Xie Yuyao character introduction

Xie Yuyao

Xie Yuyao, born in April 1958, is from Louxing District, Loudi City, Hunan Province. He is a part-time professor at Xiaoxiang Vocational College and a distinguished senior researcher at the Central Plains Academy of Fine Arts. He has loved art since childhood. . Professional pyrographer.

Chinese name: Xie Yuyao

Birthplace: Louxing District, Loudi City, Hunan Province

Date of birth: April 1958

Occupation : Pyrography painter

Main achievements: Part-time professor at Xiaoxiang Vocational College, Distinguished Senior Researcher at the Central Plains Academy of Fine Arts

Representative work: "Mountain Dwelling"

Introduction

Xie Yuyao is a native of Loudi and has been fond of calligraphy and painting since he was a child. Because his family was poor, he didn't have paper and pen to draw, so he used lime blocks, charcoal and other things to practice casually. Over time, he was able to draw decently. In 1985, 22-year-old Xie Yuyao joined the army and joined the army. He came into use in the army. Because he was good at drawing, he took over all the company's blackboard newspapers and all the writing and drawing matters. After he was demobilized and returned home in 1992, he still had no fixed job, so he had to go to some construction sites to work as a laborer, carrying soil and breaking rocks. But no matter how hard life is, he still insists on painting every night. It was by virtue of his perseverance that he became more and more sophisticated in his painting skills.

At the end of the 20th century, an experiment made him obsessed with the art of pyrography. He used the unique artistic brush of iron and fire to touch rice paper for the first time, showing us pieces of artistic charm with ease. He was hailed as a "pyrography wizard" from all walks of life and became a professional pyrography artist. Yan Zhentang, president of the China Collectors Association, inscribed his work: "Drunken Art". Former vice president of Xinhua News Agency, secretary of the Secretariat of the China Journalists Association, calligrapher Li Pu, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and chairman of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhu Xunde, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Artists Association, and Nie Nan, former dean of the Art College of Hunan Normal University Xi and other celebrities in the literary and art circles spoke highly of his pyrography art. The portrait of Qi Baishi he made is collected by Qi Baishi Memorial Hall in Xiangtan City. There are also a large number of paintings collected by international friends from the United States, Germany, Britain, France and other countries as well as domestic collectors. More than 10 news media including People's Daily, Hunan Daily, Loudi Daily and provincial and municipal TV stations have reported on him many times. In early 2006, the Loudi Municipal People's Government held an exhibition of his pyrography works for him, and later submitted his rice paper pyrography art to the Intangible Cultural Heritage List and reported it to the Provincial People's Government. In the summer of 2006, China's "International Business News" invited him to hold a pyrography exhibition at Beijing's Guomao Building. Since 2007, Hunan Art Players, Sichuan Gujin Tongbao and many other auction companies have auctioned his works, with prices reaching more than 2,000 yuan per square foot. The successful exhibition and auction proved that he is about to become a powerful painter with great potential for appreciation.

Character Achievements

Xie Yuyao’s pyrography was a success! Everyone who has seen his paintings is impressed by his superb skills. Tan Tan, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and chairman of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, admired this innovative technique. He took a photo with Xie Yuyao and encouraged him. Mr. Huang Dingchu, director of the Hunan Provincial Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute, gave an inscription: "Mr. Yuyao's pyrography art is unique, unique, valuable, and valuable." Loudi TV, Hunan Economic TV, Hunan Daily and other media have reported on it. .

Once, Mr. Xie Yuyao went to Guangzhou for business and brought some pyrography with him. The owner of a Sino-foreign joint venture couldn't put it down after seeing it, so he bought them all. Soon, these pyrography paintings were snapped up for collection in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong and Macao, and the boss made a fortune.

Today, Xie Yuyao is concentrating on creating pyrography at home. He kept silent about the achievements he had made, and only said that he still had to study the traditional Chinese painting tradition, go deep into life, create carefully, and strive to make better works in the future.

Pyrography is a new type of painting that has emerged in recent years. It is a bit like printmaking, but more delicate and vivid than printmaking. It is also like Chinese painting, but more elegant and simple than Chinese painting. It uses a soldering iron to grill lines on a flat piece of plywood, and the degree of grilling highlights the light and dark to create a picture.

