Xu Xiutang, male, born in 1939, Beipiao, Liaoning. Member of China-Japan Friendship Calligraphers Association, executive director of Fuzhou Art Friendship Association, and vice chairman of Modern National Calligraphy and Painting Artists Association. 1985 to 1988 studied at China Calligraphy and Painting Correspondence University, Beijing Branch. Hold five individual calligraphy exhibitions. He has won the third prize of calligraphy and couplets in the National Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition of "Hometown of Overseas Chinese Cup", the calligraphy Excellence Award in the National Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition of "Love My Great Wall", the calligraphy Excellence Award in the National Amateur Painting and Calligraphy Competition of "Hope Cup" and the third prize in the National Painting and Calligraphy Photography Exhibition of "Grassland". His works were exhibited and collected in Beijing National Culture Palace. The article was included in China Dictionary of Folk Celebrities and Who's Who of Contemporary Art in China.
Chinese name: Xu Xiutang.
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: beipiao city, Liaoning.
Date of birth: 1939
Occupation: calligrapher
Graduate School: China Calligraphy and Painting Correspondence University, Beijing Branch.
Main achievements: "Praise Praise the Grassland" won the third prize of calligraphy in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Calligraphy and Photography.
Representative work: Love My Great Wall
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Xu Xiutang, born in February 1937, is a senior arts and crafts artist, a master of arts and crafts in China, a member of China Artists Association, a director of China Ceramic Art Association, and a librarian of Jiangsu Provincial Museum of Literature and History.
Character experience
From 65438 to 0954, he studied the decorative skills of pottery carving with Ren Ganting, a pottery sculptor. 1955 Joined Shushan Ceramic Production Cooperative (predecessor of Zisha Factory). 65438-0958 studied in the sculpture research class of folk artists of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, and then transferred to the studio of "Clay Fighter Zhang" to study folk clay sculpture.
1959 participated in the sculpture creation of the martyrs monument in Huaihai Campaign. 1968 presided over and successfully trial-produced the large-scale purple sand pottery sculpture "Chairman Mao went to Anyuan" with a height of 2.8 meters. 1972, various creative design research work was resumed, and clay materials suitable for sculpture production were successfully trial-produced, and methods such as coloring, inlaying and shearing were adopted. And fired the sculpture with "Huifa Glaze", and created "Group Carvings of Journey to the West" for the first time, which was loved by merchants at the Canton Fair. 1973 presided over the overall design of Quinn's tea sets, water pots, fish-shaped stationery, fish-patterned bottles and other works, and skillfully combined porcelain, bamboo and metal materials with purple sand techniques, such as porcelain bead inlay, silver thread inlay, colored mud, brocade pattern, hair cutting and so on. 1977 Copying with Jiangsu sculptors 18 Suzhou Dongshan Bauhinia Nanluohan clay sculpture and Zisha pottery firing samples, which were filed by Jiangsu arts and crafts units respectively.
Award winning status
1978 created vivid works such as Xiao Yi's Orchid Pavilion, Cao Cao's Theory of Heroes in Cooking Wine, and Sesshū Tōyō's Painting Learning. Participated in Yixing Ceramic Exhibition held in Beijing and the national ceramic art exhibition and evaluation activities, and won the national art design award. Among them, "Sesshū Tōyō Xue Hua" has been selling well for 8 consecutive years after it was put into production. Yixing Zisha Craft Pottery, written in cooperation with Gu Jingzhou, published by Jiangsu Ceramics 1979. Later, he successively created a number of works with the themes of group combination, cultural celebrities and folk allusions, such as Jian Zhen and Chao Heng, The Golden Toad of Liu Hai, Fishing Singing and Playing with Beads, Zuo Ba Guai, Four Generations of Writers, Drinking Eight Immortals and so on. Among them, "Sitting Eight Monsters" won the first prize in the national ceramic art design appraisal. 198 1 year, Gu Jingzhou and others attended the Asian Arts Festival organized by the Hong Kong Urban Council. 1986, the design of Zisha display pottery "Ice Printing" won the first prize of national ceramic design appraisal. 1987 to Zisha No.2 Factory as the director of sculpture art branch, enthusiastically cultivating young people. He also created large-scale pottery, such as the pure bottle Guanyin statue with a height of 162 cm and a weight of 172 kg, as well as large-scale Wan Wen furnishings such as peanuts, winter bamboo shoots, ganoderma lucidum and Shi Ding incense burners. In addition to creating pottery sculptures, he also designed and created a number of distinctive teapot, including Dragon and Phoenix Pot, Tianwei Pot, Lingbao Pot, Time Bag Pot, Daping Pot, Zhubao Ping 'an Pot and so on. And understand the inscription to make it timely, timely and affectionate. During this period, he published a paper "On the Art of Zisha Pottery Carving" and won the first prize of "Zisha Culture Essay Award" organized by Wenhui Daily. He also co-edited Yixing Zisha Zhenjian with Gu Jingzhou, which was published by Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore. From 65438 to 0990, he created sculpture artistic images with humanistic themes from Yixing, mainly including "Learning Art for Spring" and "Purple Sand Artist Shao Daheng". Published his new work "Eighteen Arhats" at the second Purple Pottery Art Exhibition in China. These works highlight the humanistic spirit and show the overall image through the re-creation of artistic functions, which is unique in charm. 1989 visit to Japan. 199 1 year, invited by Japan Ceramic Star University, I visited Tokyo University of the Arts, Takeno University of the Arts and the Ceramic Department of Star University, and visited many exhibitions and museums. 1992 at the invitation of Taiwan Province National Culture Foundation, he and his brother Xu Hantang visited Taiwan Province Province to carry out cross-strait purple sand cultural exchange activities. 65438-0994, Yixing Changle Red Ceramics Co., Ltd., a Sino-foreign joint venture with Mr. Hong Gao as the technical director, was established. 1996 was invited by Taiwan Province National Culture Foundation to visit Taiwan Province Province again and publish "On the Artistic Expression of Zisha Sculpture". His works were highly praised by colleagues in Taiwan Province Province, and he won the Chinese National Culture Award in 1996, and initiated and hosted the "First China Modern Ceramics Exhibition". Engaged in purple sand craft for more than 40 years. He not only has profound artistic attainments in purple sand craft, but also studies China's paintings and calligraphy, and integrates them into purple sand craft creation. He created more than 200 excellent purple sand ceramic sculptures, which perfectly combined traditional skills with modern styles. Many works have been collected by Victoria Museum, Palace Museum and Shanghai Museum in London, England.