Face -to -face | "Needle Dancer" Yao Jianping: Make Su Xiu art stunning the world

Author:Yangzi Evening News Time:2022.08.26

The 2nd China Arts and Crafts Expo was held in Nanjing last week. The master of arts and crafts from all over the country showed and exchanged on the same stage. A portrait embroidery created made many audiences amazing.

Su Xiu, known as the characteristics of "fine, fine, elegant, clean" artistic characteristics, is the first of the four famous embroidery in China. In detail, one 64 or even 128ths of a silk thread is often used to embroidery, which is particularly precious.

When I was young, I picked up the embroidered needle and never put it down again

Since the age of eight, Yao Jianping picked up the embroidered needle under the influence of his mother, and he never put it down again. Under the dim kerosene lamp, the time to help the mother's needle to wear the needle is still vivid. The picture of the silver needle and the color line danced, and the original Su embroidered dream was built in Yao Jianping's childhood.

Every winter and summer vacation, Yao Jianping followed her mother to learn embroidery. Yao Jianping likes embroidery. One embroidery is a whole day. It feels more interesting than school. Embroidery is like her holiday training courses. In the age of teens, small objects that practice embroidered during the holidays can be replaced with a new clothes. Living at Taihu Lake and nature are very close, and there are days when embroidery accompanied by growth, making Yao Jianping feel the satisfaction and abundance of the soul.

After adulthood, Yao Jianping took embroidery as his lifelong career. Yao Jianping has a very strong curiosity. After struggling, Yao Jianping met Xu Zhihui, a teacher who was deeply affectionate, and retired embroidery experts of the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute. Although Yao Jianping's child was eight months old when he met Teacher Xu, she still wanted to enrich herself, make an example for the child, and create a better future for herself. In the days of Teacher Xu's house, Yao Jianping learned tirelessly. He practiced his skills for more than 12 hours a day. He studied portrait portraits during the day and embroidered his more skilled cat at night. Yao Jianping's embroidered cat got the teacher's true biography. He could embroider a lifelike kitten in 9 nights. You can buy a few pounds of wool wool for the money. Essence

At the beginning, Yao Jianping did not have a lofty ideal and a big goal. Unlike the ordinary people, she had a calm and calm personality and a pair of dexterous hands, and with great enthusiasm, she invested in this complicated and meticulous handicraft skills with great enthusiasm. Find infinite fun from it.

The creation of Su Xiu art comes from life, from nature

What to embroidery, who embroidered for, how to embroider your own ideas and views? These issues have always accompanied Yao Jianping's embroidery career, so she wants to break through herself through her own efforts and practice, explore the original, and use the needle line to express the beliefs of the era.

"I often feel the changes in my hometown and the country's changes. The great era has created my life. Shi Tao, a great painter in the Qing Dynasty, proposed the" Pen Ink and ink ". I want to embroidery. And the art of innovation embroidery, telling the Chinese story with embroidery needles is my pursuit of life. "Yao Jianping said. Under Yao Jianping's pair of fiber, he raised Su Xiu to the level of art. She pursued the overall nature of the picture layout, showed changes in light and shadow, and transformed into the transformation of the realistic.

Yao Jianping's animal embroidery "Little Swan" and "Three Cat Pictures" are sprung up. Portrait embroidery "Person" and "Father" are good -looking. The "Belt and Road" theme creation "West Explosion Chang'an" and "Return to the Return" full of grand narrative tension ...

"Artistic creation comes from life, from nature." This is a word that Yao Jianping likes. "I created animals such as embroidered fish, cats, dogs, etc. It is related to me growing on the side of Taihu and home -breeding animals, and it is also related to the superb skills of the animal embroidery on the animal embroidery. On this basis, I add it In your own observation and understanding, make full use of the thickness of the wire line, the color of color, the shortness of the needle, and the direction of the silk, and the needle moves the needle according to different styling structures. It absorbs the knowledge of western painting and the creation of animals pursue vividly. "Yao Jianping said Essence In the process of growth, Yao Jianping continued to improve her humanistic cultivation, which played an important role in her artistic creation and career. She gradually realized that as a modern Su Xiu Chuan, in addition to having a skilled craft, she also had a modern vision and open mind. On the basis of respecting and maintaining the characteristics of traditional skills, we must absorb modern culture and scientific and technological achievements, and learn from other door arts such as traditional and contemporary painting and photography skills to enrich and expand the content and artistic expression of Su Xiu. To this end, she not only studied the business, carefully created, and boldly innovated, but also led her team to make many useful attempts and achieved fruitful results.

Su Xiu's works are stunning the world again and again, bringing a huge shock

With the love of Su Xiu, Su Xiu's works created by Yao Jianping have shocked the world again and again, bringing a huge shock.

The reason why Yao Jianping was well known by many people was because her Su Xiu's works were presented to foreign heads and international dignitaries by national leaders as national gifts. The institution is permanently collected. Among them, the portrait of the British couple embroidered by Yao Jianping, "Years Like a Song", described the beautiful pictures of British Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip and Prince Philip. With the moving feelings of the years and the sincere blessing to the queen couple. Between Yao Jianping, the elegant image and royal style of the Queen couple were on the silk of the puppet line. The charm temperament is perfectly expressed.