Because pyrography is different from general art creation, it not only requires the foundation and skills of general art creation, but also requires the author's mastery and usage skills of an electric soldering iron. Therefore, pyrography is not very popular and cannot be seen in many places. Loudi in central Hunan has only seen its elegance in the past two years, and its author is actually an unknown figure. His name is Xie Yuyao.

He was once the manager of a labor service company. After the company went bankrupt in 1994, he became a member of the laid-off army. After being laid off, he used a soldering iron to practice pyrography on wooden boards and rice paper in an extremely difficult life. After more than ten years of hard work, he finally stood out in the art field of pyrography. Today, his pyrography works are exported to dozens of countries such as the United States, Germany, Britain, and France at high prices.

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He was laid off at the age of 40

Xie Yuyao, 53, was born in Shijing Township, Louxing District, Loudi City. Xie Yuyao's second brother is a rural painter who is good at painting flowers, birds, fish and insects. Influenced by his second brother, Xie Yuyao became obsessed with painting since he was a child.

Pyrography works fly to the world

After several years of continuous training in a small wooden shed on the roof, Xie Yuyao's pyrography skills have become increasingly sophisticated, and he has stood out in the art field of pyrography.

In 2001, a friend of Xie Yuyao bought a spacious house. After the overall renovation of the house, the friend always felt that something was missing. After Xie Yuyao learned about it, he volunteered and said, "Let me help you bake a painting!" The friend was shocked after hearing this, but finally decided to let him try it.

After accepting the order, Xie Yuyao thought hard about how to compose the picture. A week later, a "Mountain Dwelling Picture" with a length of 2.44 meters and a width of 1.2 meters was born under his soldering iron. In the picture, there are small bridges, flowing water, pavilions, flowers, plants and birds. After watching it, people feel as if they have entered a fresh and refined paradise. His friend was stunned when he saw this painting "burned" with a soldering iron. He immediately hung it in the living room of his new house for people from all walks of life to appreciate, and it won everyone's praise.

Since then, Xie Yuyao’s reputation as a “pyrography geek” has slowly spread. After seeing Xie Yuyao's pyrography works, several foreign experts from Lianyuan Iron and Steel Group Company came to place orders one after another. In view of the inconvenience of carrying pyrography on wooden boards, Xie Yuyao learned to pyrograph on rice paper through trial and error.

In March 2006, Xie Yuyao was invited to participate in the "13th Beijing International Gifts, Crafts, Calligraphy and Painting Fair" organized by the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing. At this trade fair, he received warm reception and inscriptions of encouragement from 26 celebrities including Yan Zhentang, President of the China Collectors Association. In order to bring Xie Yuyao's pyrography works to the world, "China Business Daily" sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce has promoted his pyrography works for free to commercial websites in six countries including Australia and Canada. Today, Xie Yuyao often receives orders from dozens of countries including the United States, Germany, and France.

Experience

I have been in love with painting since I was a child

Mr. He's passed, his beard is combed to make it shiny and shiny, and he looks like an artist.

Mr. Xie Yuyao is engaged in art, but he has never received formal art education. His artistic life was entirely based on his extraordinary artistic talent and persistent pursuit of art, as well as his amazing perseverance in self-study, self-improvement, and self-study. Xie Yuyao was born in a relatively remote mountain village in Shijing Township, Loudi City, Hunan Province. He is the seventh eldest of eight brothers and sisters in his family. In August 1967, his father, who was burdened with a heavy family burden, became ill due to overwork and finally collapsed silently. He was only 9 years old that year. The children of the poor have long been in charge of the family. Having lost his father at a young age, he has become a partner with hardship and suffering prematurely. When he was studying in primary school and middle school, he had to herd cattle, pick up rags and wild dung for the production team. He worked as a small laborer in exchange for work points to supplement his family's income. Through this difficult life experience, he developed his perseverance and indomitable spirit.

Because of his leadership's high regard for him, Xie Yuyao grew from a farmer who loved painting to a state-owned enterprise cadre who was fed by the emperor. Xie Yuyao also lived up to the expectations of his leaders and made the company prosperous. After one year, due to his outstanding work performance, in 1995, he was named one of the top ten advanced enterprise representatives in Loudi City.

