Huang Xiaoming's personality characteristics

16 years old, engaged in artistic sculpture, studied under Mr. Feng, an Asia-Pacific arts and crafts artist. Learning theory while practicing, Huang Xiaoming deeply felt the importance of theoretical knowledge training, so he was admitted to Zhejiang Arts and Crafts School (predecessor of China Academy of Art) and worked as a teacher in Dongyang Woodcarving Factory. He combined theory with practical creation, integrating photography, painting, composition, color, sculpture and other skills, and obtained an EMBA master's degree from Fudan University in July 20 13.

20 12 10, 165438 was awarded the honorary title of master of arts and crafts in China, which was evaluated by eight ministries and commissions, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Human Resources and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and was highly recognized by Huang Xiaoming's exquisite craftsmanship.

In the process of artistic creation for more than 30 years, Master Huang Xiaoming has taught hundreds of students through entertaining.

Innovation, Inheritance and Cross-border Integration

As a representative of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic in Dongyang woodcarving field, Huang Xiaoming combined the successful experience of his predecessors with the passion of his younger generation, and formed a rich but fresh and ethereal creative style, becoming a pioneer and a cutting-edge figure in Dongyang woodcarving modern creativity.

In woodcarving creation: seek self-breakthrough and transcendence, summarize the uniqueness of Dongyang woodcarving from traditional crafts, and examine, excavate, discover and show the individuality of Dongyang woodcarving from a unique perspective. The creative concept has been improved again and again, and it has been continuously improved, thus integrating the traditional woodcarving with the characteristics of the times. So as to achieve originality and a major breakthrough in design concept.

In artistic creation: broaden one's horizons, enrich one's life experience, and adopt diversification in creative themes. Inspired by creative inspiration, some geometric patterns, cultural relics modeling, famous paintings handed down from ancient times, ethnic minorities, Buddhism, Catholicism and Christianity were introduced into the field of Dongyang woodcarving creation through symbolic and moral means. Seeking the freehand brushwork of Chinese painting and the craft of woodcarving, and making bold attempts have greatly enriched the content of Dongyang woodcarving, and the scope of expression has also become broader.

In terms of artistic characteristics: boldly try to create multi-layer carving expression techniques, and try to comprehensively use various techniques such as shallow relief, deep relief, hollow carving, semi-circular carving and round carving, ranging from two layers to seven layers; Create a new variety of woodcarving sketches, and combine the sketching techniques in art theory with Dongyang woodcarving, so that the picture looks elegant, flexible and highly decorative. He combined painting and sculpture, and combined the freehand brushwork of woodcarving with concrete sketch. After repeated attempts, the best combination of the two was finally found, and the painting language and carving language were combined to achieve the natural unity of painting and carving.

His original "ultra-realistic woodcarving" enhances the three-dimensional sense of modeling with delicate and realistic textures, and realizes the integration of China woodcarving and western woodcarving, which is very modern; The "Bamboo Slip Woodcarving" and "Landscape Frame Woodcarving" designed by him have enriched the expression form and decoration scope of Dongyang woodcarving, and displayed the humanistic temperament and classical situation of Dongyang woodcarving. Bao Yue Golden Lotus, designed by him, adopts a variety of material combination techniques, takes lotus cultivation in a water tank as a landscaping technique, integrates three-dimensional round carving and plane relief, and combines the sculpture language to completely peel off the traditional wood carving form, thus creating a new realm of Dongyang wood carving three-dimensional sculpture.

Huang Xiaoming's woodcarving creation is reflected in the breakthrough of seeking differences in ideas. He believes that if we stay on inheriting the traditional craft of Dongyang woodcarving, it will be impossible for Dongyang woodcarving to break through the box, let alone innovate and develop. Innovating Dongyang woodcarving art requires not only a lot of knowledge and skills accumulation, but also enough courage and brand-new ideas. To this end, he tried to seek self-breakthrough and transcendence, summed up the uniqueness of Dongyang woodcarving from traditional crafts, and examined, excavated, discovered and displayed the personality of Dongyang woodcarving from a unique perspective. Although Dongyang woodcarving is a "reduction of characters", its artistic effect and social value are quite different due to the difference of "reduction". Only when Dongyang woodcarving is integrated into modern style and combined with today's fashion can it have vitality and vitality, and it can show strong vitality. He has been an artist for more than 30 years, and his creative ideas have been perfected again and again, integrating traditional wood carving with the characteristics of the times. This is not only his success in creating one piece of works and managing enterprises, but also his originality and great breakthrough in design concept. The success of his career stems from his innovative idea, which determines behavior and behavior determines the result. In Huang Xiaoming's eyes, woodcarving is not only a work of art, but also an important carrier to show his thoughts and views on society and life, and a reflection of his life value.

