Are wood carvings and root carvings made by hand? How to evaluate?

Let's talk about what wood carving is first. Wood carving is to carve all kinds of people, animals or plants on wood through people's imagination, which can be used as ornamental decorations and some practical vessels.

Wood carving is divided into round carving, relief carving, through carving, shadow carving, through-air carving, mosaic carving and so on.

There are many kinds of wood carvings, which are widely distributed. Especially Zhejiang Dongyang woodcarving, Shengzhou woodcarving, Fujian Putian woodcarving and Xianyou woodcarving; Chaozhou woodcarving in Guangdong is the most famous. Woodcarving, whether practical or ornamental, inherits eternal cultural connotation and artistic charm with its ingenious creativity and exquisite carving, adding luster to our precious folk art.

Root carving, as its name implies, is based on tree roots and uses its natural form to create works with appreciation value.

Root carving is an art that turns decay into magic. According to its expression, it can be divided into two types: one is natural and the other is sculptural. Natural root carving is based on the natural shape of roots. The work is basically not carved, but simply polished, which highlights the abstract beauty of the root material itself and makes the broad and powerful natural creation more magnificent and verve.

Carving root carving, through the artist's insight and ingenious thinking, and then carving in key parts with a carving knife, gives people a beautiful image, but it is not advisable to carve too much, and try to preserve its natural form and form it. The pattern of "seven points natural, three points artificial" makes carving and non-carving skillfully integrated to achieve? The artistic realm of "the soul is hidden in nature, and the soul is absorbed in the masterpiece".

With the rapid development of market economy promoted by China's industrial production and technological innovation, machines are replacing handwork, quantity is replacing quality, individuality is replacing individuality, technology is replacing art, while pure handwork is becoming less and less, and more and more things are semi-mechanized. ?

From the artistic level, everything produced by machinery is the same, all the same, very dull and lifeless. And what is made by hand is more verve and artistic beauty.