Famous works of Yangzhou embroidery

The biggest feature of Yangzhou embroidery is "embroidery painting and calligraphy", which is called embroidery painting, and the biggest artistic feature is "ink writing show". The picture below, the original painting for the Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji painted, Yangzhou embroidery in the original painting on the basis of the "needle instead of pen, line instead of ink", through Yangzhou embroidery exquisite silk splitting skills, to achieve the ink in five colors of the realm of the superb, based on the secondary creation, not only to reproduce the charm of the original paintings, but also to experience the unique charm of the art of embroidery.

Yangzhou Embroidery Zhu Zhanji Lianpu Pine Shade (Tianyifang)

Yangzhou painting embroidery is a transitional form between painting and embroidery, and not all of the paintings can be formalized into practical embroidery. For the original drawing, the designers must seize the outstanding features of the picture, take some of them and delete them, and add some embellishments where the sparseness and density are not quite proportionate, so that the drawing can be adapted into a form that is easy to embroider. This is a women's red skills to the art of creating an important level, not sloppy. Compared with practical embroidery, Yangzhou painting embroidery requires a higher level of artistic training from the embroiderer. Both the designer and the embroiderer need to have a solid foundation in modeling and coloring, as well as a good understanding of painting theory and perfect embroidery skills. Some contemporary embroiderers are able to integrate their own art skills into their embroidery, using needles instead of brushes and embroidery as painting.

After the founding of New China, Yangzhou Embroidery Factory was established in 1959. Hand-embroidered fine resumed production, the embroidery genre is mainly Song, Yuan and Qing Dynasty craft brush landscapes, birds and flowers, Yangzhou Eight Monsters works as a model, as well as embroidery of modern masterpieces. At present, Yangzhou Embroidery Factory after several restructuring, has been transformed into Yangzhou Embroidery Institute.

Yangzhou Embroidery Institute of fine embroidery Liu Danzhu's "Tang Dynasty bowing", "Tai Bai drunkenness", "Penglai Immortal Realm", etc. In 1978, Yangzhou Embroidery works Li Kuchan's "Fish Eagle", Qian Songyan's "Zao Yuan Dawn", Song Wenzhi's "Mount Lushan New Dress", etc. selected for the National Craft and Beauty Exhibition. 1999, Yangzhou Embroidery Factory disbanded its workshop of hand-embroidered fine embroidery. At this time, into the Yangzhou Folk Art Museum of embroidery artists to concentrate on embroidery, self-improvement, over a period of two years, embroidered into a large floor-to-ceiling antique landscape double-sided embroidery "Penglai Fairyland". The embroidery author skillfully used a variety of needlework, the best expression of the Chinese painting of the dashing and handsome ink and ink charm, delicate and rigorous, simple and godly, Yang embroidery technology level to a new stage, such as embroidery vista with a thread of only forty-eight percent of a silk. This work was selected to be exhibited at the Century Forum in Beijing in 2002, which was the "Jiangsu Provincial Cultural and Artistic Excellence Exhibition". Antique landscape double-sided embroidery "Huayue Gaoqiu", "Trestle Road" was selected for exhibition in Taiwan, Jiangsu Province master works and was awarded the certificate of excellence issued by the Provincial Department of Light Industry, embroidery "Huayue Gaoqiu" was also awarded the Sixth National Arts Festival "newcomers and new works" award. 2002 embroidery works "Double Fish", "Xishi Rumsha," "Traveling", "Lotus Pond View" and other eight pieces of work "Double Fish", "Xishi Wansha," "Traveling" and "Lotus Pond View". Lotus Pond View" and other 8 pieces of work to participate in the Shanghai National Embroidery Art Fair, Yangzhou embroidery has won the honor and status.

Besides Yangzhou Embroidery Research Institute, Wu Xiaoping's master studio, Tianyifang and Wei Fang's master studio are also the backbone of Yangzhou embroidery inheritance unit, creating a large number of Yangzhou embroidery masterpieces, such as Wu Xiaoping's master studio's "Cloud Shuffle Wave Scroll," Tianyifang's "Mountains far away, River Wide," "Magnolia Scroll," and "Lotus Pond Pine Shade," and so on.

Yangzhou Embroidery Wen Zhengming Yulan Scroll (Tianyifang)