Reviewing the jade carving works from ancient times to the present, you will find that there are always two major schools in the technique of jade carving works, one is to highlight the jade carving technique, and the other is to pay attention to the natural color. As far as the former jade carving works are concerned, the art works that are so beautiful and beautiful are undoubtedly regarded as handed down works for the generations to admire.
When people are amazed, you will find that people praise, worship, and praise the jade carving skills, and ignore the beauty of jade itself, or that jade has become the carrier of jade carving techniques, which has a primary and secondary problem. In the end, is it to show the beauty of jade itself, or to highlight the beauty of carving techniques? Is it to show the world's most beautiful Hetian jade to the world, or let the jade carving master use Hetian jade as the carrier of the carving technique?
Is Hetian jade a jade or a carving?
This is an open question and a fundamental issue in the creative concept.
I think that Hetian jade should focus on the appreciation of jade and the appreciation of the sculpture. Under the premise of highlighting the beauty of jade, the beauty of jade and the beauty of carvings complement each other and complement each other. This is due to the natural skin feel and oily feel of Hetian jade. The body is like gelatin, warm and oily, and the texture is tough. Hetian jade is different from other jade.
"Clear water out of hibiscus, natural to engrave", this is the biggest difference between Hetian jade and colored jade in jade carving techniques. Hetian jade is rewarding jade, and carving is only a icing on the cake. The art of carving is used to show the beauty of Hetian jade, instead of using Hetian jade to express the so-called perfect engraving.
I believe that complex and patchwork cutters are not suitable for use on Hetian jade body, and are more suitable for use in colored jade or other materials. If you use too much complicated knife or deliberately highlight the image, you can't better express the beauty of Hetian jade body, or even counterproductive, which is detrimental to the natural beauty of Hetian jade. Because Hetian jade is a monochromatic body, the knife cutter's sense of staggering is usually not vividly reflected on the surface of the jade body. If you deliberately micro-carving on Hetian jade body, it will not only harm the body of Hetian jade, but also show the exquisite micro-carving process, resulting in the consequences of neither carving nor jade. The skill of carving is to be like a god, not to strengthen the shape. The work does not have to be vivid, but it must be said that it is not like "not intended", too much like "art".
In fact, our ancestors in the jade carving skills have always followed the principle of "less expensive, more expensive, simple as beauty, quality as beautiful", emphasizing "innocent and not doing flowers." That is to say, only in the defective place, the carving is used to cover up or eliminate the jade. There is now a saying called "good jade is not awkward". This sentence is not completely correct. The correct understanding should be: grasp the scale of carving. The perfect place for jade, don't over-sculpt, you can't sacrifice the beauty of jade itself to show the so-called perfect engraving. If so, it is the end of the cart.
Heaven and earth do not say, nature is the most beautiful.
No master of art can recreate the beauty of nature, and the skill of the world is small in the face of nature. The Chinese nation appreciates the beauty of Hetian jade and adds a magnificent sum to the Chinese civilization. Therefore, our artists must not abuse their superb technical means and try to cover up the beauty of Hetian jade. In front of the beauty of nature, in front of Hetian Meiyu, we are primary school students, and Hetian jade is a master. Our art can only set off and perfect the beauty of Hetian jade. There can be no other attempts. Otherwise, you can only fail.
After a jade carving is completed, it is often necessary to "polish" it. This is also a slightly modified "beauty"! After many works have been "polished", they look smooth and bright, and have a "glassy" feeling. In fact, this "polishing" often destroys the soft and moist texture of Hetian jade, making Hetian jade's natural beauty inferior! "Polishing" should be carried out in accordance with the principle of "does not damage the natural skin color of jade", and it is necessary to highlight the natural luster of Hetian jade itself without modification. Just like a young girl, cosmetics cover up the beautiful skin, what beauty is it?
There is no gold in the red, and there is no jade in the jade. There is no defect in Hetian jade in the world. The high-quality jade carvings through the art design and the processing without traces, turned into beauty, wonderful pens and flowers, in the beautiful places to show the beauty, so that Hetian jade's beauty performance is more expressive and more comprehensive. The carvings show aura, and the carvings show the charm. With the unique charm of Hetian jade carving art, Hetian jade "wakes up" and rejuvenates the youthful vitality of flesh and blood.
