When it comes to "dry wine", the first thing that most people in China think of must be the famous pop song "Dry wine not for sale", which has been sung all over the country and across the Taiwan Strait and inspired countless young people. Its title is "Do you have any empty wine bottles to sell?" The meaning of the song tells a touching inspirational story behind it. If this song once gave "dry wine" inspirational feelings, then today, another Minnan people gave "dry wine" a brand-new artistic life.
In the first interview, Ms. Yang, the founder and team instructor of the award-winning product Yige Bottle Art sponsored by the Fengze District Cultural and Sports Tourism Press and Publication Bureau's "I Go to Fengze District" WeChat public platform, is also a teacher of the Academy of Fine Arts of Huaqiao University, an expert member of Quanzhou Creative Industry Association and a director of Quanzhou Industrial Design Association.
China has a wine culture for thousands of years, but from the beginning, the value of wine bottles is not limited to wine, but also has inherent aesthetic quality. From the roundness, simple colors and simple patterns of ceramic wine bottles in the Stone Age, we can see the early people's demands for the aesthetic function of wine vessels. Since then, the material of the wine bottle has been constantly switched between copper, porcelain, iron and even jade, and the shape of the wine bottle has also changed greatly. After entering the industrial civilization, mass production and mass consumption greatly reduced the poetic factor of wine bottles. Bottles have largely become disposable commodities, and no one cares about their existence. It seems that the time when the mood and pictures were compiled on the bottle is gone forever?
In fact, beauty has never gone far. Isn't it often said that "life is not a lack of beauty, but a lack of eyes to find beauty"? The beauty of the bottle has been waiting for the eyes to discover. Ms. Yang has such a pair of highly sensitive eyes.
Whenever asked why he loves bottle art, Teacher Yang always recalls: "In the Spring Festival of 2008, my husband's brother brought us two bottles of ice wine from Canada. The bottle is thin, tall, beautiful and special. I have been collecting it. " "My creation stems from these two bottles that I don't want to throw away." "Later, I saw some articles about wine labels in a book called Top Eternal Luxury Legend. I was attracted by these articles, so I had a whim and wanted to create on the bottle. " At that time, Teacher Yang found a female student who was also interested in painting bottles. "We drew a castle on the ice bottle. Although the skills are not skilled enough, it is very memorable to me. "
I am afraid it is not accidental that I germinated my desire to create art on two empty bottles that I can't bear to throw away, and I boldly put it into practice. You may think that it contains an environmental awareness of "turning waste into treasure" and "reusing old bottles". Of course there is nothing wrong with this. But more, it should still be out of aesthetic sensitivity to the natural form of the bottle, thus sprouting the impulse to create a second life for the bottle in an instant. As Teacher Yang said, "Drinking wine is like a bottle running out of life for the first time, and our creation is like giving it a second life." In any case, Mr. Yang found a brand-new artistic creation space and tried bravely. Since 2009, bottle art creation has been out of control: from scratch, from birth to maturity, from single to rich, from conservative to open.
In a blink of an eye, after seven years' experience, Teacher Yang led her "one-size-fits-all" team, and finally explored a creative route of bottle art based on Minnan, facing the world, taking root in tradition and constantly innovating. At present, nearly 400 excellent works have been published. Some of the representative works often appear in major traditions and new media. April 20 14, the "Love Martial Arts Pavilion" bottle art collection exhibition held in Xiutiandi Excellent Space, Quanzhou, fused Minnan elements with regional cultural characteristics such as Quanzhou Puppet, Hui 'an Daughter and Quanzhou Bay into one bottle, becoming the first bottle art exhibition in China. Teacher Yang's bottle art works are often both traditional and modern, global and regional, and combine the historical context with the spirit of the times properly, which has multiple values such as economy, society, culture and art.
Externally, Mr. Yang seems to particularly like cross-border. Because art is not her major, she graduated from Huaqiao University with a major in law. Out of personal interest, I studied in Beijing Institute of Fashion and internationally renowned Raffles Clothing School. Teacher Yang's family studies seem to have nothing to do with art. Her father graduated from the chemistry department of Xiamen University and is a favorite pupil of the famous physical chemist Mr. Lu Jiaxi. Her husband graduated from the Department of Precision Machinery of China University of Science and Technology, and most of the others in the family studied mechanical manufacturing, accounting and finance. These majors, which have nothing to do with art at first glance, have not affected Miss Yang's natural love for art, but have provided rich inspiration for her bottle art creation from different aspects. For example, she is particularly good at integrating the modeling of traditional costumes into the artistic creation of bottle bodies, and can combine the two seamlessly.
