Jingmei Xiao

In current researches on Arts and Crafts, traditional art development usually follows the linear pattern of “Inheritance-Development -Innovation”, and regards innovative ability as the prominent measurement criteria for its practical value. As one of the Chinese traditional porcelain ceramic decoration craftsmanship, carving art also encounters the theoretical and practical pressure of innovation. Current researches mainly discuss porcelain carving innovation from the aspects of source of Craftsmanship, formal characteristics, or changes in theme, the analysis often remains at the result-level, rarely reflect the evaluation logic behind the innovation appeal. Based on this, this article starts from the artistic performance, focuses on the image generation method centered around engraving marks in porcelain carving, analyses the structural tension it presents in contemporary social context. And the intaglio engraving should be understood as shifting from a fixed artistic style to a generative artistic technique. Further discussion will be made on its innovative possibilities in contemporary creation. It also provides a different understanding perspective and methodological thinking for the contemporary research of intaglio engraving and related traditional crafts through a transformation of the perspective at the methodological level.

Porcelain carving; Traditional craftsmanship; Carving language; Innovative approaches; methods

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