This UW teacher is a bit interesting, she made the "wine dry" into a work of art

"Craftsmanship", the word was written into the Chinese government's work report, with the two sessions of the red across the country. The "smooth" butchers, skilled Lu Ban, China's thousands of years of history has bred a colorful cultural spirit. Yes, in Quanzhou there is also such a group of people, they like to use their hands to create life, those with texture, with the fingertips can feel things, or with the soul can feel. They are Quanzhou, Fengze, vivid characters, in the big world of their own interpretation of the wonderful, follow I Shang Fengze together into their world, perceive the warmth of those touching ......

The mention of "wine dry", the vast majority of Chinese people first thought of the song that was once sung in the heart of the world, must be the song that was once sung in the heart of the world. The first thing that comes to most Chinese people's mind is the famous pop song "Jiu Gan If You Sell Nothing", which has inspired countless young people in the past, and has been sung in the north and south of the Yangtze River and across the Taiwan Strait. The title of the song means "Do you have any empty bottles for sale? The name of the song means "Do you have any empty bottles for sale?" in Minnan, and the story behind the song is a touching and inspiring one. If this song once gave the "dry wine" inspirational feelings, then today, another Minnan people have given the "dry wine" with a new artistic life.

The first issue of the character interview, this interview is organized by the Fengze District Culture, Sports, Tourism, Press and Publication Bureau "I Shang Fengze" WeChat public platform "the most Minnan the most annual pocket of the top ten cultural and creative tourism products," the award-winning products Aiwu Yige bottle art founder, the team! Instructor - Ms. Yang Aiwu, also a teacher at the College of Fine Arts of Overseas Chinese University, expert member of Quanzhou Creative Industry Association, director of Quanzhou Industrial Design Association.

China has thousands of years of wine culture, but from the very beginning, the value of wine bottles has not only been limited to holding wine, but also has the inner quality of aesthetics. From the rounded shape, simple color and simple pattern of the Stone Age pottery bottles, we can see that the first people on the aesthetic function of the wine vessel. Subsequently, the materials of wine bottles switched continuously between copper, porcelain, iron, and even jade, and the forms of wine bottles were also varied and different. After entering industrial civilization, mass production, as well as mass consumption, greatly diminished the poetic element of the wine bottle. Wine bottles largely became disposable items that were used and thrown away, and no one cared about their existence. It seems that the era of compiling moods and drawing pictures of life on bottles is gone?

In fact, beauty is never far away. Isn't it often said, " life is not a lack of beauty, but a lack of eyes to discover beauty ". The beauty of the wine bottle has been waiting for the pair of eyes to discover it. And Ms. Yang Aiwu, has such a pair of highly sensitive eyes.

Whenever asked why she fell in love with bottle art, Ms. Yang always recalled, " In the Spring Festival of 2008, my husband's brother brought us two bottles of ice wine from Canada, and the bottles were skinny and tall, very beautiful and special, and I've been collecting them all along." "My creation was born from these two bottles that I didn't want to throw away." "Then in a book called Top Eternal Luxury Legends, I read some articles about wine labels, and I was so fascinated by them that I had a sudden idea to create something on the bottles. "At that time, Mr. Yang found a female student who was also interested in the art of painting bottles to work together, "We were doing a castle painting on ice wine bottles, although the skill is not skilled enough, but it is very monumental for me."

I'm afraid it's not by chance that the desire to create art on bottles sprang from a desire for two empty bottles that you couldn't throw away, and that you ventured to put it into practice. You may think that this contains a kind of "waste to treasure", "old bottle reuse" of environmental awareness. This is certainly not wrong. But more than that, it should be out of the aesthetic sensitivity to the natural shape of the bottle, which instantly gave birth to an impulse to create a second life for the bottle. As Mr. Yang said, "When the wine is finished, it is as if the bottle's first life has been exhausted, and our creation is like giving it a second life. "In any case, Mr. Yang found a brand new space for artistic creation and bravely tried it. Since 2009, the bottle art creation has been out of control: from nothing to something, from raw to familiar, from single to rich, from conservative to open.

After 7 years of experience, Ms. Yang led her team of "Aiwu Yige", and finally figured out a route of bottle art creation based on southern Fujian, facing the world, rooted in tradition, and constantly innovating, and now there are nearly 400 pieces of excellent works out. Some of the representative works often appear in the major traditional and new media, and in April 2014, the "Aiwu Yige" bottle art collection exhibition held in the excellent space of Quanzhou Leader SHOW World was the first special exhibition about bottle art in the country, combining the elements of southern Fujian with regional cultural characteristics, such as Quanzhou puppets, Hui'an women, Quanzhou Bay, etc. into a bottle. It has become the first thematic exhibition on bottle art in China. Mr. Yang's bottle art works are often both traditional and modern, global and regional, blending the historical lineage with the spirit of the times, and have multiple values such as economic, social, cultural and artistic.

From the outside, Ms. Yang seems to be particularly fond of crossover. Because art is not her profession, she graduated from Overseas Chinese University majoring in law. Out of personal interest, she studied at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology and the internationally renowned Raffles Fashion School. Ms. Yang's family background seems to have nothing to do with art either. Her father graduated from Xiamen University with a degree in Chemistry, and was a close disciple of the famous physical chemist Mr. Lu Jiaxi; her husband graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a degree in Precision Mechanics, and the rest of the family studied mechanical engineering, accounting and finance. These specialties, which at first glance seem to have nothing to do with art, not only did not affect Ms. Yang's innate love of art, but also provided her with abundant inspiration for her bottle art creations from different sides. For example, she is particularly good at integrating the shape of traditional costumes into the bottle art creation, and can be combined seamlessly.

