Craftsman: I continue to learn for the sake of the saints

Chapter 118 Carving "Tao"

Road.

This word, whether it is the ancients or the present, or even in the entire cultural tradition, is already sacred.

Although Qin Luo dug a "pit" for himself, but in his heart, he was eager to try.

Now that the skills have been introduced.

That is, the master leads the door, and the practice depends on the individual.

Is there anything difficult in the world?
Of course there are.

However, let's keep our heads hard and work hard, that's it.

Especially in terms of craftsmanship, the fear of difficulty is actually the enemy of all.

At this moment, Qin Luo recalled everything he had learned in his mind, from sugar figurines, to wood carving, stone carving and brick carving, to incense making, clay figurines, purple sand, porcelain...

The mood gradually became calm and determined.

My heart moved slightly.

I chose a piece of jade with a slightly larger shape, and began to carve it, first looking for the texture.

Lao Tzu rode a green bull out of Hangu Pass.

This is the original record of "Tao", the most elementary pictures, and concrete figures.

There are people, cows, mountains, and roads.

An old man riding on the back of a green bull, together with the green bull, gradually took shape in Qin Luo's hands.

It exudes a dignified and solemn feeling.

Qin Luo looked at it repeatedly by himself, and immediately put it aside.

This jade carving work has already achieved the ultimate in "technique".

But, it's not enough.

Zigang Yu is one of the school, the most important artistic conception.

This is also in line with Qin Luo's aesthetics.

Artistic conception is more important than image.

Fortunately, in this system space, the available "jade materials" are almost endless.

Therefore, Qin Luo chose another oval-shaped seed material with red skin and white flesh.

The skin color is bright red and clean.

The white meat is shiny and clean.

There are a few cracks on the surface.

A sentence quietly popped up in Qin Luo's mind.

——Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, three begets all things.

Quietly observing this piece of material, Qin Luo wanted to drop the knife, but only wanted to leave a simple "one" on it.

Like an antelope's horns.

Both artistic conception and aesthetics.

It's just that, with Kunwu's carving knife in his hand, he couldn't finish this painting.

Avenue to Jane.

The complicated ones are actually not difficult, and the difficult ones are just the simplest.

On a piece of white paper, only one line is allowed to be drawn. Where and how to draw can achieve the most perfect effect?
Qin Luo held the piece of jade and closed his eyes slightly.

Lu Zigang's figure appeared in the dark, looking at the scene with a smile as if nothing had happened.

The right hand caresses his beard.

good.

He could see that Qin Luo had vaguely entered a state of "enlightenment".

Everyone says: technology is close to Tao.

However, how close is technology to Tao?
From skill to Tao, what's in between?
This kind of thing cannot be taught by the master, only by personal enlightenment.

Qin Luo is walking on this road now.

Find the most real point among thousands of thoughts, and grasp that point of inspiration among countless plans.

Carving jade, in fact, is not 100% manipulating jade, but "cooperating" with jade.

Jade, naturally cultivated, landslides and water flow.

If it falls into the hands of man, we must first understand it.

I don't know how long it has been...

Qin Luo opened his eyes, the red skin on the surface of the oval-shaped seed in his hand was scratched lightly by him, the knife extended along the trend, and the scratch extended to the white meat, neither long nor short, neither deep nor shallow , neither thick nor thin, and even the blade has a slight offset, making this scratch look like a natural crack.

The knife is finished.

Qin Luo took a look and smiled slightly.

It is it.

"If you stay in the mountains again and the water washes away for several years, it should be this pattern."

Qin Luo said firmly.

Already have a kind of absolute self-confidence in art.

Lu Zigang clapped his hands and said, "Good. Tao follows nature."

"However, this is not a jade carving."

"Jade is not cut, not a device."

"20 years later, you can use this knife."

Paying too much attention to the artistic conception without carver is useless. After all, it is difficult to find a bosom friend in high mountains and flowing water.

Yangchun Baixue.

High and low.

In human terms - you are so abstract, who can understand?

Qin Luo nodded and smiled.

Picasso's "Bull" comes to mind.

It almost represents the refined route of his graduation art.

In the process of drawing the bull, Picasso changed his draft eleven times, completely interpreting the whole process of "from complex to simple, from image to abstract".

The first version is a vivid, fat and strong bull.

The second edition, with more strokes, highlights the bull's sturdiness.

In the third edition, stop depicting the image of the bull, but dissect the musculoskeletal that it presents, and increase the texture of the skin surface.

In the fourth edition, through simplification and contouring, he began to abstract the structure of the bull, and he began to do subtraction.

The fifth edition continues to simplify and stylize, weaken the "shape" part, redistribute and combine various parts, reduce the head, expand the eyes, change the horns, and the white line diagonally passes through the body of the cow, but... the elements remain With a steady balance, it looks like a cow.

In the sixth edition, the head and tail are further adjusted, more curves are used, the structural clues are softened, the back line is adjusted, and the head and tail are balanced.

In the seventh edition, the structural lines are removed and simplified, and the subtraction is done again.

In the eighth edition, continue to simplify and recompose to make the head, legs, and tail consistent.

In the ninth edition, continue to shape the head, erase the color block area, and completely turn the whole cow into simple lines.

Tenth edition, redundant lines removed again.

No.11 version, completely simplified, the ultimate unchanged version.

It is drawn with minimalist lines and leaves a large area blank, just like children's graffiti, but it has already expressed a wonderful artistic conception, without color, giving people unlimited imagination space, chic and comfortable.

In ancient and modern China and abroad, art is interlinked.

Look at the mountains as mountains, and see the water as water.

Looking at mountains is not mountains, and looking at water is not water.

Looking back, mountains are still mountains, and water is still water.

only……

In the mind of the artist, it is quite different.

With Qin Luo's knife, the art and artistic conception were carried forward to the extreme.

Lu Zigang could understand.

But he is a brilliant teacher and a craftsman, and he understands that art is ultimately paid for.

Without enough fame and accumulation, this knife will not succeed.

This is not a compromise in artistic philosophy.

Similarly, it is also an "objective" law.

Qin Luo naturally understood what he meant, so he stood up and smiled slightly.

Choose a piece of jade again.

This time, he chose a big material, a mountain material.

Then the knife fell like flying.

The "long exam" just now really raised Qin Luo's cognition to a new level.

It's like having already climbed to the top of the mountain, and then looking at the halfway up the mountain.

Panoramic view.

At a glance.

With 120 seven knives, this work is completely completed, without any hesitation or extra knives.

It's like looking at the lines with the back of your palm, and you can do a job with ease.

This is a... asked jade carving.

cloud.

Misty clouds.

mountain.

Mountains with cliffs.

Triple cliffs, mountains and mountains.

On the cliff at the lowest level, there are steps, which spread down to the base. Compared with the size of the whole jade carving, it is extremely small, and it hardly accounts for one-thirtieth of the proportion.

Almost miniature.

and……

Even smaller is...

On the stone steps at the lowest point, a hand, strong and well-proportioned, was put up, and it was obvious that the posture of exerting force was clearly visible, as if climbing the cliff after going through untold hardships.

The sense of picture is overwhelming.

It even makes people nervous.

Trigger endless imagination.

Lu Zigang sighed for a long time, and then let out a hearty laugh.

"This piece of work is already better than blue than blue, and I am not as good as it."

He frankly admitted that he was ashamed of himself.

But he said again: "Ask, it's like climbing a ladder..."

"I don't know the end, but it's a dead end."

"Why?"

He asked Qin Luo.

Qin Luo smiled and said, "An inch of progress is an inch of joy."

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(End of this chapter)