Can Ceramics Resist Market Bubbles

In recent years, there has been a beautiful landscape in the collection industry. Jingdezhen art ceramics, especially famous masterpieces, are increasingly favored by ceramic enthusiasts and investors. The works of national masters are frequently worth hundreds of thousands or even over one million yuan* **, the price even exceeds the ancient ceramics. At the same time, as a batch of ceramics boutiques were successively floated across the sea and were collected by foreign museums and museums, some experts pointed out that if Chinese culture wants to influence the world as well as the Chinese economy, it must rely on unique cultural species. The cultural varieties that hope to ride the world's art market should be ink painting and ceramics, because these two plates are the Chinese's own "weapons." The right to speak and aesthetic standards have a unique national character.

From the 13th to the 24th of this month, the "Jingdezhen Contemporary Ceramic Classic Art Exhibition" sponsored by the Jiangxi Institute of Ceramics will be held at the Lingnan Exhibition Hall in Ersha Island, Guangzhou. More than 200 exhibitions will be held from "inheritance and innovation". The perspective reflects the current level of the masters of the three generations of ceramic masters in Jingdezhen, Jingdezhen, and explains the artistic essence of modern and contemporary Jingdezhen ceramics. Take this opportunity to fully understand the current status of Jingdezhen's artistic ceramics and see if they can resist the market bubble.

Masters gather creative thinking

The hometown of ceramics is in China, and Jingdezhen has a reputation as a “porcelain capital”. We know that the history of Jingdezhen made porcelain began in the Han Dynasty and was formerly known as Changnan Town. In Song Jingde's first year (AD 1004), the imperial court ordered that the imperial porcelain be burned here. The last paragraph was the “Jingde year system”. The royal porcelain won the emperor’s appreciation, and Jingdezhen also won the unprecedented Emperor’s year in Chinese history. No.1 was awarded with the name of the place. From the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, emperors of the dynasties had sent officials to Jingdezhen to supervise the use of porcelain in the courts, set up a porcelain office, set up a kiln, and created countless ceramic treasures. The ancient porcelain workers in Jingdezhen used their diligence and wisdom to create ceramic arts and arts with oriental artistic features and Chinese national style characteristics. They also exported the source of the “Ceramic Road” at sea and set up economic and technological exchanges between East and West and cultural and artistic exchanges. Hongqiao has promoted the development of human civilization.

Entering modern society, although the status of the "porcelain capital" has been affected to varying degrees, Jingdezhen is still intertwined and integrated with its excellent traditional culture, ancient ceramic arts and modern consciousness, and it has a new vitality. It turns out that in this fertile field of art, there are kiln fire payers from generation to generation who are “groups of pottery and pottery, all the hearts of porcelain.” Today, almost half of the national ceramic masters work and live in Jingdezhen, such as Wang Xiliang, Qin Xilin, Zhang Songmao, Wang Longfu, Li Jun, Zhang Yuxian, Li Jusheng, Liu Yuanchang, Wang Enhuai, Dai Ronghua, Xiong Gangru, Xiong Hanzhong, and Wang Guiying. For example, their works basically represent the highest level of contemporary ceramic art.

In addition, as a cradle for the cultivation of high-end artistic talents, Jingdezhen also boasts the only ceramic undergraduate institution in China – the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, the Institute of Light Industrial Ceramics, the Ceramic Research Institute of Jiangxi Province, and the Ceramic Research Institute of Jingdezhen City. The first-class ceramics scientific research institutions, the old "shishishitu, father-son" inheritance relationship is gradually disappearing. The creative thinking of art has changed from closed one-way thinking to pioneering multi-directional thinking, and thus there has emerged an innovative trend of integrated application of a variety of disciplines, a variety of techniques, a variety of materials, and a variety of techniques. The boundaries between the ceramic art categories have gradually become blurred, and the relationship between process technology and artistic creation has become increasingly closer. These earth-shaking changes have greatly promoted the development of modern ceramic art to a higher level and depth.

Today, Jingdezhen's ceramic artists are more creative than ever in the use and development of new materials, giving new ceramic varieties a new luster. They pay attention to the comprehensive use of a variety of materials and decorative materials, give full play to the advantages and characteristics of the material, reflect the beauty of the material, the texture of the United States, and create and develop a large number of new categories, new varieties. The development and application of new materials has become an important element and gene of art creation, giving Jingdezhen modern ceramic art a new life, new atmosphere and new style.

