Fangwei Li. Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. Selected Graduate 2019

Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. Shanghai, China.


The workers think that the main problem of Chinese contemporary metal utensils art is that the creative concepts of the work are relatively traditional, and the works need to increase its relation with people. In response to this point, the author tries to use metal utensils as an artistic expression to integrate the figurative expression in traditional aesthetics into contemporary handmade metal utensils with a simple method through the ideas of the Western handicraft movement. The author believes that the simple figurative artistic expression could meet the aesthetic needs of the times. The worker demonstrates the value of figurative performance and the contemporary integration of metal utensils through theoretical research and practice.

Based on the background of today's cultural faults, this paper will take metal utensils as the artistic carrier and use a series of figurative expressions to enhance the balanced level of external expressions and internal spirit of contemporary handmade metal utensils. To testify the figurative expression plays an innovative role in the study of contemporary handmade metal utensils through theoretical research and practical creations.

As for theory, the workers firstly study the basic concepts and formation process of figurative expression. Learn from the main ideas of the representative Xi Zhu, and his interpretation of the metaphor in the aesthetic theory. Based on the above, to illustrate the relationship between figurative performance and handcrafted metal utensils in history to create the needed theoretical background for the thesis. In this paper the author states the preconditions of Chinese traditional figurative representation of metal utensils, and the problems existing in the development of Chinese contemporary handmade metal utensils under the context of today's cultural blending exchanges, as well as to testifying the value of the figurative expression of handmade metal utensils through the analysis of works.

Name of graduation student: Fangwei Li.
Name of the guiding teacher: Xing Guo, Jiaying Xu.

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