Chapter 1905: Ancient trees come back again with spring
Although the ancient trees growing in harsh environments are dead and lifeless, when you see them, you will still marvel at the magic of life.
As a gift from nature to us, many root works can be encountered but cannot be sought.
Root withering is the art of subtraction. It is trimmed according to the natural shape of the raw materials without any unnecessary decoration.
In the process of reducing complexity to simplicity, it will finally become an ideal work, and during this period, you will not be given any room for regret.
Therefore, the formation of every root wither can be regarded as a small miracle.
And good raw materials are the root of withering.
Obviously, Inner Mongolia produces good raw materials.
So what kind of material is good? The most attractive thing about Genyi is its natural shape, which is unique, strange, ancient and strange.
So, this is the root cause of the matter.
If there are no naturally formed high-quality root materials, you will definitely not be able to make good root art works.
Those reasons have caused the value of Gen Tong's works to drop slightly.
Before it was color. The colors of tree roots are divided into yellow, white, red and white. They are very beautiful and give people a beautiful enjoyment!
In May 2007, the small root sculpture "Chinese Roots" made a low-key appearance at the trade fair for a sky-high price of 90 million yuan;
Therefore, when purchasing root works, you should start from the overall perspective, try to buy original root works, and beware of root products with less artificial ingredients.
Dense and hard miscellaneous wood in the mountains and ridges, low-quality materials themselves are expensive.
For example, the number of root collections in antique markets across your country has stopped increasing, and root collections have stopped attracting the attention of some collectors. They have even withdrawn from the auction market, and their prices have steadily declined.
The roots are so difficult to form, but the price is not expensive.
The bad thing is that the wood carving technique was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008.
In order to find root materials, it is not easy for these root carving artists.
Using the root of a thousand-year-old fine-leaf red camphor wood as raw material, the camphor wood root wilting created based on "Downing the River During the Qingming Festival" is worth as low as 6 million.
Judging from the current situation, the market price of root withers has not yet shown a slight surge, and its price has been steadily declining.
During this period, prices ranged from a few thousand yuan to hundreds of thousands of yuan.
Roots with young roots and strange shapes have low collection value.
The withered roots that originally cost a few hundred yuan can now be sold for one to four thousand yuan. The prospects for appreciation are extremely bad, and the investment risk is high.
In this way, wood withering has returned to the minority's vision, and some wood withering works have regained their vitality and been appreciated by people. Therefore, the value of root withering is not much, first look at the artistic shape, and then look at the material.
In the past 30 years, he has traveled to almost every corner of the Tumut and Urad grasslands.
Recently, root withering has gradually come out of the incubation period of the past few years. It has been sought after by a group of root withering lovers, and the price has also ended.
It's just that if there is no market, no one will speculate. Especially in recent years, garlic, onions, ginger, and coriander can all be speculated, but the roots have withered.
In today's rapidly changing era, traditional industries seem to have not been forgotten by people, and the inheritors who can persist in the old craftsmanship are even rarer.
The collection value of "gen withered" lies in a strange word.
In April 2011, the giant carved lion "King of the Forest" made of golden camphor wood was sold at a low price of 18 million yuan at an exhibition in Xi Shaanxi.
No longer in shape, the tree roots are in bad shape, thin and wrinkled, and full of strange and miraculous craftsmanship. They are deeply loved!
Therefore, some raw materials of bad quality and strange quality are even rarer.
And even if the material is not damaged, it will be a low-priced product.
In April 2004, the giant "Century Elephant" withered roots was successfully auctioned for a low price of 600,000 yuan;
Holding one in hand, one can look at thousands of things, examine them repeatedly, and assess the situation according to the situation on the basis of protecting nature or harming it.
The price of root decay mainly depends on the quality of the tree roots. The root material also pays attention to the quality, shape, color, grain and meaning.
In the early 1980s, root art was at its most popular.
Some works with no story or history also have very low collection value.
Fortunately, I meet a guest who cherishes his talent and is an idiot, and the ancient trees come back to life again with spring.
When choosing root products, you should start from the overall perspective and be wary of root products with few artificial ingredients.
The price of bad root products is only about 2,000 yuan.
In the 1980s, a piece of root-carved art could fetch 300,000 yuan.
In early 1998, a root sculpture by Xiaohai titled "Four Immortals Crossing the Sea" was sold for 300,000 yuan.
In recent years, there are fewer and fewer root products with more natural ingredients and less artificial ingredients.
Before, I carefully added and deleted, seeking artistic conception in the similarities and dissimilarities, and finding the expressive spirit under the knots, scars and tumors of the roots. This is the fundamental value of root art.
There are definitely no bad grains, and this is even worse. Especially the wood grains do not have grimace lines, landscape patterns, tiger skin patterns, or water ripples. They are naturally ugly and ordinary!
So, which roots have less potential for appreciation in value?
Before the 1980s, root art creation became niche, and people who were not interested in root art could not create it on their own. The number of root art works increased slightly, and the quality was particularly low.
Of course, there are many rotten works, but in particular, they are all based on pictographs. There are very few good merchants, and they will also use the pictographs to deceive people.
The "cold root withering" gradually cooled down, and the root withering market retreated into the incubation period.
Just like the boss in front of Chen Wenzhe, when he was in Inner Mongolia, he would set out at 5 o'clock in the morning almost every day, carrying a water bottle, dry food on his back, one man and one motorcycle, and plunged into the vast grassland.
It can be said that he visited every valley in Urad.
Because in the future, the raw materials for root decay will continue to increase.
Therefore, the market price of root withering will continue to rise.
Chen Wenzhe knew that a piece of root-withered work was worth 6 million. Of course, that was definitely the lowest price. In fact, it was not common to find works worth over 10 million yuan.
But in fact, a small part of the collection value of a root work depends on the prototype of the tree root.
In recent years, the root market has gradually cooled down, and the prospects for appreciation have become extremely bad.
Therefore, at this stage, it should be the best time to collect withered roots.
The first is quality. In today's society, people are pursuing low-grade, fine wood, such as mahogany (huanghuali, rosewood, red rosewood, etc.), golden nan...
However, the process of finding the ideal root material is very difficult. It is often impossible to find a hundred trees, and it is rare to find a thousand roots.
Rotted roots and broken branches drift with the water, and a glorious life ends here.
Until now, the annual increase in root withering has been less than 40%.
Those are some special root withers, and there are some bad ones, and the price is very expensive.
Since root-carved art was very rare at the time, and each root-carved work did not have its own unique shape, the prices were very low.
The first is meaning, a bad root art tree bamboo basket, like a landscape, like a figure, like an animal, with a little bit of work, it can become a decaying work!
In just seven sentences, the carver's ability to turn decay into magic is vividly demonstrated.