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Multifaceted Imagery Poetry and Painting in Jade Sculpture
Master Yuan Jiaqi's new jade sculpture stresses the unity of man and heaven. The visual effect of their poetry and painting endows his jade sculptures with an academicist elegance befitting of the times. This reflects both his profound reassessments of traditional jade sculpture-its development as a utensil, as a technological product, as a craft object, as a trinket, and as decoration-as well as his inheriting of tradition even as he critiques it. In his explorations, he casts off old forms as he absorbs new ones, assimilating other art forms, appropriating them, and reshaping them into new creations. All of this is rooted in his near-religious devotion to jade sculpture and his sense of sacred responsibility to elevate jade's value and status within the arts. His series of large-scale jade sculptures is suffused with epic overtones alongside a sense of unity between man and heaven, such that there is a hint of divine inspiration in each work. Yuan uses his aesthetic attainment to elevate the content of his carvings, giving the viewer a sense of both his material mastery and his creative transcendence. By controlling formal elements and spatial depth, minute details blend together into a fluid, unified composition, one whose spirit is lively and beautiful. Though many of his works are massive undertakings, like polyphonic symphonies, the overall structure is harmonized into a single whole, meticulously crafted to the finest detail. This jade carving is no longer just a trinket, a small toy, or a decoration; it is an artistic masterpiece of profound aesthetic value. Because it's beauty lies in the transcendence of its utility or any component part, the sense of the formal whole nurtures a richly significant charm, one that produces what we might call the true spirit of art.
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