After setting up her studio team in 2010, Ms. Yang also hired faculty members majoring in chemical engineering or mechanics as special advisors because, not only at the level of thought, but also at the level of reality, the complexity of bottle art creation often touches different disciplines and fields. Therefore, the world's reasoning is originally common, in Mr. Yang, cross-border is not a simple appropriation of technical means, but rather comprehension of the deep spirit of art after the touch of the similar. Mr. Yang said, "Artistic creation is a natural expression of life, a true flow of emotions. "This is to get the idea and forget the words, to get the God and forget the form, the creation of traditional Chinese art concepts, and Mr. Yang's bottle art creation can be said to be an unexpected encounter.

Shi Tao, a painter in the Qing Dynasty, said, "Ink and brush should follow the times", and the same is true for the creation of bottle art, which can not be copied completely from the tradition, but must be integrated into the spirit of the times, and even the regional culture. Mr. Yang's bottle art has consciously integrated the culture of southern Fujian, creating a number of bottle art works with regional cultural characteristics.

For example, "Prickly Tung Red" is based on the city flower of Quanzhou City, Prickly Tung, the red background color is the color of Prickly Tung, which is embellished with green and white cold tones, forming a sharp contrast in color temperature. This work also coincides with the tradition of red color in Minnan folk art. The "Imitation of Puppet Heads in Jiangjiawang" is a classic modeling of Quanzhou puppets transplanted on the bottle painting, forming lively and vivid characters. The Neishang Yanying Shadow" uses strong and passionate color tones to express the dress culture of Hui'an women to the fullest. "In fact, I didn't put much finishing touches on this pair of bottles, just embellishing some buttons and decorations." So says Ms. Yang. Drunken Green Dream, as Mr. Yang's representative work and also a patented work, combines the classical beauty of Dehua blue and white porcelain with the "broken beauty" of modern aesthetics, in which the traditional sentiment of the blue-flowered cloth can be seen vaguely.

"Technique is close to art, and art is close to Tao", and "technique, art, and Tao" constitute three aesthetic realms from the bottom up. From "Bottle Art" to "Bottle Dao" is the natural spiritual aspiration of an artist. Mr. Yang said, "A bottle is a world, and I hope that through our efforts and accumulation, we can raise the bottle art to a higher level, and ultimately become a 'Bottle Dao'". Everything is self-sufficient and complete. A bottle is a world, a small world in a big world, and a microcosm of the big world itself. Therefore, to view the Tao through bottles, to realize the Tao through bottle art, to think about art, to taste life, and to know the world in bottle art is the true spirit of "bottle art". Mr. Yang's Elephant Without Form series can be said to be a rare masterpiece that directly expresses the "Way of the Bottle". The five bottles are slightly deformed to form a series of forms with tension, relaxation, opening and closing, ups and downs, with the cosmic potential of "looking up at the sky and observing the geography".

For bottle art creators, the process of pursuing the "Bottle Road" is not only a process of pursuing excellence in technique, with a view to achieving a state of pure perfection, but also a process of continuous training and polishing of the self, both physically and mentally. For the young bottle art creators, more should shake the spirit, invigorate the will, in strengthening their own bottle art creation level, at the same time, as much as possible to let more people understand the bottle art, learning bottle art, and even join the bottle art creators in the team, the so-called "self-awareness and awareness of other, self-degree and degree of human" is also.

Lao Tzu said, "The use of uselessness is of great use." The bottle art creation of "Aiwu Yige" led by Mr. Yang is not a simple "reuse of old bottles", but in a small bottle, picking up the history, finding the present, and at the same time meeting the future.

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Yang Aiwu, female, Quanzhou, Fujian, graduated from the Law School of Overseas Chinese University, graduated from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Raffles International Fashion Institute. Currently, she is the creative director of Quanzhou Aiwu Yige Culture and Creativity Co., Ltd, the instructor of Aiwu Yige team, bottle artist, director of Quanzhou Industrial Design Association, expert member of Quanzhou Creative Industry Association, and the person in charge of the resource room of Fine Arts College of Overseas Chinese University. His hand-painted bottle art works were selected as "Quanzhou Gifts" list, representative works of "Drunken Green Dream", "Elephant Invisible" No. 1, "Elephant Invisible" No. 2 three works were awarded a national patent.

Liu Xiangdong , a well-known modern artist. In the "Fine Arts", "Poetry Magazine", "Oriental Art" and other magazines published more than two hundred pieces of poetry and painting works, published "New-style art and the Elephant Elephantism", "Film and Television Theory and Creation" and other books more than ten.

Wang Dongsong, art historian, PhD in Philosophy of Art from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master's tutor at the School of Fine Arts of Overseas Chinese University, and special researcher at Jiangsu Polytechnic Institute, has published dozens of academic papers in core journals such as Fine Arts Research, Decoration, Fine Arts and Design, and History and Forestry, and has translated an academic monograph, Manet's Modernism.

Note: Mr. Yang's "Bottle Art" is a kind of summoning, and a kind of demand, is a kind of creation, and a kind of perseverance. It is like a small flower blooming on the cliffside, with its back to the continent and its face to the ocean, singing in the wind and dancing to the sun, with a vigorous life and brilliant dreams. As Mr. Yang said, "If they can withstand the wash of history, these bottle arts can undoubtedly become a bright landscape in the art sky for future generations!" This is also the future we *** with the expectation!

(Article written in 2016, pictures are from Aiwu Yige)