Bonsai Art of Lingnan Culture

When it comes to Lingnan culture, people naturally think of Guangdong music, Cantonese opera, Cantonese cuisine, Lingnan painting school, Lingnan architecture, and talk about Lingnan folk art. They only talk about color, embroidery, tooth carving, jade carving, and so on, but seldom mention Lingnan bonsai. All these are undoubtedly the quintessence of Lingnan culture or Lingnan folk art, but if Lingnan bonsai is forgotten or even abandoned, I think it is not only not comprehensive but also a great pity for Lingnan culture.

Lingnan bonsai, like other schools, is an important branch of Chinese garden art and a relatively independent category of art. It is "silent poetry, three-dimensional painting". It belongs to image art like poetry, book, painting, sculpture and photography, but it is also a living art. It comprehensively uses the knowledge of horticulture, aesthetics, biology, literature and other disciplines, and is the combination of beauty and power, emotion and scenery, matter and reason.

1. Determined selection of materials

Because of its billet, the root is stable, the root spreads in all directions, the trunk texture is mottled and there are some holes, and there are three main branches protruding. The author according to its pile blank has the characteristics of old and stable. Position it as an oblique triangle composition, high on the right and low on the left. Form a pattern that the left is heavy and the right is light.

2. Production

The work adopts the technique of storing branches and truncating, shrinking the dragon into inches, and cultivating the main branches into the top technique of natural transition of trunk thickness and the twig-making techniques of antlers and chicken claws in the Lingnan School, with hard horns and soft horns interlaced, branches buckling and extending forward, and the branches are beginning to take shape after decades of time.

3. Style and its aesthetic feeling

Through the observation of the stable foundation of the whole work, the rugged and domineering backbone, and its moral branches, it gives people a kind of vigorous and vigorous, steady movement, chic and refined artistic beauty.

Time: 2019-06-04 Click: