Used By The "shift" Art "to Explore The Development Of China's Contemporary Lacquer

As far as we know, China is the earliest country that uses lacquer. Original essential of lacquer is in practical functions and it belongs in the category of material products, which can be proved by the Red Lacquer Bowl discovered at Hemudu sites. Its appearing has opened up a new era of Chinese Lacquer Art that plays the role of practical functions. The use of Lacquer-ware in ancient China permeated into every side of people life. Hence, it has gained all-round development. However, for many reasons Lacquer-ware has gradually withdrawn people's living field in Modern Times, and its development was from focusing on function to ornamental. Till today, traditional Lacquer-ware makes further artistic description, thus, Lacquer-ware has already developed into an independent Artistic Language, and the pure spiritual Lacquer Painting and Lacquer carving appeared. Thereby, the integrity of Lacquer Art is lost.At the beginning this article introduces the origin and evolution history of lacquer-art. After analyzing and reference the reason of lacquer-art evolution and the latest development of lacquer-art in Japan and Korea, this article brings out its essential idea "harmonizing the practical and beautiful aspects of lacquer-art" to bring the traditional Chinese lacquer-art into the modern life. Based on this idea, it is necessary to exploit the industrial production way of lacquer-art in order to bring much more usage of lacquer-ware. It is required the lacquer-art artist to popularize the education of lacquer-art, increase its culture influence. To get the acceptance of lacquer-art in today's society, the lacquer-art artist should increase their taste to catch up with the society improvement. New technology and new material will also help the industrialization of lacquer-art, including its design, production and sales. Actually the lacquer-art development is activated by several different aspects. Among them, practicality, beauty and society-character are the critical factors. In a word, "Harmonizing the practical and beautiful aspects of lacquer-art" will lead to a modernized lacquer-art considering the combination of lacquer-art and modern life.