The picture shows Yin Shouxian drawing. Photo by Qu Honglun
Zhongxin Network Guizhou Zunyi August 16 Title: Guizhou Septuagenarian Old Lady Rags "Interpretation" Relief Art
Author Pu Wensi Qu Honglun
The paintings in front of me, the three-dimensional and realistic features of the characters, the branches and leaves of the plants are ready to come out, and the feathers on the birds and birds are vivid and vivid, which is really amazing... It is hard to imagine that these realistic three-dimensional, relief-like paintings were made of rags, all by an old man in his seventies.
Yin Shouxian's Peking Opera fabric embroidery works.
Yin Shouxian, a retired employee of Zunyi Xinpu New District, Guizhou, is a halfway monk fabric embroiderer, who boldly innovates on the basis of traditional fabric pile embroidery paintings, integrates the embroidery technique with some of the crafts of silk sculpture, vividly and three-dimensionally reproduces landscapes, flowers, birds, insects, fish and figure paintings, and interprets the "relief art" on rags. The reporter recently came to the home of Yin Shouxian's old man to visit the story behind his creation.
The picture shows Yin Shouxian introducing the zodiac cow work she made. Photo by Qu Honglun
Walking into the home of the old man Yin Shouxian, Meilan Zhuju, Crane Newspaper Peace, Zodiac Signs... From the living room to the bedroom, the walls are full of her fabric embroidery paintings, and Yin Shouxian is working in front of the balcony window to create new works. Scissors, tweezers, fluffy cotton, viscose and various pieces of cloth are placed on the table, which are the tools for her daily creation of fabric pile embroidery.
The picture shows Yin Shouxian comparing the cropped pattern with the original picture. Photo by Qu Honglun
"This year is the Year of the Ox, I am going to make a "Five Bull Diagram", which is our famous painting in China and a national treasure of our country, and I want to use the fabric pile embroidery technique to show the "Five Bull Diagram"." Yin Shouxian introduced it to reporters while making it. Only to see her use copy paper to copy out the "one cow" in the "Five Cow Diagram", and then use scissors to decompose the body pattern of the cow, and number it, and then paste the decomposed pattern with fluffy cotton and anchovy yarn, and wrap the edges carefully with forceps... After repeated trimming, she combines the finished pieces of cloth, and the three-dimensional "semi-finished" cow body appears in front of her.
The picture shows Yin Shouxian inspecting the fabric pile embroidery works in the living room of his home. Photo by Qu Honglun
Fabric pile embroidery painting is to use cloth to make paintings, it is a traditional folk craft handed down in ancient China to the present, its exquisite workmanship, rich colors, strong three-dimensional sense, is a decoration of the living room, gifts to relatives and friends of the good products. Yin Shouxian introduced that the fabric pile embroidery is mainly based on pile stickers, supplemented by embroidery, from material selection, drawing, production to assembly and molding, to go through hundreds of processes, a complete work to nearly a month or even several months to complete.
The picture shows the fabric embroidery work of "Crane Newspaper Peace" created by Yin Shouxian. Photo by Qu Honglun
"Fabric embroidery seems simple, it is not easy to do, it is difficult to make only one drawing as a reference, the rest need to be conceived and created by themselves." Speaking of color matching, Yin Shouxian took the embroidery metaphor: "I have not learned embroidery, I must first match the thread, the fabric embroidery is the same, and the color matching is the most critical." For example, the green of the leaves, not to say that the stagnant water is all used in a green cloth, it needs to use a deep, light, light green of various gradient colors, but also depends on which part you place, highlighting the layers. If your color is not matched, then the finished product you make is not vivid, flexible or good-looking. ”
The picture shows the detailed diagram of the crane created by Yin Shouxian. Photo by Qu Honglun
In addition to paying attention to color collocation, fabric embroidery also has a difficult point is simulation, in Yin Shouxian's view, in addition to the selection of fabric materials, the creator's aesthetic and understanding is also very important. Especially when creating works of historical figures, in order to realistically reproduce the facial features of the characters and highlight the temperament and charm of the characters, Yin Shouxian often collects style on the ground, deeply understands the character stories and repeatedly studies the physical modeling. "For example, I made the work "Li Shuchang", Li Shuchang was born in the Qing Dynasty, and he was an ambassador, so he could not use the usual native cloth to shape him, he had to use satin cloth, not only in line with his identity, but also in line with the background at that time, which is not something that can be done with any material." Yin Shouxian laughed and said, this is also what everyone often says, to see if you have "art cells", the level of appreciation is not high.
The picture shows the character work "Li Shuchang" created by Yin Shouxian. Photo by Pu Wensi
Since his retirement, Yin Shouxian has been immersed in the study and creation of fabric embroidery paintings. To date, she has created nearly 100 works, many of which are collected by local exhibition halls and museums. In 2014, her red-themed work "Zunyi Conference" was collected by the Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall. Today, Yin Shouxian, who is in her seventies, teaches at a local university for the elderly, specializing in teaching fabric embroidery, and she intends to pass on this craft, and at the same time, she also hopes that fabric embroidery can bloom in the hands of young people.
The picture shows the semi-finished product of "Five Bull Diagram" created by Yin Shouxian. Photo by Pu Wensi
To Yin Shouxian's relief, several of her grandchildren were happy to follow her. "I have a granddaughter who loves fabric embroidery, and she was admitted to college this year to major in fine arts. Because I had not studied art myself and lacked some art expertise, I wanted to teach her some of the techniques I had innovated in fabric embroidery. She is young and cultured, and after being trained by the national higher education, she can also better improve the craft of fabric embroidery and make it a higher level. (End)
Source: China News Network