Abandon the idea of ​​the innovative country brush more concentrated

Jingdezhen modern and contemporary ceramic artists pay attention not only to the excellent traditions of the traditional famous porcelain, but also to transform and exceed them, and to invent and create many new colors such as color glaze, comprehensive color, modern ceramics, modern blue and white flowers, glazes, and crystal engravings. Classes, new forms, new techniques, new processes, new materials.

Jingdezhen's unique ceramic art varieties are respected by the world mainly as elegant pastel blue-and-white porcelain and rich and delicate porcelain. Blue and white porcelain is known as the “Pearl of China” and has a long history of firing. Mr. Wang Bu, who is known as "The King of Blue Flowers", has a representative representation of blue and white flowers. He has praised the painters of Bada Shanren, Huang Shen, and other painters and has combined Chinese ink painting skills with blue-and-white techniques to create blue and white flowers. The "water-splitting and freehand brushing" method has formed a new style and new style that is rich in pen and ink, and fresh in nature, and is in keeping with the traditional double-checking method. At present, the "waterline method" between the two is another new style and style, and it is also a common technique used in modern blue-and-white art. Artists such as Qin Xilin, a Chinese arts and crafts master, have continued to summarize and draw on the art of folk blue-flowers in the Ming Dynasty. They grasped the essence of the folk blue-flowers, refined the simplicity of the image, the pens of the dripping pens, the abstract forms, and the simplicity of the spirit, and applied traditional techniques. With modern expression techniques, we have created a new type of modern blue-and-white art that conforms to modern social taste and modern aesthetic awareness. The works of Qin Xilin’s “Lu Xiang Jing Xiang”, Qin Xilin, Wang Enhuai, and Dai Ronghua’s first blue and white porcelain works, “Qing Yun Ya Ji - Han Ye Ke Ke Tea”, Lu Ru's “Plum Blossom”, etc. It is through the unique composition, operation of pens, and couch water that the natural beauty, implicit beauty, rhythm beauty, and internal beauty of the art are reflected in the changes of blue and white, which are pleasing to the eye.

Pastel porcelain enjoys a reputation as an "art treasure of oriental art" and is based on the fine arts of the workmanship, its softness, color and rich colors. Wang Xiliang, Zhang Songmao, Wang Enhuai, Dai Ronghua, and other masters of Chinese arts and crafts have demonstrated the charm of pastel art with concise and elegant style and exquisite calmness. The exhibition of Wang Enhuai's "Eternal Youth of China" porcelain plate paintings, as well as the pastel porcelain paintings of Wang Enhuai, Qin Xilin, and Dai Ronghua, "Spring Comes Back to the Earth," will be used for water spots, dyeing, and landing. Bring together and use, work and write, color rich and elegant, both the brush and Italy, but also full of decorative effects, the style is beautiful and beautiful; Dai Ronghua's works, "the original hand is not forbearance," Xu Yafeng works "Ting Hui "Taiyan", the picture and the shape of the ball are combined together, the brush strokes the color to dredge the Qing Ya, and the concept is set to be creative. In addition, the pastel art of a group of young and middle-aged artists from the Taoyan Institute in Jiangxi Province looks fresh and elegant, each with its own style.

Various styles of work write abstract symbiosis

The specific style and characteristics of modern and contemporary Jingdezhen ceramic art are first expressed in ceramic shapes. The artists deliberately pursued the sense of the era of modeling, changing the long-term situation in which traditional styles were used as a criterion and Chen Chen was due. Whether it is a variant of the traditional style or a new style of creation, it almost has a new look and new features, such as full shape, simple lines, slender posture, smooth transition, and strong contrast. It is in line with modern society's fashion, modern life and modern culture. Trend of thought and modern aesthetic psychology.

