Craftsmanship 丨 Luo Yanyi: "Move" the murals in the grotto into the city

Tianshan.com reporter Shen Zuxiao

Turpan Berzilk Grottoes murals, worship city Kizil Grottoes murals, Kuki Mu Tura Grottoes murals ... In the Urumqi Vocational University Luo Yanyi Arts and Crafts Master Studio Cricket art works, this is the result of more than ten years of research on Luo Yanyi.

"My wish is very simple. Putting the murals retained in the grotto" move "into the city, so that people can appreciate the exquisiteness of the millennium murals outside the cave." Luo Yanyi said.

Luo Yanyi studied the production of grotto murals in the studio. Photo by reporter Shen Zuxiao

Luo Yanyi likes and starts to study the cave mural production process in 2009. It is not difficult for him to paint the grotto murals, but it is a big problem for making mud boards used to carry the grotto murals. "The mud plate made of ordinary soil is easy to crack and deform." Luo Yanyi said, and later finally found soils that were suitable for making mud in Turpan and other places. It is not enough to have soil. After hundreds of repeated tests, rice slurry, egg white, bone glue, and clay, with wheat straw as tendons, mixed with the proportion of mixing, a suitable mud board finally formed.

With the mud board, the next step is to paint murals. In order to achieve the high degree of restoration of the grotto murals, Luo Yanyi went to Turpan, worship the city, and the car to study and copy many times. In large and small grottoes, he often treats it for a day, and sometimes he forgets to eat. "It's not easy to go for a trip. Besides, he devoted himself to those exquisite murals, forgetting time and space, and even he would forget it. There was only painting in his eyes." Luo Yanyi said.

In Luo Yiyi's studio, a 3.25 -meter -long and 2 -meter -wide Berzi Krik Grotto was stolen from the mural "Vows". "German explorer Le Kirka once brought" Vows "to Berlin, but was unfortunately destroyed in World War II." Luo Yanyi recovered and reproduced the destroyed grotto murals according to the original size according to the information.

"Each mural recovery and reproduction takes a long time. The" recovery 'is very difficult. Each flaw and every crack must be consistent with the original murals. "Luo Yanyi used mineral paint to make old and solid color. It took half a year for half a year. Time created this mural of "Vows".

Handmade drawing cave mural cycle and high technical requirements. In 2019, Luo Yanyi and his studio team began to develop the entire set of craftsmanship that can perfectly reproduce the original appearance of the mural. In 2020, the team captured the difficulties such as the cracked matrix, and successfully developed the formation of the "Clear Trace" version of the forming process and used it for practice. It solved it and solved it. The problem of accurate shape of mural templates. "The hand -drawn cave murals that need to be completed in the past half a year can be completed in one month." Luo Yanyi proudly said that the grotto murals created with new crafts are even more lifelike.

Luo Yanyi, who has advanced skills, has won various awards. In the National Vocational College Skills Competition, hosted by the Ministry of Education in 2011, he and the team's "Western Region Grottoes Macration Recovery" and other works won collective third prizes. In 2019, he, he, he The studio was awarded the "Master Studio of the Autonomous Region Tourism Service and Tourism Commodity Products Production Skills"; at the 25th Autumn Guangzhou International Art Fair in 2020, the pictures of the grotto mural works he recovered and reproduced were used as the background map of exhibition tickets.

Ingenuity, choose one thing, love life. In order to make the cave mural recovery and reproduction technique, with the efforts of Luo Yanyi, Urumqi Vocational University included the cave mural recovery process course as the school -based course into the training plan. He has trained nearly 300 students in arts and crafts design.

In the past two years, Luo Yanyi has focused on the creation of art element cultural and creative products in the grotto murals. His cultural and creative product notebooks, coasters, U disks, scarves, etc., some are cute and cute, some are high -end atmosphere, beautiful and practical.

"These cultural and creative products are the murals that can be brought home, allowing more people to understand the history and culture of Xinjiang through cultural and creative products. During some exhibitions, the visitors can't help it." Luo Yanyi said. The development of cultural and creative products of elements hopes to let more cultural relics live and enter millions of households.

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