The first anniversary of the death of Master Wang Xiliang, a master of Chinese ceramics, is about to be one year old, in this day of infinite remembrance, we once again gaze at the ordinary, simple and brilliant life of Master Wang Xiliang, trace his 90-year porcelain art life, examine the classics he left us a piece of hand-me-down, to appreciate and feel the ceramic aesthetic ideas and porcelain painting style of a generation of masters who have influenced Chinese ceramics for a hundred years.
Ninety years of porcelain art
road of porcelain
Master Wang Xiliang was born in 1922, lived in old China for 27 years, because of his poor family, four years after private school, in 1933, at the age of 12, he followed his uncle Zhushan Bayou Wang Dafan to learn porcelain art to start his 90-year ceramic art road. In 1935, at the age of 15, Wang Xiliang independently created the first porcelain painting work "Xi Shi Bang Sha" pen holder, from 1933 to 1949 these 16 years, Wang Xiliang teacher porcelain art road has passed through the apprenticeship period, the independent period, for the development of porcelain painting art laid a solid foundation for the development of porcelain painting art in the future.
After the liberation in 1949, Wang Xiliang entered the Art Ceramics Craft Society, which was the predecessor of the Ceramic Research Institute of the Ministry of Light Industry; In 1954, Wang Xiliang was influenced by Mei Jianying, Gao Zhuang and Zhu Danian, professors of the Academy of Arts and Crafts, which broadened Wang Xiliang's horizons, and greatly improved his artistic and theoretical level, he created "Tea Picking Butterflies" in 13 Eastern European countries, in 1955, the Ministry of Light Industry Ceramics Research Institute was established, Wang Xiliang entered the Ministry of Light Industry Ceramics Research Institute, in 1959, ** instructed to decorate the newly completed Great Hall of the People, Wang Xiliang created the famous pastel porcelain plate painting "Jinggang Mountain, the Cradle of the Revolution" was selected. Since then, it has laid its Chinese porcelain altar; In 1975, he participated in the creation of Jingdezhen porcelain 7501, as the chief craft creation master, in 1979, the Ministry of Light Industry to the country 34 in the field of arts and crafts, outstanding skills, outstanding achievements of the artist, the first awarded the title of "master of arts and crafts", Wang Xiliang for the first batch of the first Jingdezhen Chinese arts and crafts masters; In 1987, he was rated as a senior arts and crafts artist, and in 1992, he enjoyed the "special allowance" issued by the company, and served as a member of the Chinese Artists Association and the president of the Jingdezhen Painting and Calligraphy Institute. He has successively served as the chairman of the Jingdezhen Artists Association, the fourth and fifth members of the Jingdezhen CPPCC, and the sixth standing committee member. Honorary Director of China Ceramic Art Museum and Honorary Director of Changnan Painting and Calligraphy Institute. In 2005, Wang Xiliang won the "China Arts and Crafts Lifetime Achievement Award" issued by the China Arts and Crafts Society. Especially after his artistic transformation in his later years, in the following 10 years of his career, he has created many classics one after another. Top 10 mastery classics
top 10 classics
Wang Xiliang's pastel porcelain painting art can be said to represent the characteristics of pastel art in this era, and it is also a high display of social aesthetics, artistic aesthetics, and ceramic aesthetics in this era, just like we say today that pastel porcelain more than 200 years ago was Qianlong; More than 100 years ago, pastel porcelain is Zhushan Bayou, and then a few decades later, when it comes to ceramics in this era, there is only Wang Xiliang, ** TV station summed up Wang Xiliang master is particularly classic and in place, Wang Xiliang has become a monumental ceramic art master of this era, and he will become one of the most important figures in the history of Chinese contemporary ceramic art!
In Wang Xiliang's 90-year artistic career, he has created many excellent ceramic works, but only ten pieces can represent his most ceramic art level and have unique heirloom value, which is called "Top Ten Masterpieces" by the industry.
One of the masterpieces: Jianguo porcelain
"Jinggang Mountain, the Cradle of the Revolution".