Contemporary ceramics in Jingdezhen have two obvious breakthroughs in the style of ceramic decoration: First, the “court” ethos that has flourished in the Qing Dynasty since the Qing Dynasty. It is full of ornaments, luxurious, and floating. It is generally rejected by most artists. The style is concise, ethereal, honest and lively. In the past, the stifling, sturdy, and stereotypical aspects of the past have been replaced by light, lively and vivid features. Second, the type of porcelain paintings and paper paintings after the Kangxi period were becoming more and more consistent. They were decorated with porcelain paper and decorated with paintings. The unification of the art scene has been broken by new styles with different styles, numerous schools, strong personality, and blooming flowers. The artist's concept of creation is escalating in the sense of renewal and decoration. He also pays more attention to the use of rich colors and materials, and pays more attention to the handling of virtual and real space, the effects of new technology, stereoscopic viewing, and the use of ceramic art language.

In the decorative theme, a rich and modern society has provided Jingdezhen ceramic artists with more creative material. Modern and contemporary works mainly focus on themes of natural scenery, folk customs, and ethnic culture. The countryside is rustic, natural, human, and full of life. For the decorative composition, in addition to the traditional theme of single-format, positive and negative main and secondary types, Kam-opening type, the pattern side foot type, the novel and unique composition of layers, resulting in such as layered flat style, sub-grid bar, scattered Dot full cloth type, whole body connection type, landscape zoom type, rotary twill type, free-wrap technique type, map-phase contrast type, yin-yang correspondence type, calligraphy and painting wall type, woolly window type, comprehensive composition type, etc. Novel form.

In addition to the traditional realism, the contemporary Jingdezhen ceramics are characterized by more symposiums, writing, abstraction, coexistence and common prosperity in addition to the traditional realism. The meticulous and meticulous, meticulous and meticulous portraitists portray the depiction of objects vividly and vividly. People are amazed at the exquisite artist's craftsmanship; whimsical, powerful, free-spirited, squishy, ​​shapeless, pleasing to the artist's chic brushwork charm and sentiment; the abstract person's ingenuity, deep implication, form and The fusion of ideas, leaving people with more room for association, trying hard to figure out the artist's deep-rooted concepts and personality, makes people feel endless.

Why is the price of the boutique high?

Today, in the domestic art market, the modern and contemporary Jingdezhen art ceramics have become the hottest works of art other than Chinese painting. For the reasons, I think there are three main points:

First, there are very few contemporary art ceramics and there is no problem of dating, and the quality can be comparable to ancient ceramics. For many years, Chinese collectors have focused their efforts on ancient ceramics. However, the headache for many collectors is the large number of ancient ceramics and high imitations. Common collectors can hardly find genuine products in the antique market; even if they encounter genuine products, their prices are often in the hundreds of thousands, millions, and even millions. Ten million yuan***, this would refuse ordinary collectors thousands of miles away. We know that today's top art is undoubtedly the artifact of tomorrow. Since modern and contemporary ceramics production has no official kiln and no kiln, it means equal opportunities for all collectors of porcelain. Therefore, the collection of the works of top modern arts and crafts masters and outstanding young and middle-aged artists with artistic potential is equivalent to the collection. Modern and contemporary "official kiln" porcelain boutique. After a decade or a hundred years, they are also valuable antiques. In addition, compared with those of ancient porcelain, the level of craftsmanship of some modern and contemporary fine ceramics has been broken through and innovated. With the help of high-tech means, no matter whether it is a type or a theme, it can be comparable to Guanyao ancient porcelain;

Second, fine art always has vitality. The late start of Chinese art collections led to the lack of accurate judgment among many Tibetan collectors in China. There were also domestic and foreign capitals involved in speculation, which made the contemporary art market bubble very large. To be fair, not all works of art are worthy of collection. The key is to choose quality products, because only genuine products can withstand the test of the market. There is the saying, "We are not afraid to buy expensive products, but are afraid to buy poor products."

Thirdly, due to the influence of the ideology of "being a device for the deification," modern and contemporary art ceramics have not been taken seriously by the collection market for a long time and started soon. The price is also at a recovery stage. There is still a certain investment potential at this stage, and it can involve collection and investment. . We expect that in the next 5 to 10 years, the contemporary ceramics collection will gradually mature and become a new hot spot in the collection market. The annual increase will be between 20% and 30%. This may be a conservative estimate because some big auction houses have been in recent years. The results of the special ceramic auctions of modern and contemporary ceramics have stimulated investors to invest their idle capital in this field.