi. Skillful craftsmen use the characteristics of cork to be light and soft, fine in texture and soft in tone, use traditional folk carving techniques, and use knives to carefully carve cork into Chinese painting-style pavilions, flowers and trees and other parts, and then according to the needs of creation, these parts are organically combined into a complete landscape, and the exquisite carving skills of Chinese folk are cleverly combined with the beautiful and far-reaching artistic conception of Chinese painting, and cork painting is named after it. Cork painting was once brilliant.

After Wu Qiqi created cork paintings, he returned to his hometown of Xiyuan Village in Fuzhou to open a handicraft workshop, and the people of Xiyuan Village competed to learn the art, and cork painting became one of the economic sources of the people of Xiyuan Village. Before the liberation, Fuzhou cork paintings had been sold overseas and had been exhibited at the World Exposition.

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