Tang Chunfu
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of 11 he became a disciple of Shi Guanghong, a monk and artist at Huading Temple, and learned the dry-lacquer cloth (ganqi jiazhu) technique.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Born in September 1952 in Tiantai County, Zhejiang Province, he is of Han ethnicity. He is a national representative bearer of Tiantai Mountain Dry-Lacquer Cloth Technique, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He is a senior arts and crafts artist and a Master of Chinese Arts and Crafts. He specializes in sculpting Buddhist images. He founded the Tiantai Mountain School of Arts and Crafts, the Zhejiang Tiantai Mountain Art Museum, the Zhejiang Tiantai Mountain Buddhist City and the Taizhou Museum of Traditional Art. He has a thorough command of the forty-eight process stages and more than one hundred and sixty operational steps of the technique. He has devoted himself to recovering, collating and researching the technique, documenting its workflow, restoring a complete traditional craft workshop and establishing a collection gallery of dry-lacquer cloth works.
Honors & Recognition
He plays the role of a veteran artist in mentoring and passing on skills, and he trains successors to the craft. His works have won numerous gold medals at international and national level and are held in the collections of museums and art galleries in more than sixty countries.
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