There are several types of root carving, the value of natural root carving

Practical ornamental root carving works, set practical and ornamental in one, with practical value as the mainstay, and ornamental value. Common furniture such as chairs, beds, tables, stools, and tables, sofas, coffee tables, screens, and flower stands are common; There are pen holders, rulers, inkstones and other bookcase supplies made of roots. The root carving works of the ornamental furnishing category are mainly used for furnishing ornamentation, and are the main part of the root carving works, accounting for the vast majority.

According to its modeling characteristics, it can be divided into human figures, animal types, birds and birds, fish and insects, flowers and trees, utensils, aesthetics and other natural forms.

Aesthetic refers to some anonymous root art works whose natural forms are very beautiful and have great appreciation value, but it is difficult to determine the name. Other forms of root art, to be processed by root artists, generally have non-figurative characteristics, giving people a feeling of natural beauty. Materials and tools for the production of root carving Root carving, as the name suggests, is the art of roots.

The main material it uses is the root. Phase root

Nature has created a variety of roots, providing an inexhaustible source of creative materials for root artists. There is almost no case where a piece of natural root is a root art work without processing. However, the roots with natural beauty are extremely abundant and can be found everywhere.

Whether or not you can find its beauty depends on whether people pay attention to it and how good they are aesthetically. People who are not engaged in the creation of root art generally turn a blind eye to its beauty and cannot attract attention. However, root art lovers can identify the material for their eyes, and then create a work of art full of vitality.

The second is to buy from the market.

The process of finding the root material is the process of using life experience and artistic accomplishment to find the subject matter of creation. But the search for roots cannot be without focus. The common experience of root artists is:

Peculiar roots tend to grow in the most treacherous and harsh conditions of the environment. On the contrary, the roots that grow on the plains and in the fertile soil rarely have a peculiar form. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the key direction of root-seeking according to their respective living environments.

Natural root art, carved root art.

First, it is necessary to find the value of root carving from history.

If you want to collect the root carving, you must like the root carving, take it as a part of life, usually pay attention to more research and thinking, from the perspective of collection, the longer the history and culture of the general root carving, the greater its appreciation space.

Recently, the root carving artwork related to the historical theme has gradually become popular, and a raw material on the market is the thousand-year-old fine leaf red camphor wood root root of the "Qingming Shanghe Tu" camphor wood root carving, the market value is as high as 6 million, is one of the examples.

At the same time, from the perspective of shape, the more peculiar root carving works will conquer more and more collectors with their ingenious charm, so the appreciation potential is also huge; On the other hand, some of the older root carvings are also highly regarded by many collectors.

Second, the root carving with good material has great potential for appreciation.

In terms of material, generally speaking, boxwood, sandalwood made of root carving is better, their material is hard, delicate wood, not easy to crack and deform, the variety is relatively good; The color of the roots of camphor wood is relatively good-looking, simple and natural, and the fragrance is pleasant, which is a good material for making root carving artworks; The roots of yew trees are not easy to crack, deform, and decay, and change from light red to dark red until they turn reddish-brown, giving people an antique feeling.

There is a unique shape of the root carving is actually natural, only after a little carving or even no carving, an excellent work has been freshly baked, the work is vivid, let people think about it, so that people really read the microcosm of nature and even a society.

Third, the integrity and representation of good root carving collection value is high.

The most taboo of root carving is shoddy and messy splicing, which often leads to the regression of its value. Of course, in order to make the meaning of the root carving more obvious, it is essential to make some large-scale touch-ups, but it is important to maintain its integrity, otherwise it will only be counterproductive.

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Not all tree roots are valuable, first look at the material, Hainan Huanghuali, Vietnam Huanghuali, red sandalwood, yew, golden silk nan, gloomy wood ebony, cypress, precious wood root carving is valuable, in the carver, the national master works are valuable, the provincial master works secondly, and finally look at the modeling, the complete 1 root carving is valuable, the cut into the root carving is not valuable, the shape is strange and valuable, the whole material of the sea yellow is the root carving of the master work of millions of you can't buy, 5 meters of the cliff cypress is too line into the material, the flying dragon is in the sky, the auction record is 100 million.

Root carving is based on the self-generated and distorted form of tree roots (including tree body, tree nodules, bamboo roots, etc.) as the object of artistic creation, through conception, artistic processing and technological processing, to create people, animals, utensils and other artistic image works. The art of root carving is to find natural beauty and show creative processing of plastic arts, the so-called "three points of artificial, seven points of nature", that is to say, in the creation of root carving, most of the natural form of the root material should be used to express the artistic image, a small part of the artificial processing and modification, therefore, the root carving is also called "the art of the root" or "the art of the root".

Material selection is the first step in the production of root carving. The wood used for root carving must be selected with hard, delicate wood, stable wood, not easy to crack and deform, and can be preserved for a long time without decay, such as boxwood, sandalwood, beech, cypress, elm, etc. The dead roots that have been submerged or buried deep in the soil by water and silt, and the ancient gloomy root trees formed by carbonization over hundreds of years, are almost close to fossils in quality, and they are the best materials for root art.

