What is the story of Wang Xueqing in history?

Teacher Wang Xueqing is a graphic designer, one of the representatives of China's contemporary graphic design industry, the founder of China's graphic design basic teaching, and the leader of China's graphic design basic education.

Wang Xueqing, one of the representatives of China's contemporary graphic design industry, has not only received the influence of traditional oriental art, but also experienced the western fashion design concept in France, so that the experience shuttles through every detail of Wang Xueqing's works. In 1955, Wang Xueqing was born in an art family in Hangzhou, his parents were painters, because he suffered in the "Cultural Revolution", he did not want his children to hold a paintbrush again, and the young Wang Xueqing's obsession with painting could only be satisfied in the blackboard newspaper at school. There were a lot of things in junior high school, because it was the time of the Cultural Revolution, so I drew a lot of things, painted magazine heads, published blackboard newspapers, and published a big-character poster like that time, but not big-character posters, but some columns, and a lot of them, and in high school, too, in junior high school, I was out of class, and after high school, I was in charge of blackboard newspapers, wall newspapers, etc., and I always liked it, but my family still didn't really want us to continue this thing. After graduating from high school, Wang Xueqing worked as a substitute teacher in middle school, and later went to a jack factory to work as a lathe. In the autumn of 1976, the Gang of Four was crushed, and Wang Xueqing's parents finally agreed to let their son learn to paint. Knowing that the future will be restored in a short period of time, the college entrance examination will resume, at this time from the bottom of my heart a love for art re-emerged, and began to prepare, should be from 1976 to prepare, more than a year, very hard, because I worked as a lathe in the factory, three shifts, so even after work, sleep and get up, at that time, in addition to work, is to prepare for painting, in fact, there is a long time, and some of my original factory friends, or middle school friends have no contact, They don't understand why you didn't come when they asked you to come out to play, or whatever, and they had a goal in mind, that is, they felt that they should be admitted to art schools. In 1977, the door of the college entrance examination was reopened, and 22-year-old Wang Xueqing was admitted to the Department of Arts and Crafts of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. In fact, from the bottom of my heart, I liked pure art and oil painting at the earliest, why did I take the design exam, because the 77th class, the 77th class had a ten-year fault, and then there were 10,000 people in the ten-year fault, and there were 20,000 people to apply for the exam, recruiting more than 50 people. At that time, oil painting was the most popular, that is to say, all the best people in the country would be concentrated in this department, so I wanted to avoid it, I chose to choose, I felt that because of the wall newspaper, the blackboard newspaper, I said that I would choose design, but to be honest, when I was choosing this department, I said in my heart that I went in, I studied for four years, I painted at the same time, and after four years, I took the graduate school entrance examination, the graduate school entrance examination for oil painting, which was very clear.

Three months later, Wang Xueqing completely changed his previous mind and he fell in love with design. I think design is very interesting, pure art, such as oil painting, it may be more of a self-expression, but design is different, design it is actually answering a need, I use my ideas, I use my wisdom, use my ability to help you solve the problem you want to solve, in fact, this is a challenge. Then I think this challenge is even a little more difficult than the completely relaxed and free self-expression, because it has a constraint, so you have to find the best solution between this constraint, and you think this is very challenging, so from your own personality, you like this very much. There are a lot of photos when I was a student, for example, this is more interesting, it is a photo of the New Year's Day theatrical performance in the second year of college, and the idea at that time is how we can be a student who is engaged in art and art design, and how can we use our own wisdom to design such a repertoire well, and the program I thought at that time was called "The Change of Facebook", and I hoped that there would be three photos on it People we are all familiar with, In other words, it is a cartoon of the face of a person familiar to the audience, such as this one, which is actually this classmate, and now he is a back, because his surname is Ma, we call him Potato, and the reason for calling him Potato is also that he has a round head, a little like a potato, and a nose that is upturned, so I chose him. This is myself, I am talking about this thing at this time, it is the next one, you all take a look, we give you a very unexpected surprise, I can guarantee that all the people will know the people on it, because this person has done a lot of work for our students, it is like this, so everyone waits for what is going on, and the result is unveiled, this is not yet painted, we also use the means of design to decorate it, a peel up, white paper, go up, take the pen and ink to paint on the spot, Of course, we have all prepared in advance, and we will not make mistakes, knowing that the drawing must be like, and then as soon as it is drawn, it is one of our teachers and the secretary of the Youth League Committee who was in charge of the students at the time, and he got his cartoon out, and the audience burst into laughter.

