Yao Jianping founded Suzhou Zhenhu Embroidery Research Institute on 1998 and Suzhou Yao Jianping Embroidery Art Museum in 2002. His works won the gold medal of "Mountain Flower Award", the highest prize of China folk literature and art, for more than ten times, and were sent back by satellite twice. Suzhou embroidery masterpiece "I Love China" travels in space with satellites, which is the first flying embroidery work in the art history. Yao Jianping's works have been presented to foreign dignitaries and celebrities as national gifts for many times, and some of his works have been collected by many important institutions and individuals at home and abroad. She is also collected by many Chinese and foreign celebrities, such as Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Annan, George H.W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth, Chirac and Xiu Xiang. 20110 Yao Jianping's two masterpieces of Suzhou embroidery, Fuchun Shan Jutu and Century Peace-Hundred Pigeons, were successfully listed on the Tianjiao Exchange. 20 12 On June 7th, Yao Jianping's embroidery The Queen of England was officially collected by the British royal family. Prince Andrew told Yao Jianping that this is the first time that Buckingham Palace has collected the works of contemporary artists from China. 20 12 "Early Spring in the South of the Yangtze River", a masterpiece of Suzhou embroidery, was exhibited in the the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) Plenary Hall of the Great Hall of the People. This work represents the highest level of embroidery art today and is a "milestone work" and "masterpiece" in the history of Chinese embroidery. 20 12 10 at the invitation of Nicolas, president of Paris autumn art salon, Yao Jianping went to Paris to attend the Paris autumn art salon exhibition. Her Su embroidery works conquered Paris, the world art capital, and caused a sensation on the Champs Elysé es. 2065438+On February 28th, 2003, the representative work of Su embroidery "All rivers run into the sea" was collected in Zhongnanhai. The traditional exquisite and elegant works are changed, and the stylus focuses on its majestic momentum and broad mind, which is a new breakthrough in Suzhou embroidery technology and is highly praised by many leaders and experts. On 20 14, Tsinghua University opened the first Yao Jianping Advanced Workshop on Chinese Embroidery, and appointed Yao Jianping as the instructor of the Advanced Workshop on Chinese Embroidery.
Yao Jianping integrated the line, structure, color, light and shadow changes of oil painting, photography, sculpture, Chinese painting and calligraphy, organically combined with traditional embroidery stitch, paid attention to the aesthetic tendency of works, emphasized the natural transition of light and shadow colors, boldly pursued the richness of colors, made full use of the respective characteristics of plain stitch embroidery and random stitch embroidery, integrated Chinese and Western styles, integrated ancient and modern times, flexibly used the transformation of fluency and chaos in ingenious changes, and absorbed the characteristics of various embroidery schools. First, Yao Jianping pays special attention to the harmonious treatment of modeling structure, and the composition expression is patchy and dense; Second, she boldly uses complex and rich tones, boldly pursues color contrast and color complementarity, and sets off a strong and colorful color effect; Thirdly, she skillfully deals with the natural light-shade transformation relationship. The realistic part is piled up with plain needle embroidery, and the hazy part is transitioned with disorderly needle embroidery, so that the works complement each other. Fourthly, she paid special attention to the combination of acupuncture and silk theory, painting theory and embroidery theory, and grasped the trend of acupuncture and silk theory with great ease. Different stitches and silk theory are intertwined, and through the refraction of light, they present different sense of spatial distance and uneven three-dimensional sense. After more than ten years' efforts, Yao Jianping has created a number of national treasures with high artistic value, and won the national invention patent of embroidery stitch in Guang Yun, which has established her position as a leading standard bearer in Chinese embroidery field.