The design technique of bonsai creation

Some people say that the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese bonsai art are "seeking elegance from vulgarity", paying attention to implication and artistic conception, paying attention to the combination of reality and reality, and paying attention to level and depth of field, so as to achieve "changing from finite to infinite" and "from boundedness to unboundedness". It is fascinating and makes people reverie and return to endless ignorance. However, if summed up more succinctly, the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese bonsai art, one is to see the big in the small, that is, famous mountains and rivers or ancient trees and flowers are collected in the same pot, using the superb technique of art to trap nature, and the other is to keep it alive. a living sense of life is injected into it.

Bonsai is by no means a scaled-down natural model, whether it is landscape bonsai, tree stump bonsai and even flowers. Landscape bonsai, a small basin, can make Huangshan strange, Taishan male, Huashan risk, Emei show, but not their models, but through these stones, water, trees, etc., make people understand their own characteristics, tree column bonsai is the same, no matter ancient pine, plum column banyan, can show a dignified, elegant appearance in the small bonsai.

Bonsai should be alive and growing. This is Chinese culture, the so-called take its course, let nature take its course, not cut out the real flowers and put them in a vase, but a living pot of flowers or a tree. In ancient times, there were people who gave potted plants as gifts, such as orchids in the drama Yan Lanzhen. Modern popular flower arrangement, although beautiful, but soon, the flowers will be abandoned, not as long as bonsai can be preserved for a long time, affectionate.

Bonsai and gardens, there are many similarities in techniques, the study of bonsai, to improve garden techniques and self-cultivation benefits a lot; in addition, bonsai is also accommodated in the garden, whether in landscape architecture or outdoor, mostly with bonsai as embellishment.

Bonsai design technique

1. Theme and idea

Bonsai must establish a theme, landscape bonsai to make strange, dangerous, male, show and other artistic conception, tree stump bonsai to make ancient, elegant, show and other artistic conception. How to accomplish these topics? Generally speaking, it is to summarize the specific "things" into one word, that is, strange, dangerous, elegant, elegant, ancient and so on. For example, if the landscape bonsai wants to be "strange", it is necessary to start with the selection of stones (shape and stone quality), but "strange" can not be separated from the "mountain", not like a mountain, which requires the artistic cultivation of bonsai. How to improve self-cultivation? It is what Shi Tao said: "search Qifeng and make a draft." There should be hills in the chest, but we still need more practice, observation and production, so as to achieve success naturally.

2. Natural appropriateness

If the tree stump bonsai is blindly pursuing weirdness, or even twisting the tree stump against the law of growth, it will be cruel, not only unbeautiful, but also unkind. How can the bonsai of tree pillars be made weird and beautiful? In addition to learning the rules of modeling beauty (such as change and unity, balance and proportion, rhythm and rhythm, etc.), it is also necessary to observe more old trees and old branches, which have experienced Phoenix frost and tenacious struggle for thousands of years before they have such a posture, the so-called jagged knot, bend the dragon, make people imaginative and boundless. From the perspective of the Bixing law of aesthetics, this is also a kind of beauty of struggle with fate, or the beauty of tragedy. Beethoven's Symphony of Destiny has the same aesthetic mood as the bonsai with a strong sense of vitality. Natural and decent, there is a deep meaning of arrogance and howling.

3. Change and unification

In any kind of art, there is a law of change and unity. For example, the buildings in the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River vary a lot, such as halls, children, buildings, pavilions, Zhai, Xuan, pavilions, Taiwan, wide, pavilions, etc., as well as hanging mountains, hard mountains, Xieshan, Guodian, Zanjian, and so on: but they are unified again, unified in structure, unified in detail, unified in material and tone, harmonious and decent in short, and beautiful in it. The change and unity in the bonsai, just in a bonsai, the stone has a change in shape, but the texture is unified; of course, the bonsai is a tree pillar, which does not seem to be unified, but attention should also be paid to its branching, bending, leaving and leaving, high and low scattered, size and density, and so on. All these should have a unified style. Whether it is sparrow plum, five-needle pine, plum column and all kinds of fruit trees, they are all awarded to combine their forms with change and unity.

4. Primary, secondary and equilibrium

Jinggui has its main attack, and so does bonsai. Landscape bonsai often has a main peak, and then add two or three peaks as a foil. Foil, despite the name Enyi, this time is not the Lord, so it is appropriate to be small and low. And should not be too central, had better be partial, the left and right sides of the space to the golden ratio is better, that is, one side is 1, the other side is 0.618. Such a main scene, the more side of the foil to choose from the main peak, the less side of the foil is close to the main peak, to achieve a balance, but also more vivid. Stone should also pay attention to the direction, the direction should be centripetal, that is, to the center of the basin. How to determine the direction of stone? This is an anthropomorphic statement, generally speaking, its "face" is its direction. Bonsai stumps can also be used in this way. However, the general bonsai of tree pillars is not arranged at once, but can only be selected after months or even years of production. Of course, there are many skills, so I won't repeat them here.

5. The concept of "this shelf"

The so-called "Ben" is the tree stump or the flower itself. The "pot" is the flowerpot, and the frame is the rack or several cases where the flowerpot is placed. The concept of "this basin frame" is a unified concept. How to unify? It is not the same form or material, but the unity of style. The style is abstract, but perceptible. Water and stone bonsai, a marble water plate, put on a proper mahogany frame, feel very unified, and elegant; a purple sand round basin, planted with five needles of pine, on several high mahogany shelves, also feel simple and unified: a blue-and-white porcelain basin, planted on the orchid, on the bamboo frame, also feel elegant extraordinary, and so on, and so on. The basin can be ceramic, can also be purple sand, mud basin also does not matter, not in the price of high or low, and in whether it is appropriate, several frames are the same, if there is a suitable stone, the basin on it, also has a different flavor, it depends on people's artistic accomplishment.

6. the relationship between bonsai and gardens.

First, the bonsai technique is easier to understand, and it is similar to the garden technique. If the bonsai technique is compared with the garden technique, it is easier to understand and grasp the garden technique. Second, bonsai is a very important sketch in the garden. Elegant gardens must also be decorated with bonsai. In most famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, you can always see all kinds of bonsai. There is a lot of talk about how to put bonsai in the garden. Generally speaking, bonsai in the garden is mostly placed in the courtyard to make it more delicate and bearable, and it often has a unified style with this courtyard, such as bamboo bushes in the garden, then buy some bonsai such as plum pile, five-needle pine or black pine, so that this environment has the literati temperament of "old cold three friends" (that is, pine, bamboo, plum). It must also be pointed out that bonsai cannot be put too much. if dozens of pots of the same bonsai are put together, this is not art, but a market for bonsai, with no style at all! It should be known that bonsai is a silent poem, which can only be grasped with certain literary and artistic literacy.

Time: 2019-05-23 Click: