Yanghouxing porcelain painting

Porcelain plate painting, also known as porcelain plate painting, is developed on the basis of China's traditional painting methods, ceramic painting and western photography.

It is a clever combination of painting art and porcelain burning technology, with strong Jiangxi cultural characteristics. Porcelain plate painting was founded in Qing Dynasty 1892, with Deng Bishan as its founder and Liang Dunshi as his apprentice. In the early years of the Republic of China, Liang Dunshi, a native of Nanchang, opened Lizexuan Porcelain Village in the prosperous section of Zhongshan Road, and hired painters to draw portraits and pastel porcelain according to customers' requirements, which pioneered the development of porcelain plate painting in Nanchang. Driven by him, various porcelain galleries appeared one after another, and a number of porcelain painters such as Liang, Yang Houxing and Wu Yueshan were born.

Yang Houxing's paintings can be described as Danqing's original style. He mainly paints landscapes, figure dances and ancient traditional paintings. In particular, his portraits are exquisite in brushwork, delicate in color, realistic in figure form, delicate in texture and so on. 1933, his works were selected to participate in the World Expo in Chicago, USA, and caused a sensation as soon as they were exhibited. Soon, his works were exhibited in Zhongshan Memorial Hall in Nanchang, which was well received. In 1930s, he painted stills for the English version of Wang Baochuan, which was shot in Hollywood, USA, and participated in the Chicago Expo, which was well received. In the mid-1930s, Yang Houxing began to try to cover the black-and-white porcelain image with another layer of color and re-fire it. Its technique and effect were similar to those of Shanghai's Brush Moon brand New Year pictures. It was not until the early 1950s that he successfully tried to paint portraits on porcelain directly in color, making the portraits on porcelain more colorful and expressive.

1948, "The Most Xuan Ming Studio" opened in Nanchang, becoming one of the authoritative porcelain painting studios in Nanchang. From 65438 to 0954, he worked in Nanchang porcelain statue cooperative group, cooperative and Nanchang arts and crafts factory. 1956, joined the China * * * production party. He used to be deputy director, director and honorary director of the cooperative, member of provincial and CPPCC committees, member of China Artists Association, director of Jiangxi Branch and director of China Arts and Crafts Society. It has been rated as advanced workers and model workers in provinces and cities for many times. 1979, the Ministry of Light Industry awarded Yang Houxing and other 34 people the title of "China Master of Arts and Crafts" for the first time (1988 was renamed as China Master of Arts and Crafts), and he is the only artist who has won this honor so far. Won the title of senior arts and crafts artist.

His works have participated in many national arts and crafts exhibitions and performed in the Canton Fair for many times, all of which have been well received. 1957, the work "Xinjiang Dance and Film Actor" participated in the National Arts and Crafts Exhibition; 1959, the works "Portrait of Qi Baishi" and "Portrait of Poplar" participated in the exhibition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China; 1964 The work "Little Laundry Girl" won the Excellent Works Award of Five Provinces Health Art Exhibition; 197 1 year's sword dance, 1979' s portrait of premier Zhou, 198 1 year's fantasia, Kodak people, Japanese girls and chips' daughter were robbed, all of which won excellent works. The photo of the work "Sincere Friendship" was published in Decoration magazine; Color photos of Indonesian Dance were published in the third issue of People's Pictorial 1980. Many of his works were collected by China Arts and Crafts Museum and Jiangxi Arts and Crafts Museum respectively. I performed live skills at the Canton Fair six times. At the Canton Fair, his works such as Portrait of Qin Gui, Portrait of Zhang Fa, Stills of Zhou, Stills of Mei Lanfang, Evans and Einstein, Girls in the West, Moonlit Night on the Spring River, and Song of Dresses were well received by foreign guests and overseas Chinese. Works are exported to the United States, Japan, the Soviet Union, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong and Macao. 1985 65438+ 10 held a solo exhibition in Nanchang. The paper "Creation of Porcelain Painting" was published in the first episode of Selected Papers jointly published by Jiangxi Arts and Crafts Society and Jiangxi Arts and Crafts Research Institute in March, 1982.

Since the spring of 1964, at the invitation of the organizing committee of Guangzhou China Export Commodities Fair, Yang Houxing has performed porcelain portrait painting on the spot at the 6th Canton Fair, which greatly expanded the influence of porcelain portrait painting on guests from all over the world. At that time, there were articles in the Journal of Canton Fair and newspapers in Hong Kong and Macao. Since then, Yang Houxing has painted portraits of many world celebrities such as Queen Elizabeth of England, Prime Minister Thatcher and President Nixon of the United States, which has a certain influence in the field of world art. His works are praised as "the essence of porcelain art" by international friends.

Yang Houxing's works are exquisite in style, accurate in image, rich in light and shadow levels, vivid in characters' expressions and vivid in texture. The muscles, hair, clothing, glass, bamboo and metal objects in the scenery are lifelike. His works not only have the distinctive features of Chinese painting, but also apply techniques such as photography, oil painting, famille rose and watercolor painting to porcelain painting, making a bold attempt for the innovation of porcelain painting. He also uses new materials New technologies and designs have successfully created new varieties such as white jade slice painting and fluorescent double-sided painting. On the white jade piece, figures and landscapes with oil painting and traditional Chinese painting effects are painted with porcelain pigments, and small screens such as Mulan Joining the Army and the Picture of a Lady are painted with traditional line drawing and coloring methods. Drawing on the effect of Suzhou Shuang Mianxiu, he created double-sided screens such as tropical fish and goldfish, which achieved artistic effects that other paintings could not achieve. CCTV also broadcast a feature film to introduce his porcelain painting art to the whole country.

He cares about the economic construction of his hometown, trains talents for the production of ceramic handicrafts in his hometown, personally draws the large-scale board screen that Lichuan Huashan Porcelain Factory sent to the Canton Fair, and donates tens of thousands of yuan to the poverty alleviation cause in his hometown. In his later years, he still devoted himself to artistic creation. During this period, he also received several apprentices. 1992, Yang Houxing completed his 77-year-old life in a garden-style building in Shuiguanyin Pavilion in Nanchang. (19 15— 1992), artist of porcelain prints in Nanchang, Jiangxi.