The various skin colors of Hetian jade are formed by the chemical reaction of tens of thousands of years of geological movement. Jade is the body, the skin is the clothing, and there is clothing after the body. The skin can be used as a symbol to identify whether Hetian jade is a seed material or a mountain material. It is also an ornament for beautifying Hetian jade.
In the jade market, there is a concept that the jade with skin is a good jade. Some consumers pay great attention to the outer skin when buying jade, and buy it with skin. Is this appropriate? First of all, we should recognize what is the skin of Hetian jade?
From the perspective of mineralogy, whether it is the color or original skin of jade, it is only the protective layer of Hetian jade, and the skin color is the external feature of Hetian jade. There are several general statements about jade:
1. 璞: The ancients called the jade stone or the jade that was not carved.璞 also has the meaning of skin. The Ming Dynasty scientist Song Yingxing’s "Heavenly Creations" records: "Where the jade is hidden in the jade, its outer skin is jade."
2. æ² or dip: Some experts and scholars refer to the different oxidized colors formed by jade immersion for a long time as “æ²â€ or “dipâ€. Some people also refer to the secondary oxidation color of seed materials as ochre.
3. Oxidation: This is the name of mineralogist. Because Hetian jade is soaked in the riverbed for a long time, the ferrous oxide in jade is converted into ferric oxide under oxidizing conditions.
Most of the jade skins are various skin colors formed on the outside of the seed material by the ferrous oxide in Hetian jade after long-term immersion. This skin color has a variety of shapes and can be said to have no one. Some are like clouds, some are like arcs, some are scattered like dots, big or small, or round or square, or long or short, or irregular; their colors are also colorful, such as autumn pear skin, Jujube red skin, tiger skin, sunflower skin, sprinkled gold skin, crow skin, deer skin, osmanthus skin, aloe skin...
Hetian jade has two kinds of skin color and jade skin. The color skin is different because of the geological structure, formation conditions and age of the jade. The thickness is also slightly different, but it is generally about 1 mm. The jade skin is the surrounding rock wrapped by Hetian jade.
At the moment, the Hetian jade market seems to be an epidemic, and the love skin is overweight, even a skin cover. As long as the price of the skin is much higher, jade, oiliness, toughness, density, hardness and gloss are not taken for granted. So love the skin, it is bound to do the stupid thing of "buy a beggar." This also gave birth to the phenomenon of fake skin, which made it difficult to distinguish between authenticity and falsehood. Many jade carving masters all said with pain and sorrow: "Because most collectors can't distinguish the origin of various jade materials and the corresponding grades, they have to rely on the skin color to identify whether it is a seed material, and finally fall into the indulgence of skin color and neglect. The jade material itself is a collection of blind spots. The preference of jade carving collectors also directly affects the market sales trend. Since most fans only recognize skin color and whiteness, many people are eager for small profits and think that more flowers Hundreds of thousands of dollars (the price of four or five years ago) can be purchased from so-called high-grade "red skin", "yellow skin" and other seed materials, which promoted the proliferation of fake skin.
The skin color of Hetian jade is mostly in the density of jade, the hardness is not enough, especially in the place where there is cracking, by oxidative coloring, the real good jade is "eat" and does not go into color.
Those who truly understand Hetian jade will only regard the skin color of jade as the beauty of the clothes, the butterfly of love flowers. Peeling the skin color of Hetian jade, the inner is the jade. Jade is the body, the skin is the clothing, the first is the body after the clothing, the skin is the ornament of the landscaping and the jade, the skin can be used as a marker to identify whether Hetian jade is a seed or a mountain material. Therefore, the beauty of Hetian jade is mainly in its own "body", not the skin.
Body such as gelatin is a distinguishing feature of Hetian jade from other jade species. Thousand kinds of agate 10,000 kinds of jade, only Hetian jade and other jade species are fundamentally different, other jade or colorful, or crystal clear, are color is beautiful, color is expensive, and Hetian jade is not rich in color, Its oily texture, softness and skin feel are not found in any jade. Therefore, Hetian jade uses fat as beauty and quality as beauty. Other jade species are mainly for color appreciation, and Hetian jade is mainly for quality. Other jade species are in the form, and Hetian Yumei is inside. Other jade species are heavily watched, and Hetian jade is in the taste. When you "taste" with your heart, it is no longer a stone, but a life with bones, flesh and veins.
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