Huang Xiaoming's artistic creation is reflected in the diversity of themes in his creative content. Dongyang woodcarving began in the Tang Dynasty and reached the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. It is rich in materials and content. Landscape figures, birds and beasts, emperors and generals, classical literature, myths and legends, opera and folk art, etc. , can be painted, basically can be represented by wood carving.

Since the reform and opening up, with the acceleration of urban construction and the change of modern people's life concept, there is an urgent need for performance content with the characteristics of the times. However, it is difficult to make a breakthrough in the creation content of Dongyang woodcarving, which is greatly restricted and bound in expressing today's fashion, modern city and brand-new views. He constantly absorbs the nourishment of creation, obtains a lot of knowledge from a large number of newspapers, television, internet and other media, and constantly enriches his creative content.

At the same time, he took advantage of all available opportunities to travel to famous mountains and rivers, covering the Great Wall and the north and south of the river. He took pictures of everything that could be photographed with a camera; If you can sketch, draw one by one. After a trip to Tibet and Xinjiang, he actually published a photo album of his trip to the plateau. This rich experience greatly broadened his horizons and inspired his creative inspiration.

Therefore, he introduced some geometric patterns, cultural relics, famous paintings handed down from ancient times, ethnic minorities, Buddhism, Catholicism and Christianity into the field of Dongyang woodcarving creation. For example, after traveling to Yunnan, I was suddenly attracted by the beautiful natural scenery of Xishuangbanna tropical rain forest and was greatly inspired. He improvised works such as Return to Nature, Yunnan Impression, The Rise of Cui Ying, Natural Scenery, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. When he came back, he paid immediately. The rain forest covers the sky, the air roots hang down, the elephants play and the bamboo buildings are hidden, which shows the leisure and self-satisfaction of the Dai people's integration with nature. These works were later decorated in Kunming Cuihu Hotel, Yunnan Tobacco Company office building and other places, which was refreshing and full of praise.

The diversification of Huang Xiaoming's woodcarving theme is not only reflected in the modern theme, but also reflected in the infiltration with modern painting. Traditional Chinese painting is a form of pen and ink, and wood carving is a highly technical art, which is quite different. Huang Xiaoming made a bold attempt to seek the freehand brushwork of Chinese painting and the craft of woodcarving. Finally, the famous painter Song's traditional Chinese painting "Kowloon Map" was successfully created into a large-scale woodcarving wall hanging, and won the silver prize in the 6th China Arts and Crafts Master Works and Crafts Expo. This creation has greatly enriched the content of Dongyang woodcarving and broadened its scope of expression.

Huang Xiaoming's artistic feature lies in his inheritance and innovation of woodcarving techniques. He boldly tried to create multi-level carving expressions and created a new variety of woodcarving sketches. Dongyang woodcarving has long had the problem of cracking after splicing. This is because, on the one hand, woodcarving works have a large area, so it is impossible to carve with a whole piece of wood, and it needs to be spliced with multiple pieces of wood; On the other hand, if the work is installed in the north, the climate is dry and it will shrink obviously after a long time, so the overall effect is not ideal. To this end, many woodcarvers have made many attempts in this regard and failed. In order to solve this problem, Huang Xiaoming and his "New Dongyang Wood Carving" artists made bold innovations as early as five years ago, trying to comprehensively use various techniques such as shallow relief, deep relief, hollow carving, semi-circular carving and round carving, ranging from two layers to at most seven layers.

When they created the large-scale woodcarving screen "Nine Old Pictures of Xiangshan", they began to try carving in blocks, leaving a certain shrinkage space. After the completion of carving, Huang Xiaoming installed them on the same plane according to the overall design, paying attention to the harmony of color and content, with a sense of rhythm and rhythm, thus forming a multi-level picture from near to far, from high to low, and achieving elegant, solemn, simple and generous artistic effects. As soon as this overlapping carving expression technique came out, it was appreciated and widely used by many experts. The "Sketch Wood Carving" initiated by him combines the sketching techniques in art theory with Dongyang wood carving, making the picture look elegant, agile and highly decorative. He combined painting and sculpture, and combined the freehand brushwork of woodcarving with concrete sketch. After repeated attempts, the best combination of the two was finally found, and the painting language and carving language were combined to achieve the natural unity of painting and carving. His series of woodcarving sketches, such as "Jiangnan Water Town", which reflects the ancient towns and ethnic customs in the south of the Yangtze River, were deeply loved by people as soon as they came out, and the demand was in short supply. His original "ultra-realistic woodcarving" enhances the three-dimensional sense of modeling with delicate and realistic textures, and realizes the integration of China woodcarving and western woodcarving, which is very modern. The "Bamboo Slip Woodcarving" and "Frame Woodcarving" designed by him have enriched the expression form and decoration scope of Dongyang woodcarving, and displayed the humanistic temperament and classical situation of Dongyang woodcarving. More than 30 national and 40 provincial gold and silver awards are the best annotations of his outstanding woodcarving creativity.

