Artistic characteristics of Shanghai velvet embroidery

Shanghai velvet embroidery is especially good at creating portraits of foreign leaders. Velvet embroidered portraits are vivid and infectious, and are known as "oil paintings of the East".

Shanghai velvet embroidery works are well-known at home and abroad, especially after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In terms of varieties, only slipper surfaces and handbags can be produced, and it has developed into a large-scale artwork that can embroider various statues of leaders and landscapes of figures. It is unique because of its vivid image, rich colors, distinct layers and strong three-dimensional sense. Its characteristics are as follows: (1) Drawing lessons from the traditional embroidery technology in China, it enriches the artistic language of Shanghai velvet embroidery with changeable stitch, splicing technology, dividing line and color matching technology; (2) After artistic re-creation, the form, color, spirit and light are skillfully integrated, so that the velvet embroidery works have reached the faithful original and the artistic effect is superior to the original; (3) Cashmere embroidery works are specially treated to prevent mildew and moth, which not only prolongs the life of the works, but also enhances the artistic appeal; (4) In terms of color technique, the original simple color is improved to self-dyeing, which absorbs the advantages of embroidery technique. From monochrome embroidery to color matching embroidery, multicolored embroidery, color matching embroidery and other techniques, the picture is non-reflective and solemn, which is very suitable for making portraits of leaders and celebrities. And as a national gift, or as a memorial hall, exhibition hall, hotel decoration. For example, the huge velvet embroidery "Motherland" in the main hall of Chairman Mao Memorial Hall is solemn and harmonious in color, vividly showing the magnificence of the splendid rivers and mountains of the great motherland.

The velvet embroidery works in Shanghai not only reflect people and scenery, but also flowers, birds and still life. In artistic form, it can not only express colorful and complicated oil paintings; You can also embroider art photography, with vivid images and strong contrast; You can also transplant China ink painting, which has exquisite brushwork charm. Embroidery shows these works of art, which are not simply copied mechanically, but recreated according to the materials, properties and special technological processes used in velvet embroidery.

Gu embroidery is a wonderful flower in Shanghai velvet embroidery, which is an embroidery developed according to the embroidery technology and style of Shanghai bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty. It is characterized in that the broken silk is thinner than the hair, and a silk thread can be divided into more than 40 twigs for embroidery, with fine stitches, dense stitches, exquisite color matching, rich colors, lifelike and wonderful workmanship, so it is also called "painting embroidery".