Wuhu Iron Painting is a wonderful flower in China Arts and Crafts Garden. It is necessary for artists to forge and weave pictures with hammers instead of pens. Since its birth, it has been favored by people all over the world for more than 300 years with its unique artistic style. The founder of Tiehua was Tang Peng, a native of Wuhu in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Inspired by being a steel worker, he lived next to the studio and saw it turn black every day. He created iron paintings.
Once published, The Painting of Iron was not only bought by distant visitors, but also famous among officials and ministers. Scholars regard it as something to eat and play with, and what's more, they praise it with poems and articles. Zhu Wenzao, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, made a vivid description in the poem Iron Flower: at first glance, like splashing ink and silk, landscape figures are embedded in it. The wind moves the bamboo, and the snow urges the old pole to loosen. It's freezing in China, and clothes should be added in hot summer. It is best to spend the night in the morning, where there are thousands of Cui Yan. The old traces of the Ming Dynasty have turned into a sad feeling. He thinks that the paintings of Yuan and Ming painters are eclipsed by iron paintings. Liang, a poet in Qing Dynasty, called iron painting a strange thing on earth.
He wrote "Song of Iron Painting" and said, "Who told me that magic works around the fingers and skillfully seize the pen of Jiangnan Jun's nest?" A painting is changeable, but it is eternal. Today, Wuhu iron painting is made of low carbon steel. Artists use hammers as substitutes, furnaces as inkstones, iron as ink, and drills as examples. According to the draft, they put the materials in the stove. After forging, welding, drilling, shaping, rust-proof baking and other new technologies and new processes, they drew lines on a white background and mounted them into paintings. Keep drawing, don't draw. The composition of Chinese painting is based on composition, with thin lines for distant objects and thick layout for near objects, which makes the landscape interesting, pavilions and pavilions have a sense of perspective, figures can be vivid, flowers and birds can be realistic, ingenious thinking of hammering is connected with painting theory, and painting and handicrafts are combined.
In recent years, artists have constantly innovated and created three-dimensional iron paintings, porcelain iron paintings, pure gold and gold-plated paintings. On the eve of the return of Hong Kong, which attracted worldwide attention, the Anhui provincial government presented a precious gift to the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. This painting is 350 cm long, 170 cm high and 100 kg heavy. The picture consists of Huangshan Mountain, Song Yu and landmark buildings in Hong Kong. The whole picture is magnificent, elegant and dignified, bold and free and easy, black and white, similar to traditional ink painting, with strong three-dimensional sense. This is a brilliant masterpiece created by Zhang Decai, an old artist from Wuhu Arts and Crafts Factory, and his 16 artists.