The selection criteria for root material modeling can be summarized into four types: "rare, strange, ancient and strange", which are extremely rare in nature. The roots of trees that generally grow in plains or mountainous areas with thick soil layers are fast due to sufficient water and nutrients, and the wood fibers are also relatively loose, making it difficult to form peculiar forms. Only the roots that grow in the harsh environment, such as the growth of the sun or the cliff in the stone crevices, and through the lightning split, fire, ant erosion, stone pressure, human stepping, knife cutting and tenacious survival of the roots, due to the lack of light, lack of soil, less water and lack of nutrients, long and not gradually deformed, the longer the year, the stronger the quality, the more strange and vigorous the shape, is the ideal material for root art.

The conception of root art creation must focus on protecting the shape of nature to the greatest extent and overflowing the beauty of nature, and all traces of man-made artistic recreation must be hidden in it. In the conception, the root material should be comprehensively observed from multiple angles, repeatedly speculated, according to the shape and potential, and can be finalized after careful consideration. If the idea is immature and difficult to break for a while, it can be put aside for a period of time, and it is often a year and a half before an unexpected harvest can be found.

The differences between wood carving and root carving are as follows:

Wood carving pursues materials and craftsmanship, and there are fewer natural things. The root carving is different, the pursuit is the beauty of the natural loss, can not move the knife as much as possible, can move less knife as little as possible, and good root carving raw materials are very few, so the best root carving is a hundred times the wood carving.

Wood carving is a type of sculpture and is often referred to as a "folk craft" in our country. Wood carving can be divided into three categories: three-dimensional round carving, root carving, and relief carving. Wood carving is a type of work separated from carpentry, which is called "joinery" in our country's classification of trades.

Folk art varieties classified by carving materials. Generally, the tree species with fine and tough texture and not easy to deform are selected, such as nanmu, red sandalwood, camphor wood, cypress, ginkgo, agarwood, mahogany, longan, etc.

Introduction of the root carving:

Root carving is a traditional folk craft spread in Shaanxi Province, mainly in northern Shaanxi. Root carving, is a carving method, is one of the traditional Chinese carving arts, is to take the tree roots (including tree body, tree nodules, bamboo roots, etc.) of the self-generated form and distortion form as the object of artistic creation, through the conception of ideas, artistic processing and technological processing, to create figures, animals, utensils and other artistic image works.

The art of root carving is to discover the natural beauty and show the plastic art of creative processing, the root carving process pays attention to "three points of artificial, seven points of heaven into empty punching", which means that in the creation of root carving, the natural form of the root material should be mainly used to express the artistic image, and the auxiliary artificial processing and modification, therefore, the root carving is also known as "the art of the root" or "the art of the root".

Introduction: The artistic charm of Yabai root carving lies in the "similar and unlike", and it is not easy for the creator to grasp this feeling for design creation. But if it can be weighed well, then the "likeness" of the jayber root carving is real, which can bring pleasure to the viewer and resonate at the same time; The "not like" of the Yabai root carving is virtual, and can give the viewer an infinite imagination, imagination is infinite possibility, can arouse the viewer's interest and participation.

Artistic conception

The first point of appreciating the jayber root carving is the artistic conception. The artistic conception should not only be exquisite to retain its natural beauty, but also reflect its formal beauty, that is, to preserve the beauty and sublimate the beauty on this basis. Three points of knife work and seven points of naturalness, to be done properly.

Morphology

The second point of appreciating the root carving of the cypress is the form. In the process of its growth, the cypress has gone through tens of thousands of natural tempering, although it is strange, but it is carved by nature intentionally or unintentionally, so its form is worth slowly appreciating whether it is a rough look or a closer look. Roughly speaking, there are those who meander up, or those who circle and turn, or those who are coarse and clustered, and then those who fold and float, and those who stretch in all directions, etc.; Look closely, the surface texture of the cypress is either into a cloud pattern, or into a finch eye, or into a scar, or into a black line, or into a water ripple, or into a yin and yang pattern or a flame pattern, etc., there are a variety of textures on a root carving work, which is also worth appreciating.

Carver

The third point of appreciating the carving is the carving. This is a test of the creator's skills. When carving, in addition to perfectly reproducing the original design, it is necessary to pay attention to the subtlety when getting started.

The knife is smooth and not sluggish, which is the basis for the creation of root carving products.

Color

The fourth point of appreciating the cypress is the color. After processing and polishing, the cypress will roughly show red and white. The red is the dead cypress, and the white is the growing cypress.

Features:

The fifth point of appreciating the cypress is the characteristics. Cypress nodules are relatively rare, full nodules are even more rare and precious, and there are two kinds of nodules, red and white, and there are also red and white accompanied by the situation. Genbao stone is a rare work of art in root carving works.

The so-called root wrapping stone is that the roots of the tree grow close to the rock during the growth process, and finally wrap the stone, thus forming a form with stones and roots. Because of its intertwined shape, peculiar and subtle, it has been praised by literati and scholars since ancient times. From today's point of view, the natural root package stone is still a scene of its own, and the value level is also high.

Through the root art to achieve the aesthetic standards of the market, the root stone of the cypress has always been popular. The form of its roots and stones is a beautiful implication of holding momentum, grasping momentum, holding good luck, and running from time to time.

All in all, the carving work is a rare work of art, full of charm, the pursuit of artistic creation while retaining the natural beauty, giving people unlimited imagination, but also in line with people's current pursuit of returning to nature.