Yao Jianping said that in order to achieve the artistic effects of both form and spirit, before moving the needle, she first used the sketch method to accurately draw the character's outline to ensure the precise expressions of each creative detail. During the creative process, Yao Jianping combined a variety of traditional needle and modern needle method. Taking the eyes of the queen as an example, the most subtle details need to split a silk thread into one -sixty -fourth -fourth -fourth -fourth -fourth -fourth -fourth -fix of embroidery. The effect of the light and shadow is also integrated through the layer of the silk line layer of the color system. In addition, Yao Jianping chose a natural silk thread of 256 colors for clever color matching to achieve a satisfactory light and shadow color effect. The difficulty in it can be imagined.

For the first time, he created for his father and used the emotional Huacai for Su Xiu's art.

"Embroidery so many famous characters, but embroidered my father is another feeling." Su Xiu's work "My Father" displayed at the 2nd China Arts and Crafts Expo was sought after by many audiences, in Yao Jianping's impression His father is a very simple and helpful grassroots party member. When the masses encounter difficulties, he always stretches out his warm hand; at the same time, he also requires his children to treat others honestly, be willing to dedicate, and do everything possible to help others. For this special work, Yao Jianping has more victory in love. From his heart, the Taoism is natural, mixing the sulcid skills that have been polished for many years, and the sincere emotions of his father, let the father's image and story slowly display under the needle line, and the needle line portraits It is not only a portrait, but also with the emotional Hua Cai's attention to Su Xiu art, expressing the deep feelings of his father, and praising all the simple and firm father's love in the world.

Some people describe Yao Jianping as a "dancer on the tip of the needle". She uses a silver needle and a thin silk thread to draw a picture of a humanistic spirit and emotional picture with extremely limited means. Dance artists show their dances freely in extremely limited space. Yao Jianping also was fortunate to have the help of Mr. Zhu Longquan and others in design and embroidery research to conduct in -depth research and exploration and practice for Su Xiu's original design. Through the combination of the theory and practice after in -depth discussion, Yao Jianping's integration of the understanding and practical skills of the original and practical skills entered a deeper thinking and application. The length of length, the sparse line, the use of color, and the thickness of the lines. In the exploration and practice of the main theme works, it is fully exerting both the momentum and the level of exquisiteness, but also exquisite elements. It uses emotions, intentions, and work hard to make Su Xiu art continue to show its originality and characteristics of the times.

Since the creation of Su Xiu Art, Yao Jianping has won the highest national folk craft award -Shanhua Award for four times. On the basis of inheriting his predecessors, he has created a unique style of "integrated needle embroidery". A series of works that express the spirit of the times and the national spirit.

"Life lies in choice. I chose Su Xiu as a career struggle for a lifetime, constantly exploring, and constantly chasing dreams. Su Xiu also rewarded me, brought me applause and honor, and led my dream to reality. , Contribute everything to the contemporary Su Xiu, "Yao Jianping said affectionately. Quick question and answer >>

Z: Zhang Bi Rong y: Yao Jianping

Z: What do you think of the marketization and artistry of Su Xiu?

Y: Su Xiu has the dual attributes of craftsmanship and artistic. Based on the dual attributes of traditional Su Embroidery, the marketization and artisticness of Su Xiu have been influenced and developed together from ancient times. Over the years, the team has been walking two legs. On the one hand, Guoli Su Embroidery has visited many times with national leaders. Life should also return to life. We must not only show its artistry, but also need to apply it to actual life. In -depth tapping the point of the coincidence of Su Xiu and modern life, expanding the audience foundation of Su Xiu inheritance, and focusing on expanding the expansion The influence of traditional Su Xiu in modern life.

Z: I heard that you have also made a literary volunteer.

Y: In recent years, as a literary volunteer, I visited Sichuan, Xinjiang, Guizhou, Ningxia and other places. I used embroidery needles to help poverty alleviation, helping more embroidery maids to improve their skills, income, and embroidered a beautiful new life together.

Z: What is the difficulty of embroidery?

Y: Embroidery should be original, to be original, this is right, but it is very difficult. It first needs to innovate from ideological ideas. At the same time, techniques must be innovated simultaneously. It must absorb nutrients from traditional culture, conduct creative transformation and innovative development. It requires courage and ability. The determination to dedicate life for art.

Z: How to attract young people to join the creation of Su Xiu?

Y: The knowledge, thinking, and aesthetics of young people are more in line with this era, then they will be them in the future, so they should use their vision and aesthetics to design the aesthetics of Su Embroidery so that they can be applied to life, walking into home and home improvement Let Su Xiu not only hang in the art hall, but also integrate into our lives. I also believe that the younger generation has a tough willpower, and is a Suxiu worker who has faith, feelings, and responsible, and strives to promote the traditional Chinese traditional excellent culture.