Recently, “Zhuo Naishu’s Extraordinary Stone Carving Art Exhibition” was opened in the Boutique Museum of Gushan District, Zhejiang Museum. The exhibition exhibited the representative works of Zhuo Naishu, a Chinese jade carving master and a Zhejiang arts and crafts master. 120 pieces (groups) were exhibited in the Boutique Museum of Gushan District, Zhejiang Bo, and Wenlan Academy simultaneously, showing the types and artistic styles of Zhuo Naishu’s works in a more comprehensive way.
Zhuo Naishu once learned from Zhang Aiting, a master of Chinese arts and crafts. He is good at creating stone carvings with landscape themes, especially in the layout of pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions, courtyards, towers and other buildings. His works are mostly composed of characters and landscapes, blending feelings and scenes, infiltrating the strong spirit of the times. In his creation, he also dabbles in other kinds of works, such as characters, flowers, antique utensils, etc., which has a unique style. In recent years, his works have participated in national and provincial stone carving art exhibitions for many times and won many good achievements.
Many of the outstanding Zhuo Naishu stone carvings on display in this exhibition are excellent works that have won prizes. For example, the work “Autumn Scent”, which has won the gold medal of the “Heavenly Crafts Award” for Chinese jade carving works, makes full use of the shape and color characteristics of the stone, and uses the carving techniques of Qingtian stone carvings to carve several cucumbers of different sizes and shapes. There are birds singing and frogs singing in the yellow flowers and green leaves, It is a delightful sight with beautiful flowers and melons in autumn harvest.
For another example, the work “West Lake in June”, which won the gold medal of the sixth China Famous Stone Carving Art Exhibition, treats the purple shell of stone materials as a lotus leaf with a sense of texture, creating a work shape with strong tension. The rare golden jade frozen in the middle is carved into several groups of lotus flowers with different shapes, which can be described as the epitome of “West Lake Splendid Village in June, thousands of layers of green trees covered with thousands of red makeup”. At the moment when the West Lake lotus is in full bloom, this work is on display in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum beside the West Lake.