However, life always plays tricks on people. With the wave of reform and opening up and the further development of market economy, competition among all walks of life has also intensified. Xie Yuyao's decoration company has gradually moved towards losses. Soon, the Coal Bureau Labor Service Company where he worked also declared bankruptcy. Faced with this sudden change, Xie Yuyao felt at a loss. At that time, he was already a father of three children. He spent a lot of money to buy a house in the city a year ago, and the family's finances were simply overwhelmed. Forced to have no choice, he had no choice but to go south to Guangdong to work. In a decoration company in Guangdong, there was a boss who admired his painting talent very much at first. Later, when he saw that he was nearly forty years old and slightly put on, he thought he was here to "steal from classics and learn skills", so he He politely declined and dismissed him. Later, he looked for several companies, but in the end he was unable to do so because of his age. Xie Yuyao had to return to Loudi, the hometown where he was born and raised, with great loss and regret.

Research in a small attic

With nothing to do, he often feels great pressure in life, but who can guarantee that flowers will bloom all the time and that a person will be good for a thousand days?

The shining point of life is always in inadvertent discovery and deep exploration. Xie Yuyao, who was idle at home, once went to an electrical appliance store to repair a TV. Unintentionally, he suddenly discovered that the master of the repair shop put a soldering iron on a wooden pad and made many circles. The pattern looks like galloping horses on the grassland and dots of white sails on the lake from a distance, which makes people think of it. Xie Yuyao's heart suddenly moved and he was very happy, "Isn't this the pyrography in our country's art garden? It's true that the flowers are deliberately planted without blooming, and the willows are planted unintentionally to create shade. Can I just use a soldering iron to paint and carry forward the painting?" What about this artistic wonder that has existed in our country since ancient times?" While still in the repair shop, Xie Yuyao began to think about pyrography.

Because of his passion for art, Xie Yuyao has long known that in the early Western Han Dynasty, there was a traditional folk craft painting called "Fire Needle Embroidery". At that time, people liked to use red-hot iron wire to embroider on wooden boards. Various patterns are ironed out on , bark, gourds, and bamboo pieces for decoration. Therefore, people often call this craft "iron art." This hot stamping technique was first called pyrography and later pyrography. It is an extremely precious and rare type of painting in ancient my country. The ironing works have a natural appearance, and with their unique artistic form, ingenious expression techniques and uneven texture changes, they have a certain relief effect and have become a bright and wonderful flower in the art world. Its color is dark, light brown or even black, which is unique. The works have the characteristics of not regaining moisture, discoloration, wrinkles and mildew, etc., and are very popular among the public. It was very popular during the Eastern Han Dynasty, but was lost for a time due to successive years of famine and war. By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there was an old monk in Siming Mountain, Zhejiang who often used incense to paint on paper. It was called "incense painting", which was a leap forward in developing the ancient ironing technique onto paper. In the third year of Guangxu's reign, a folk artist named Zhao Xing rediscovered and organized it, thus developing this ancient craft that was only spread among the people. In modern times, it gradually formed a craft represented by Henan, Hebei, Suzhou, Tianjin and other places. Several major schools. In the Qing Dynasty, some people called it "fire-stroke painting", while in modern times, some people often call it "heat transfer" or "pyrography". But Xie Yuyao has always only heard of his name, but has no chance to learn from him. Today he got enlightenment by chance, and he had a profound understanding. Xie Yuyao repaired the TV, moved it home, and immediately went to the street again, bought a soldering iron and a plywood, and started experimenting on the plywood. Using a soldering iron as a pen seems easy, but it is not that simple in practice. In the past, the ironing technique was to use red-hot iron wire to solder on wooden boards and bamboo blocks. When the red-hot iron wire is taken out, it is easy to get cold and the firepower is not strong. But today's soldering irons , the high temperature can reach hundreds of degrees: if the force is too large or too small, the desired effect will not be achieved. If you are not careful, it will be burned and become "ink spots".

