When people are more and more superstitious, fine, may wish to turn back to look for rough beauty. The teapot craft built for normal MR Jun for thousands of years of history of civilization, in the research and creation of a teapot to study his unique insight and years, we do not bring the same grit teapot in the world.



Talking about the making of the purple sand pot, its history can be traced back to the spring and autumn period. In order to explore the long history and culture of the purple pottery pot, the author interviewed Mr. Fan Jianjun specially. Mr. Fan Jianjun was born in 1971 in Jiangsu Yixing dingshuzhen, was influenced by the seniors pot art masters Fan Dasheng, Xi Xi calligraphy and pot art, have solid and refining pot process of square pot decoration more flavor. 2007 was hired as the Beijing Yixing Museum of art and crafts. In the process has tour in a number of works of award-winning, "Quartet pumping angle" won the national gold medal pot crafts exhibition, "peach" won the first pot of China Hebei Craft Exhibition Gold pot. His works are listed in "Tao soul", "world artist" and other books and magazines. Today, Mr. Fan will lead the author and everyone into the mysterious world made of purple sand pots.



From life creation, simple elegant style:

“ originated from life ” it is the primary importance of creative design of purple sand pot. In the design process, we can learn from the nature of the fish, every tree and bush birds, creative design, such as pot body shallow plastic wave wave dragon tail out first, a pot of “ the dragon fish pot, ” other students like to simulate the wind such as the shape of the mallow “ wind sunflower pot ”; also can learn from the geometry of life, Lenovo design, such as the button of the pot lid and pot body, from small to large, the order of the sphere composed of “ ” drop ball pot; can also be based on the life of the vessels, similar design, such as “ ” Shipiao pot; it can imitate characters or organs, extension design, such as “ beauty pot ”.



Figure: famous boutique teapot Shipiao


In the teapot, generally make full use of the inherent arenaceous clay texture, not easily attached decoration, with simple elegance, this is the main feature of the decorative effect of the teapot. A considerable number of products, only in the shape of the mouth, shoulders, abdomen, feet and other parts, with a variety of lines to strengthen the decorative shape. Some products even with local objects, but also the spirit ofbreviscapine appropriate principle, according to different type, with simple or traditional calligraphy and painting patterns, depict the actual related pattern, the good sense of the decoration, the practical and aesthetic combination with storage and refreshing eye-catching artistic expression.



Inside and outside of the aesthetic experience of



The aesthetic function of the teapot has a different understanding and practice, and have different design ideas and style, some yearning for nature, the pursuit of modern product design some rhythm, recover the original simplicity, multi product design with the addition of other bright, in the use of mud with warm tone; some design ideas that retain the traditional material qualities use sand, adjust the performance of the past. But in general, most of them emphasize the use of natural material texture design. Then paste application and modeling, to fully express the product's personality. Just as a person's instrument, first of all should pay attention to how to express his inner temperament and external personality, the shape of a pot, the first consideration is how to highlight the texture of the material. Show the material beauty of the product. The so-called qualitative feeling, people is the product luster, texture, light, moist, smooth, rough performance state soft hard to grasp the feelings, and the resulting an intuitive grasp of the material characteristics and aesthetic feeling.



Tradition and Innovation:

For the teapot art people, the primary task is to inherit the tradition, because only through a good grasp of the Yixing tradition, in order to continue to learn the characteristics and advantages of ancient techniques, and imitation learning, constantly applied to his own creation, to create excellent and full of vitality of the works. The traditional forming techniques such as rubbing, shooting, striking, scraping, jointing and lighting of the purple clay pot are organically combined with the artistic modeling of the Chinese nation's cultural consciousness and aesthetic conception, thus bringing up the civilization of Yixing purple sand culture. Purple as the traditional crafts, deeply ingrained national art foundation, has a rich accumulation of knowledge and experience of predecessors, it is because of the inheritance and innovation of generations of artists of the Yixing teapot, to get more and more perfect, although the ancient and new



To be brilliant today.