Nowadays, a carving method is popular in jade carving - free-form carving. With the ingenuity of jade carvers, free-form carving jade works seem invisible but more valuable than the visible. With the simple design of jade carvers, the artistic conception of natural jade raw stones is sublimated, and the works become distant and profound.

The benefits of freehand carving

Free-form carving emphasizes not over-carving the jade, using extremely little labor and using the simplest carving to express the jade carver's creative techniques. This approach can well preserve the natural form of the jadeite raw stone, show the natural beauty of the raw stone, and display luxury in a low-key manner.

Jade carving creation focuses on meaning and realm, and does not necessarily pursue the correct structural proportions of objects in modeling. In Chinese painting creation, there is a common technique called "leaving blank space", which is the imagination space intentionally left by the painter. The creative logic of free-form carving is similar to "leaving blank space". Free-form carving is a seemingly unintentional but intentional design by the jade carver, in order to render a beautiful artistic conception and give the viewer more imagination space.

Why is freehand sculpture popular?

The popularity of free-form sculptures is closely related to the current trend of minimalism. Less is more can make the visual experience more comfortable, and it can also reduce complexity, retain the authenticity and purity of objects, and pursue a higher quality of life.

After seeing too many jade carvings with complicated craftsmanship and a single creative subject, one will inevitably feel aesthetic fatigue and turn to pursue freshness. The free-form carvings have various shapes, are full of individual beauty and imagination, and each one has its own "flavor", profound artistic conception, and is more playable and attractive.

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