source: Shandong commercial newspaper
for nearly 30 years, every piece of work is not to sell the ten Art Festival next year, he wants to show our Ji'nan color
Chen Junling old man and his clay sculpture
Chen Junling, who lives in the West community of the street district of the Mountain Road District, has been known as the "mud man Chen" reputation in Ji'nan, and he is infatuated with the traditional the Yellow River mud man art for nearly 30 years. Since 1994, he began to create a group of folk works, with his good but lost color, and the folk craftsmen and folk custom figures that have disappeared or are disappearing. Now that the work is full, the elderly want to give them an exhibition before the ten Art Festival, but they have been unable to find the right place.
it has been done with nearly 100 works "I'm going to make a play with my work," Chen Junling showed the reporter a new work that he had just finished, showing a mother who was pushing the pancake paste with the naughty son, "the parent lets the child help the mill, the child beeps." The mouth was a little upset and did not work hard, while the mother smiled and looked at her son as she pushed back, so that it would show a sense of life. Chen Junling, the old man who explained his works to the reporter, was called "mud man Chen". He was fond of calligraphy and painting since he was a child. After retiring, he picked up his hobbies and lost the traditional Chinese folk color art on the basis of calligraphy and painting. From mythical figures to historical figures, to lifelike worms, and even to make a real bronze and jade with mud, Mr. Chen's skills are becoming more and more mature. In 1994, at the Baotu Spring Park in Ji'nan, Mr. Chen held a personal color art exhibition. "When the central leader of Ji'nan inspecting at that time looked at my work, the works of art should reflect life, and my works live very well." After that, I began to think about the creation of a group of folk personages, portrayed by the folk craftsmen and folk custom figures that have disappeared or disappear in the form of colored plastic, and can also leave some vivid images of folklore culture to the later generations. "Until now, this group of works of Lord Chen has already had nearly 100 finished products.
to show the exhibition, we can not find the right exhibition space in the house of Chen, and the wall's glass cabinet is full of his clay sculpture. "You see, it's all in the box under the table and under the chair." Mr. Chen's clay sculpture is exquisite and meticulous, a lot of people see all the praise, many people want to buy his works high, but he does not sell, "a Taiwan businessman likes my clay sculpture very much, once found me three times, to buy my work, how much money can, but I just want to give up, and I most hope to be able to work the work." Show out so that more people can see it.
Mr. Chen last held an exhibition of personal works in 1994, after which some people contacted him in succession, but most of them borrowed part of his works for folklore display. Now he would like to show up his Folklore Series. "Let more people know these old and vanishing old things, next year." It is the ten Art Festival, and more people can understand the traditional Chinese folk art.
"to see a few sites is not appropriate, because the clay sculpture is different from the calligraphy and painting, it is a three-dimensional thing, it needs four weeks to show, the space will be larger", and the mud plastic handling is also a difficult problem, "it is better to carry on a long time display, otherwise the moving back and forth is too much trouble," Before someone else borrowed my works to show, some of the works were damaged in the way of transportation, and basically they could not be repaired.
color plastic techniques used to tell the old man 4 thousand words about the production experience of the folk craftsmen and folk custom figures who have been disappearing or disappearing. In fact, the Chinese traditional folk color plastic art is also facing the loss. "Clay sculpture is difficult to inherit, because it is not only a simple technique, but also a kind of artistic conception. Now, most of the students are modern abstract sculpture, few people can be patient to learn traditional clay sculpture skills. In fact, Mr. Chen also took the apprentice. "At the time of the exhibition, a more than 40 year old man must kneel on the ground must worship me as a teacher, but for a while, he can not do this fine work." "Every day I watch these clay sculptures in the house, and then I think of the scenes of the production at that time. So I think it's better to record these things. There are many calligraphers and calligraphers in China since ancient times, but there are few clay figurines. Word of mouth, teaching words are very few, but my ability is limited, can only be counted as my own experience. In order to be more convenient, Mr. Chen also followed the little granddaughter to learn the computer, "the phonetic alphabet is also from the beginning, now has written nearly 4 thousand words, but also to further repair and supplement." Reporter Chen Xinru