Pyrography does not require any pigments. To examine a pyrography artist's skill in pyrography mainly depends on his mastery of the combination and transition of deep and light colors. Pyrography should not be modified, especially painting on silk and rice paper, which requires one-time success, so it is more difficult. For a successful pyrography, its artistic features must have smooth lines, uniform coloring, reasonable transitional colors, and distinct levels of light and shade. In order to make a uniform line, Xie Yuyao burned dozens of plywood boards. It was really freezing three feet in a day. Slowly, Xie Yuyao finally mastered the basic techniques of pyrography, and began to pyrography, which looked a bit like mountain shadows and water patterns, but was it a painting? Not yet, what Xie Yuyao needs is to move towards being able to create a complete painting. But after all, with the initial success, Xie Yuyao was full of confidence and ambitious.

However, as a family of five, the financial situation is a bit stretched from time to time. Xie Yuyao’s "not doing his job properly" makes his wife, who is exhausted from the burden of the family, often complain: "She is already a lot older." , If you don’t think about ways to make money to support your family, how can you make a name for yourself by branding on this broken board every day?” Many relatives and friends also stopped supporting his wife and expressed strong opposition. Faced with the dissatisfaction and complaints of his relatives and friends, Xie Yuyao could only endure it silently, but he would never give in. He was a stubborn person and would never give up his pursuit because of interference and difficulties from external factors. In order to concentrate on pyrography, he built a simple attic on the roof of his house and moved the wooden boards that could be used for pyrography into the attic. Regardless of the severe cold or the scorching heat, he would soak in it all day long and be intoxicated. In his world of pyrography. In the summer, he was so hot that he sweated profusely, and in the winter, his hands and feet were numb from the cold. In order to save the cost of learning pyrography, he disposed of the damaged plywood and sold it to a repair shop at a low price, and then exchanged it for some new materials. Later, he felt that moving It was very troublesome to move them around, so I thought of another idea and bought some fir boards, burned them once, then used a plane to smooth them, then continued to bake and draw on them, and used them many times.

Xie Yuyao’s obsession with the art of pyrography went so far that one night in the summer of 2000, Xie Yuyao, who had been piling on plywood for more than ten hours, was unknowingly tired. I forgot to turn off the switch on the soldering iron and fell asleep on the workbench. The soldering iron was left on the wooden board for a long time, and it slowly started to catch fire. When the smoke filled the air, Xie Yuyao woke up from his sleep. It was already too late, and he was so frightened that he could only rush to put out the fire. By the time the fire was extinguished, Xie Yuyao was already "unrecognizable" and a lot of his hair and beard were burned.

The hard work paid off, and Xie Yuyao finally burned out the first painting on the wooden board. He was very happy and sang the tunes of his hometown alone in the small attic. But art is endless, and he began to try painting on plywood, silk cloth, and paper again. After years of hard work, his pyrography skills have become increasingly sophisticated, reaching the point where he can do whatever he wants. In 2001, a friend of his named Long bought a spacious house. After the overall renovation, Long always felt that something was missing, so he decided to go to the provincial capital to find a famous calligraphy and painting artist to buy a painting to hang. Go into the living room. After Xie Yuyao learned about it, he, who had always kept a low profile, volunteered and said, "Let me help you bake a painting." Let's bake one." Xie Yuyao took the order and thought hard for two days, deliberately composing the picture. A week later, "Mountain Dwelling", which was 1.2 meters wide and 2.44 meters long, was produced under his electric soldering iron. I saw the small bridges, flowing water, pavilions, flowers, plants and birds in the picture. It was so ingenious that he succeeded. Friend Long was stunned when he saw this painting "burned" with a soldering iron. He immediately hung it in the lobby of a hotel in Guanjianao, attracting many people from all walks of life to come and watch. Friend Long's business also From then on it became prosperous. Overjoyed, Mr. Long went to Xie Yuyao's house in person and paid 800 yuan in cash as a reward.

Since then, the reputation of pyrography wizard Xie Yuyao has slowly spread in Loudi.

He encouraged him and said, "It is very hard to engage in art. You are still young, so you must continue to work hard and carry forward this ancient traditional arts and crafts of our country." We must support Chinese culture, otherwise it will be a loss. "In 2002, the famous 100-year-old calligrapher Fu Guoqin admired his pyrographic paintings very much and happily inscribed the name of his studio "Jing Yizhai".

In this way, Xie Yuyao has "pyrography" The nickname "Painting Genius".

Representative Works