What do you think of when you create a piece of wood?Maybe a bracelet, a wood carving, a chair?What would be the effect if you used wood to create a painting?
The author recently visited and found that in Guanzhu Town, Dianbai District, a characteristic town of agarwood, two young people used the local widely planted Qinan agarwood to "make" paintings, creating a wooden puzzle that exudes a fragrant atmosphere, allowing viewers to experience the beauty of art.
Agarwood collage is created based on the structure, shape, line, texture, and color of the wood itself, supplemented by artisan creativity and skillful splicing, and combined into different shapes and patterns. The effect is between two-dimensional and three-dimensional, which is a painting from a distance, and quite three-dimensional when viewed up close, and the visual effect is very good.
Wood collage has given agarwood derivative products a refreshing way to present, and gradually broke the circle and became popular. At the same time, it has improved the interest of many people in understanding agarwood and agarwood culture with the help of art carriers, and also boosted the expansion and extension of the agarwood industry chain and promoted the further integration and development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries.
Big ingenuity doesn't work
Emphasis on resemblance rather than resemblance to form.
A small workbench with pen and ink on it. He Songli, a young man who watched the pearls, was concentrating on adding "Taoism and Nature" to a piece of rice paper with a brush. Later, he picked up a piece of round agarwood with both hands and placed it on top of the paper to find the best place to place it. After finding the place of the agarwood, you only need to complete the pasting and fixing, and this agarwood collage with the meaning of "hidden" is largely completed.
In He Songli's studio, there are many paintings with artistic beauty, and interestingly, they are all created with agarwood. These paintings, according to different structures and shapes, with calligraphy characters to present different charms, if the viewer ponders carefully, can find a unique story expression.
Most of He Songli's agarwood puzzles do not pay attention to the similarity, but are more of an artistic conception. For him, his task is to excavate and celebrate the qualities of each piece of wood, to give it a soul and to let it tell its own story.
Agarwood is selected from the local area, and the design is often conceived according to the shape and texture of the agarwood itself, and then the agarwood parts are cut, trimmed and spliced after the theme is determined. He Songli rarely changes the shape of agarwood significantly, but makes a fuss based on the original shape, texture and even defects of agarwood, so that the structural lines of agarwood itself play just the right role, showing the unique spirituality of each piece of wood.
This kind of thinking can be felt in the work "Tianxiang Chumei". This is a work with the theme of Zen. On the picture, the Buddha characters written with a brush form the image of monks worshiping the Bodhisattva, the mountain peaks made of agarwood stand majestically, and a small gap appears in the middle of the mountain, and a Buddha head is painted inside. "What can you see in the painting?"Viewers often come up with different answers to such questions.
He Songli's agarwood collage, in addition to self-selection of materials, also has a lot of orders for custom-made materials. Because the raw materials used are often high-quality Qinan agarwood, coupled with the addition of creativity and handiwork, the price of agarwood puzzles can range from thousands to tens of thousands of yuan.
A piece of agarwood or several pieces of agarwood flakes, trimmed and spliced, form a mountain peak and a big tree. The whimsical patterns, mixed with the grain and fragrance of wood, give the paintings a more artistic touch. Since He Songli painted for more than a year, this form of expression has gradually broken the circle and has been recognized by more and more people.
Design refactoring
Give agarwood a new artistic life.
Compared with He Songli's skillful pursuit of god-likeness, Wang Huanhui, another young man who views pearls, uses agarwood to "make" paintings, which is more like a kind of reconstruction.
In Wang Huanhui's studio, small pieces of agarwood wood that have been cut are placed in the box of moon cakes. Tweezers are his main tool for painting, and as he uses tweezers to paste pieces of wood onto his canvas, two lifelike birds are gradually taking shape under his hands.
On the walls of the studio are more than 20 large and small agarwood puzzles. From a distance, these paintings seem to be sketches, but when you look closer, there is an obvious "three-dimensional feeling", the original picture is composed of small pieces of wood spliced together, because of the color difference between the pieces of wood to form the color of the pattern, and finally present the effect of "painting".
Wang Huanhui's wooden puzzles are mainly based on trees, flowers and animals. He said, "The characteristics of agarwood make it more accurate and vivid when it presents the shape of branches, hair, etc. ”
The two paintings "Eagle Spreads Wings" and "Tiger and Tiger" are quite eye-catching. The eagle's eyes are like torches, its outstretched wings and talons flutter in the air, and the image of an eagle soaring above the sky soars in the sky. The two sides of the picture are set against the backdrop of towering mountain peaks, making the composition more complete and full of grandeur. A tiger lies on a rock, with a thick body and a strong texture. Wood chips of different lengths make up the hair of the tiger's body, and the texture is real. The huge mouth of the mouth was imposing, and the roar seemed to be in the ears.
Another painting on Van Gogh's Starry Night is equally impressive. The different shades of wood in the painting vividly convey the flow of the night and the starry sky. Smooth lines, huge swirls, like beating notes, cheerful and lively.
Wood collage needs to go through multiple processes such as design, drawing, material selection, cutting, trimming, gluing, splicing, etc., and the production process is cumbersome and laborious. With the exception of a few simple paintings, Wang Huanhui's time to create a painting generally ranges from a few days to a dozen days. Depending on the size of the painting, the time taken to create can also vary, for example, paintings like "The Eagle Spreads Its Wings" and "The Tiger Grows Might" may take longer.
Wang Huanhui learned classical realism from his teacher in high school and has a certain foundation in art. After the National Day last year, he returned to his hometown from Guangzhou to develop, and after thinking about it, he tried to use agarwood to create collages. He bought agarwood, cut it into small pieces of wood, glued it to the canvas, and used the color difference on the wood chips to finally "paint" his own work, which also gave himself new possibilities.
Southern + reporter Deng Jianqing.
Author] Deng Jianqing.
*] Southern Press Media Group Nanfang + client.