Artistic features:Wang Xiliang landed on the pastel landscape porcelain supreme representative, a watershed in the history of ceramics in New China in the past 100 years, marking the transition of Chinese ceramics from Zhushan Bayou to Wang Xiliang's era. Heirloom Value:The 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China major commemorative porcelain, it and Fu Baoshi's Chinese painting "Jiangshan Duojiao" together with the Great Hall of the People to become the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China porcelain painting, and the Great Hall of the People has become a national treasure classic of China's ceramics in the past 100 years, is a monumental work that has established the status of Wang Xiliang's ceramic art.
Masterpiece 2: landscape porcelain
"Four Thousand Miles of Yellow Mountain" porcelain panel painting
Artistic features:The finishing touch that can best represent Wang Xiliang's landscape art style is his representative work of middle-aged porcelain painting style change and landscape art transformation.
Heirloom Value:This work is the most representative symbol of Wang Xiliang's landscape art porcelain, which was auctioned for 7.82 million yuan in 2005, becoming the highest record porcelain of Wang Xiliang's pastel porcelain art auction, with irreplaceable collection value and inheritance value.
Masterpiece 3: Art porcelain
"Twelve Golden Hairpins" pastel pair bottle
Artistic features:: Wang Xiliang's representative of the highest level of classical figure art porcelain in his later years, focusing on the master's hand-me-down skills of master Wang Xiliang's pastel classical ladies.
Heirloom Value:The Dream of Red Mansions on porcelain, the twelve hairpins on porcelain, the literary masterpiece "Dream of Red Mansions" and Wang's Ground Pastel are perfectly combined, Wang Xiliang Powder Porcelain Figure Art Porcelain Peak Masterpieces, its use of color, the wonder of color, the wonder of the pen, can be called the supreme classic of Chinese classical ladies porcelain, unique value!
Masterpiece 4: Inheritance porcelain
"Sunrise in the East" century-old pastel porcelain Wang Zun
Artistic features:Wang Xiliang landed pastel, Zhang Songmao heavy industry pastel, Xu Ya feng shui peach blossom, Zhang Songmao piled white snow scene, the four major auctions of more than 100 million ceramic stunts in one.
Heirloom Value:Wang Xiliang's only tribute to the Zhushan Eight Friends ceramic art masterpiece, is specially created to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Zhushan Eight Friends Association, the three Zhushan Eight Friends Art Descendants jointly created, the four Zhushan Eight Friends inheritance stunt for the first time, inscribed in the history of art contemporary pastel art masterpieces, absolutely handed down to the world.
The fifth masterpiece of the world: the founding of the party porcelain
"Fu Lu Shuangquan" pastel pair bottle
Artistic features:Wang Xiliang's ceramic art career is the only vintage porcelain, the first time in history since the art to repaint the Qianlong pastel national treasure porcelain in the Forbidden City, "Hundred Cranes" and "Hundred Deer".
Heirloom Value:The 100th anniversary of the founding of the party major commemorative porcelain, is Wang Xiliang master in the 100th year of the art summary of the work, the founding of the party, the porcelain king 100 years old, double hundred, the only porcelain king, Wang Xiliang founding, the founding of the party, the founding of the army one of the three major national art porcelain, the subject height, the value of the height, the artistic height, enough to pass on to the world as a porcelain classic.
Masterpiece 6: Army porcelain
"Glory Ninety-Five Porcelain Honor
Artistic features:In his later years, Wang Xiliang changed the method of landing pastel porcelain representative, changing the previous single-theme painting style, but the landscape, flowers and birds, dragon pine, green bamboo, mountain stone and other landing pastel art masterpieces in one fell swoop, with a 360-degree view, full of work and color rare art form perfect display.
Heirloom Value:Wang Xiliang's 90 years of porcelain art creation is the only one of the army porcelain, the highest specification of the national porcelain office to create the 95th anniversary of the founding of the army, the only one with the same value as "Jinggang Mountain, the Cradle of the Revolution", the 95th anniversary of the founding of the national treasure cultural relics porcelain in the collection of the eight major military history museums.
