Zhan Ran constellation +0226.

Wenchuang creates new products. Teacher Zhan Ran, a Suzhou artist, presented a stunning appearance of the twelve constellations.

Reporter: Mr Zhan Ran, you created the first Suzhou art license on 20 15, which caused quite a shock in the society. Recently, I heard that you have finished the related works of the twelve constellations.

Zhan Ran: Yes, art should be integrated into life, not hung in an art museum. True art must be vulgar, art is higher than life and should be integrated into life. It is also the artist's mission to improve the aesthetic quality of the whole people.

Reporter: How did you come up with the idea of creating works of the twelve constellations? This is a difficult topic to cut into?

Zhan Ran: Yes, a series of cultural and creative works were designed in the previous stage, such as Oracle bone inscriptions. When we derive it into some daily necessities, it is favored by young people to a certain extent, because everyone has their own zodiac, which is sticky and easy to popularize. I can't help thinking of the twelve constellations. Modern young people are particularly familiar with the zodiac, and their enthusiasm seems to be higher than that of the zodiac, so I wonder why not draw the zodiac?

Reporter: How did you come up with the idea of painting for the sake of pictures? The twelve constellations are not connected with the map of Qing Dynasty at all!

Zhan Ran: You're right. This is creativity and innovation, the combination of Chinese and western! Among China's humanistic paintings, there is a painting called "The Picture of the Qing Palace", also called the Qing Palace Drama. At first, it was a flower arrangement in front of the Buddha statue to express sincere respect. The Qing Dynasty was first offered as fragrant flowers, fruits and vegetables, and later gradually developed into various cultural relics that can be enjoyed at the desk, including epigraphy, calligraphy and painting, ancient artifacts, bonsai and so on. A picture with "Qing Palace" painted during the Spring Festival is called "Qing Palace Map". It is rich, profound and appealing to both refined and popular tastes, adding a peaceful and festive atmosphere to the festival.

Reporter: After your explanation, it is really appropriate to draw a clear picture to express the twelve constellations. However, the twelve constellations are abstract, so it is not easy to choose the corresponding content. What we often see are some symbols or animal patterns.

Zhan Ran: I've been thinking about this for several days. Only by finding out their similarities and differences can we have a reasonable statement. It is impossible to draw whatever you want without a foundation. I have a friend who happens to be from a flower shop. Once I overheard them talking about what constellations like and what flowers, so I thought about what flowers are blooming in each constellation. Later, it was discovered that all the twelve constellations have their own birthday flowers and lucky flowers. I drew some flowers corresponding to each constellation, combined them into a vessel, just like arranging flowers, and added the symbols of the twelve constellations into the vessel to complete the clear picture of the twelve constellations.

Reporter: I saw that these twelve pots of flowers were not painted. What is this?

Zhan Ran: This is my black and white painting. The original painting is like this. Of course, when designing Wenchuang products in the future, we can match colors according to customers' requirements, for example, according to the lucky colors of each constellation. We call this kind of cultural and creative product "selective customization", just like buying a picture book and filling in the colors yourself, which can fill in different effects.

Reporter: Your idea really landed. On the one hand, it spreads your own art, on the other hand, it can meet the different needs of customers.

Zhan Ran: I'm so aloof and widowed that I can hardly eat at last. In recent years, I have gradually grounded myself, painted some paintings that people can accept, and made some artistic derivatives to live.

Reporter: This series of twelve constellations is rich in pictures, unique in shape, full of vitality and interesting.

Zhan Ran: I will also cooperate with interested users through copyright authorization to enhance the aesthetics and connotation of related products and jointly promote the healthy development of intellectual property rights. For example, it can be applied to all kinds of daily necessities, such as bags, pillows, mobile phone cases, cups ... food packaging is also ok, candy, biscuits and the like.