Artist Profile
Yao Jianping, a famous Su embroidery artist, representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project (Su embroidery), master of Chinese arts and crafts, member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice chairman of the China Literary and Art Volunteer Association, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literature and Art, adjunct professor of Nanjing University, chairman of the embroidery professional committee of the China Arts and Crafts Association, a national young and middle-aged worker of virtue and art, a national "March 8" red flag bearer, and an expert enjoying special allowances of the State Council.
She has been engaged in Su embroidery for more than 30 years, won the ----- Mountain Flower Award, the highest award of national folk craftsmanship, for four times, and on the basis of inheriting her predecessors, she has created a unique style of "melting needle embroidery", "expressing the times with needle and thread", and created a series of works that express the spirit of the times and the national spirit. Yao Jianping has held solo embroidery art exhibitions in art halls such as the Shanghai Art Museum, the National Art Museum of China, and the Suzhou Museum, and has also created main works for international events such as the Beijing Olympic Games, the Shanghai World Expo, and the Shanghai Expo.
Her works have also been visited by national leaders many times, as a national gift to leaders of various countries and international dignitaries, and have been permanently collected by institutions such as the Great Hall of the People, Zhongnanhai, the National Museum of China, the National Art Museum of China, the Nanjing Museum, and Buckingham Palace.
National Ceremony Team
With the national embroiderer Yao Jianping as the core of creation, bringing together a group of senior arts and crafts artists with rich experience in the creation of national ceremonies and hall collection-level works, the team has participated in the creation of Su embroidery national ceremony tasks for many times, and the team's works have also been collected by top institutions such as the Great Hall of the People, Zhongnanhai, the National Museum of China, the National Art Museum of the First Congress of the Communist Party of China, the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai) to ensure that the creations have the artistic and technological standards of the national ceremony level.
Artistic team
With the national embroiderer Yao Jianping as the core of creation, bringing together a group of middle and senior arts and crafts artists with excellent experience in the creation of works, the team has participated in the task of Su embroidery national ceremony for many times, assisting in the creation of works collected by top institutions such as the Great Hall of the People, Zhongnanhai, the National Museum of China, the National Art Museum of China, the Memorial Hall of the First Congress of the Communist Party of China, the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), etc. Team members have won many art awards at home and abroad to ensure that the creations have treasure-level art and craft standards.
Appreciation of works
Cangsong Pride Peak
Author: Yao Jianping leads the national ceremony team
The work uses Chinese embroidery art to depict a vibrant and ancient landscape painting. Cang pine standing up, means beautiful and tenacious stretch of love, cascading peaks and waterfalls, long-standing, full of poetic feelings, while passing on the upward, pine and other beautiful auspicious blessings.
Lady of the Flowers
This group of works was selected for the coarse silk color paintings painted by Zhou Fang in the Tang Dynasty as embroidery drafts, and on this basis, the re-sublimation of Su embroidery skills was carried out. The character lines in the works are simple and round and powerful, the colors are rich and rich, and the techniques suitable for ancient painting themes such as flat needle embroidery and rhyme embroidery are adopted in the creation. The lines are simple and powerful, accurately showing the posture of the characters and the patterns of the clothes and dresses, which seem to be regular but very fluid, and the characters' hair buns and sideburns are even more delicate. The composition of the work adopts the way of flat row painting, and the ladies' gauze long skirts and flower buns are the costumes of the time, and under the background of black hair, they look elegant and bright. Convey a soft, idyllic beauty. It is a rare art item, and the collection value is extremely high.
Ruihe diagram
The original manuscript of the work is taken from the Song Huizong's work "Ruihe Tu", which the ancients painted the witness scene on silk with a painting, which was sought after by the world and passed down through the centuries. The embroidered lady skillfully uses embroidery needlework to express her unprecedented surreal technique, and the real and delicate embroidery creates a scene of cranes flying on the palace, floating clouds, low-reflected end doors, and two cranes falling on the palace. Not only did it cause the people of the Imperial Palace to look up and be surprised, but we who saw this work seemed to be in the painting, which made people excited.
Gusu bustling map partial
The manuscript of the work is based on an excerpt from the famous painting "Gusu Prosperous Map". Originally painted by Xu Yang, a court painter of the Qing Dynasty, it is now in the collection of the Liaoning Provincial Museum. Under the meticulous interpretation of Su embroidery art, the embroidery artist reproduced the style of this famous painting with needle and thread. The work uses needles as brushes and lines as ink colors, the layout is exquisite and rigorous, the momentum is magnificent, the brushstrokes are meticulous, and it delicately portrays the beautiful lakes and mountains in Jiangnan, the bustling towns along the river, the crisscrossing water ports, the boats and other scenery, and the image reflects the beautiful scenery of Suzhou, rich products, prosperity of hundreds of industries, and the flourishing scene of humanities.
The Autumn River is to be crossed
Author: Yao Jianping leads the art team
The works are based on traditional famous paintings for Su embroidery creation, and use needles and threads to express the scenery of the Autumn River with wide streams and mountains and sparse forests, with rich artistic conception and quiet and remote.
Through the interpretation of Su embroidery art, with needles instead of pens, with lines as ink, the picture lines are simple and round, neat and meticulous, the character sketches are concise and loose, quite elegant, and the scene depiction is to restore the classic characteristics of Chinese landscape and humanities painting. Through the clever excessive color, the ink color is changed, and the scene of the combination of dynamic and static in the picture is created through the comprehensive use of stitching, so that the whole work adds a lot of interest on the basis of outstanding artistic effects.