Masterpiece VII: National Gift Porcelain
"Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains》National Porcelain Zun
Artistic features:Wang Xiliang is the representative of the artistic style of literati porcelain, which is his best at the landing pastel landscape "stunt porcelain", which is painted in color, the sunrise in the east, the red halo of ten thousand peaks, the soul of the pen, and the universe everywhere.
Heirloom Value:Wang Xiliang's only national gift porcelain was presented to the four major SCO member states as a national gift; The embassies of the four major SCO member states in China: Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan.
Masterpiece VIII: World Collection Porcelain
Golden wire enamel "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang>> Imperial Porcelain Double
Artistic features:Wang Xiliang's artistic changes in his later years, the first porcelain of artistic innovation, Wang Xiliang's master for the first time will be the floor color porcelain painting and the royal enamel color integration of innovative works.
Heirloom Value:As the first piece of enamel porcelain since the first generation of grandmaster Wang Xiliang from the art, it is also the first time that his ceramic art works have gone abroad, influencing the world, and the first Chinese contemporary enamel color instrument has been --- the only collection of the Dubai Art Center, the world's top porcelain created by China's contemporary top ceramic masters, which is quite collectible and inherited.
Masterpiece 9: World Gold Medal Porcelain
"Longevity and longevity>> Pastel on the bottle
Artistic features:Wang Xiliang's only textbook of porcelain painting is a model of all kinds of art, with as many as 43 characters, form planning, expression design, charm portrayal, as many as 15 environmental background treatments, scene creation blending ratio, and detail processing, which can be called a classic.
Heirloom Value:Wang Xiliang's 90-year artistic career, the only one of the world's gold medal porcelain, since the art, won the world's gold medal of the first ceramic masterpiece, China's only one in the past 100 years and Zhushan Bayou Wang Dafan 1915 Panama International Exposition ceramic gold medal "Rich Longevity Examination" on a par, and comprehensive transcendence of the heirloom porcelain.
Masterpiece 10: swan porcelain
"The beauty of China》Chinese porcelain double.
Artistic features:This product is a major national art porcelain created by Wang Xiliang in his lifetime, which is an important witness to his porcelain painting style in his later years, and comprehensively surpasses the classic art of 7501 Mao porcelain in terms of artistic achievements.
Heirloom Value:This product has not yet been marketed after the creation is completed, and on March 13, 2023, its creator Wang Xiliang has driven the crane through the ages, and it has also become the only one in the field of contemporary ceramics that is rare for a hundred years of a generation of grandmaster art swan song.
itYes, the first artwork ID card of Chinese contemporary ceramics;
itIt is the first porcelain produced by the Jingdezhen Ceramic Research Institute of the contemporary new official kiln;
itIt is the last Jianguo porcelain supervised by the National Porcelain Office of the Contemporary Imperial Porcelain Office;
itYes, the first major cultural relics porcelain with the theme of the founding of the country was collected by the six historical museums of the great men of the founding of the country;
Wang Xiliang's masterpiece can be called: the last out of print Only this one has the historical, rare, and unique nature that cannot be replicated, and the uniqueness, commemorativeness, and epochality that cannot be replaced. It has unrivalled heirloom value.
From the porcelain plate painting of "Jinggang Mountain, the Cradle of the Revolution" to the double respect of Chinese porcelain, Wang Xiliang's top ten masterpieces represent Wang Xiliang's 90-year porcelain art road, different themes, different crafts, and different styles of masterpieces in different historical periods. Master Wang Xiliang has left us forever, with the passage of time, these ten masterpieces will become our Chinese ceramic art history, a ceramic art coordinates, a ceramic art monument.
Chinese ceramic art market, 200 years ago to see Kang Yongqian; 100 years ago to see the eight friends of Zhushan, nearly 100 years to see Wang Xiliang, the future Wang Xiliang master of the top ten masterpieces, will also be with the Qing Dynasty Kang Yongqian, the best Zhushan eight friends, become the ceramic collection market vane!