In 1982, Wang Xueqing graduated with a bachelor's degree and stayed on to teach, and in 1985, he was awarded a French government scholarship and went to France as a visiting scholar for two years. We had a goal in mind, we wanted to go to the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, because we knew that it was a very important institution in France and even in Europe, and it seemed that no student on the mainland had been allowed to enter this school before we entered this college. As a result, as soon as we arrived in Paris and went to the scholarship agency, he told us that you can go to Marseille today, very unexpectedly, how could we go to Marseille, we filled in the first choice was Paris, and later told us, because at that time we filled in three volunteers, we filled in two, one was the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and the other was the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, who knew that if you filled in two, he would let you go to the second one, because there were too many people in Paris, in order to reduce the burden. Then we felt that we should work hard, and finally came to France, and we should stay in Paris, so we negotiated with the people from the scholarship agency, and he said that we had no way to do this, because the school had no way to accept it, so we asked, if we found a way to communicate with the school, because the school still had a little relationship with us at that time, and if we went to the dean to understand the situation, to see if it was possible to change the situation through our efforts. The wife of the scholarship agency is quite good, she said yes, I will give you a week, about ten days, I said yes, okay, I first settled in Paris very temporarily, and then spent three days to see what we know about Paris, the Louvre, the Pompidou Center, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, Montmartre, all these related to all scans, like this, it is a photo taken in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, Notre Dame Cathedral is too important in our hearts, The whole is a symbol of Paris, it looks very relaxed, we took all the places of interest, in fact, the mood was still a little heavy, we were trying to stay in Paris, in the process of waiting, we thought, maybe we will go to Marseille, but when will we go back to Paris, so we hurry up, with a very complicated mood, especially for the future is very unknown, first of all, we will take the Paris in our minds to find the Paris in our hearts. At this time, Wang Xueqing thought of a senior alumnus and a famous painter in France, Zao Wou-Ki, who happened to be teaching at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Mr. Zao Wou-Ki did us a favor, that is, he contacted the dean, and the dean agreed to meet us in a week, so he went to see the dean, so this dean was very good, because after listening to our statement, he finally took a piece of paper on the spot, as if he had been given a sword of Shang Fang, and wrote on it, this is Wang Xueqing, a teacher from China, and he can pass through any class in our school, that is, please accept that he can come and go anywhere, and he can participate.

After reading the professional introduction of the École Supérieure Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Wang Xueqing chose most of the courses in the Department of Visual Communication. There he met the European graphic design master Jean. Widmaier. Then after you go, you show him this thing and the thing signed by the dean, it is very smooth, and it is easy to be received by them, and then they tell themselves, you are like this, you are a teacher from China, you don't have to do homework like a student, you follow us to show the students, and then you have questions, you bring them up to us, and we often ask you some questions, maybe this is more beneficial to you, say yes yourself. I have been following for about a month, and I think I may not be able to follow it, why, because you only have to do it yourself, you may have a deeper understanding of what it will be like from the design concept to the design method. Professor Widmeier, I said I would love to do it myself, and after I did it, I thought I would understand it better, and he said okay, then we'll see it together after you do it. As soon as I did it at the time, I made a small draft of about such a big size, set up a draft, made a batch, a dozen, ten to twelve, I can't remember clearly, and then I made a measurement of this self first, I think this and this one are pretty good, for the sake of safety, because I went with me and we are also the same school Teacher Song Jianming, and then I ran to him, showed him the things, and said that I wanted him to help me identify what he liked, but in order to say that I know one of his intentions for sure, I didn't tell him which two I liked, he looked at it, this is very good, this is very good, coincidentally, exactly the same, very happy, my choice is still right, two Chinese young teachers, after the Cultural Revolution of the 77th and 78th sessions, should be very sure, the next day with confidence to see the mentor.

Because let. Professor Widmeier was senior after all, he took something, like a playing card, fanned, looked at it, pulled out one, the second, looked at it himself, drew out the two We made a choice, and he was very happy, and then he told himself, these two cards are eliminated first, fainted, hummed, and thought it was impossible. It's what I just said.,The teacher inadvertently selected it in the review process.,I think it should be excluded first.,And for me at the time.,This is a pretty good thing.,In fact, you said that today.,Especially in China.,Many people still think,Hey.,It's okay.,But in fact.、Over time,When you re-examine these things.,Like you look at it again today.,I think it's more outdated.,From the perspective of a concept of the times.,It's more outdated.。 He said to himself that I want you to tell me why, I must understand, and he gave himself two words, one of which was ornamentation, even a little pretentious; And then there's the word for graphics, and he tells himself, "Quite simply, your things are more ornamental, pretentious, and you still want to paint a beautiful story through your work." But what is the function of graphic design, to convey information, and the development of the West to this day, a trend and style of graphic design is a very graphical, what we need is to convey our information simply, clearly and quickly, we don't have time to paint a beautiful story, he said that this is our biggest difference, and this is also a problem that you may need to be very sensitive to pay attention to. After two years of study in France, and with such a good professor, I should say that I have both touched and practiced an opportunity to learn from the concept, or an understanding of new processes and new materials, so these two years should be very important for me.