Huang Xiaoming's artistic achievements are also manifested in the expansion and promotion of woodcarving decoration. It took him two years to copy the Qianlong throne of the Forbidden City in Beijing, which integrates the art of carving, wood and lacquer, and is consistent with the original in form, material, art and rhyme. It was praised by experts in the Palace Museum as "a landmark masterpiece in the history of Dongyang woodcarving".

The interior decoration project of Dayuan Cultural Park in Jiuhuashan, Anhui Province, which was designed by him, used various woodcarving languages to elaborate the Dayuan culture of Tibetan Bodhisattva subtly, and combined the solemn beauty of the Buddhist country with the elegance of the mortal world. It was called "singing in Sanskrit with a carving knife" and was a model of modern design among the four famous Buddhist mountains in China. He presided over the design of Beijing Hotel Decoration, Hangzhou Leifeng Tower Large-scale Wall Hanging, Kunming Cuihu Hotel Decoration and other large-scale projects. Simplicity contains fashion, luxury contains simplicity, and practicality contains aesthetics. Its changeable and agile style, or Leng Yan, or people-friendly, creates a soft environment full of humanistic atmosphere, which is integrated with the whole decoration space and is highly respected by countless people.

Talking and laughing, approachable.

Huang Xiaoming in life is approachable and loves to laugh. Rich life experience, he knows how to practice "unity of knowledge and action" and is humorous and elegant. He can find another way in his persistent pursuit of art and seek the unity of artistic inspiration and soul.

Huang Xiaoming's elaborate sketches and woodcarvings for his family are the embodiment of this whole-hearted life. He not only stems from a love for his family, but also the highest interpretation and the most incisive expression of the highest realm of art-"Art comes from life above life".

Preach, teach and educate new people.

Master Huang Xiaoming, who respects teachers and cultivates new people carefully, has never stopped after becoming the youngest master of arts and crafts in China. He personally taught skills, especially in training young people. It's not hard to see the good intentions of Master Huang Xiaoming from the surging young figure in the New Dongyang Wood Carving Factory.

As the latest young master, Huang Xiaoming pays great attention to the cultivation of the younger generation, attaches great importance to the best among them, and guides them to make greater achievements.

Wu, who won the first prize of Xiuguang Group in the city woodcarving skill competition after only four years of study, is shy but has persistent and artistic talent for art; Xu Liang, a graduate of Guangsha College, has pigtails, personality and artistic skills; Inheriting Huang Xiaoming's unconventional and bold breakthrough, Liu Hai, a man from Inner Mongolia, brought a unique creative midnight wandering in the 20 14 Dongyang woodcarving training class for high-skilled talents ... and these are just a part of the new Dongyang woodcarving by Huang Xiaoming.

Kunyi's masterpieces have been handed down from generation to generation.

From the age of 16, Master Huang Xiaoming began to learn Dongyang woodcarving from famous teachers, and mastered dozens of carving techniques such as thin relief, deep carving, round carving, cone carving, relief, hollow carving, half-cone carving, three-sided carving and round carving, and formed a complete set of production techniques.

At the same time, I have been committed to experiencing the profound cultural feelings behind the artistic elements of traditional woodcarving, traveling all over the motherland, seriously investigating and studying the history and culture of China for thousands of years, constantly drawing cultural elements from it, and combining my own feelings, applying them to all works, which is full of the keen artistic sense, vitality and innovative spirit of modern young people.

Many works have been published in China Arts and Crafts Collection, China Woodcarving Collection, the 2nd Zhejiang Arts and Crafts Collection and China National Arts and Crafts Collection 1-4, etc. In national journals such as Sculpture, he published papers such as Comprehensive Application of Traditional Woodcarving Techniques and Modern Concepts in Dongyang, Perfect Combination of Chinese Painting and Woodcarving, New Thinking of Wall Hanging Techniques, and Development of New Woodcarving Techniques and Products in Dongyang.

After more than 30 years of practice, he has accumulated rich creative experience and made great breakthroughs in the creation and production of his works. Each work incorporates unique ideas and concepts, thus forming a unique artistic style and characteristics. At the same time, we have made great efforts and gained a lot. Over the years, he has published Huang Xiaoming Sculpture Collection, Huang Xiaoming Woodcarving, Qianlong Throne, Huang Xiaoming Interior Decoration, Huang Xiaoming Sketch and other works. Moreover, my photography portfolio includes A Journey to the Plateau, and I have published many papers in national and provincial newspapers. Among them, The Application of Dongyang Woodcarving in Modern Decoration, Creative Woodcarving New Dongyang, The Copy Technology of Qianlong's Throne, The Comprehensive Application of Traditional Woodcarving Technology and Modern Ideas in Dongyang, The Perfect Combination of Chinese Painting and Woodcarving, The New Thinking of Wall Hanging Technology, etc. were published in national authoritative journals such as Sculpture and Zhejiang Arts and Crafts Newspaper.