Talking about jade carving techniques: Can you tell what this technique is?

"If jade is not carved, it will not become a useful object." The works of many jade carving masters have both form and spirit, and they use clever colors and are natural and amazing. Like the expression techniques of fine arts, the basic elements of jade carving techniques are points, lines, surfaces and bodies. By extending the basic elements, drawing ideas and meticulous carving, the charm of jade can be expressed vividly. Do you know what are the common craftsmanship techniques used in jade carvings?

Depending on the craftsmanship, common jade carving techniques include relief, round carving, and openwork carving. In the actual carving process, jade carvers often combine a variety of expression techniques, apply their skills according to the material, and come up with ingenious ideas. Let’s appreciate the exquisite craftsmanship of the jade carvers!

Round Sculpture

Round carving, also known as whole carving or three-dimensional carving, is a comprehensive carving process that carves from all angles and is not dependent on the background. The finished carving has a complete shape. When appreciating this type of jade carving, you can carefully appreciate it from different angles, and each aspect tells its own story. The round sculpture technique has strict requirements on the control of proportions.

Relief

Relief is also called embossed carving. As the name suggests, the patterns and designs on the surface of jade appear raised when viewed from the side. Most jade carvings are flat jewelry, which focus on expressing the three-dimensional effect of the front facade of the jade, while the back facade is mostly an undecorated plane. It is commonly worn as jewelry.

Relief can be divided into shallow relief, medium relief and deep relief. That is, as the depth of the carving knife changes, the jade shape has different visual effects. Among them, deep relief works have the strongest sense of three-dimensionality.

Openwork

Openwork carving is also known as hollow carving. Based on the relief technique, it retains the protruding patterns and decorations, and presents the exquisiteness of jade in the form of a screen by partially or completely hollowing out the background pattern. The craft of openwork carving can be traced back to the perforation technique, and it has been continuously extended and applied to jade carving works. Openwork can be divided into single-sided openwork, double-sided openwork and multi-layer openwork. Single-sided openwork refers to carving on the front side, double-sided openwork refers to carving on both the front and the back side, and multi-layer openwork refers to carving on multiple levels.

Intaglio

Intaglio carving is very distinctive, with the surrounding materials protruding and the main part that needs to be expressed being recessed.

With rich experience and in-depth understanding of jade, jade carvings can be seen as a fusion of various carving techniques, displaying its magnificent artistic beauty. Every piece of jade carving is the result of a spiritual cleansing dialogue between the jade carver and the jade, and is integrated with aesthetic concepts and cultural origins. It is a pursuit of beauty and a spiritual sustenance.

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