After setting up the studio team on 20 10, Mr. Yang also hired teachers majoring in chemical engineering or machinery as special consultants, because the complexity of bottle art creation often touches different disciplines and fields not only in the ideological level but also in the practical level. Therefore, the truth in the world is basically the same. In Mr. Yang's view, cross-border is not a simple misappropriation of technical means, but an analogy after understanding the deep spirit of art. Mr. Yang said: "Artistic creation is a natural expression of life and a true expression of emotions." This is you getting carried away and getting carried away. The creative idea of China's traditional art can be described as an unexpected encounter with Yang Ping's artistic creation.
Shi Tao, a painter in the Qing Dynasty, said: "Pen and ink should keep pace with the times", and so should bottle art creation. We can't completely copy the tradition, but must integrate into the spirit of the times and even regional culture. Teacher Yang's bottle art is consciously integrated into Minnan culture and has created many bottle art works with regional cultural characteristics.
For example, "Erythrina Red" takes Erythrina flowers in Quanzhou as the background color, and the red background color is Erythrina color, which is decorated with blue and white cool tones to form a sharp color temperature contrast. This work also coincides with the tradition of love for red in Minnan folk art. Imitating the river and taking the even head is to transplant the classic shape of Quanzhou puppet to the bottle painting to form a lively character shape. With strong and passionate colors, Hui 'an women's clothing culture is fully displayed. "In fact, I didn't decorate the bottle too much, just embellished some buttons and patterns." That's what Teacher Yang said. As a representative work of Teacher Yang, Drunk Youth Dream is also a patent work. Combining the classical beauty of Dehua blue-and-white porcelain with the "incomplete beauty" with modern aesthetic spirit, the traditional feelings of blue-and-white fabric are faintly visible. ?
"Technology is close to art and art is close to Taoism", and "technology, art and Taoism" constitute three aesthetic realms from bottom to top. From "bottle art" to "bottle road" is the artist's natural spiritual appeal. Teacher Yang said, "One bottle is the world. I hope that through our efforts and accumulation, we can raise the bottle art to a higher level and eventually become a' bottle road'. " Everything is self-sufficient, a bottle is a world, a small world in the big world, and a microcosm of the world itself. Therefore, the true spirit of "bottle art" lies in observing Tao through bottles, realizing Tao through bottle art, thinking about art, tasting life and knowing the world in bottle art. Teacher Yang's "Elephant Invisible" series can be said to be a rare masterpiece that directly expresses "bottle Tao". The five bottles are slightly deformed, forming a series of relaxed, well-opened, ups and downs, which has a cosmic trend of "looking up at the sky and overlooking geography".
For bottle art creators, the process of pursuing "bottle Dao" is not only the process of pursuing technical Excellence for perfection, but also the process of constantly experiencing and polishing their own body and mind. For young bottle art creators, they should be full of energy, stimulate their will, and at the same time strengthen their own bottle art creation level, so that as many people as possible can understand bottle art, learn bottle art, and even join the team of bottle art creators. The so-called "consciously aware of him, measure others" is also true.
Laozi said, "useless use is great use." The artistic creation of "Love without exception" led by Mr. Yang is by no means a simple "reuse of old bottles", but picking up history, finding the present and meeting the future in a small bottle.
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Yang, female, from Quanzhou, Fujian, graduated from Huaqiao University Law School, and successively graduated from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology and Raffles International Fashion Institute. Now he is the creative director of Quanzhou Ai Wu Yige Cultural and Creative Co., Ltd., the instructor of Ai Wu Yige team, the bottle artist, the director of Quanzhou Industrial Design Association, the expert member of Quanzhou Creative Industry Association, and the head of the reference room of the Academy of Fine Arts of Huaqiao University. His hand-painted bottle works were selected in the list of "Quanzhou Handmade Gifts", and three masterpieces, Drunken Youth Dream, Elephant InvisibleNo. 1 and Elephant Invisible No.2, won national patents.
Liu Xiangdong, a famous modern artist. He has published more than 200 poems and paintings in magazines such as Fine Arts, Poetry Magazine and Oriental Art, and published more than 0/0 books such as New Style Art and Imagery, Film and Television Theory and Creation.
Wang Dongsong, an art historian, is a doctor of philosophy of art at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a master tutor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Huaqiao University, and a distinguished researcher at Jiangsu Institute of Technology. He has published dozens of academic papers in core journals such as Art Research, Decoration, Art and Design, Slim, and translated one academic monograph, Manet's Modernism.
Note: Teacher Yang's Bottle Art is a call, a demand, a creation and a persistence. It is like a small flower blooming on a cliff, with its back facing the mainland and facing the ocean. It is singing and dancing in the sunshine of Mu Feng, with vigorous vitality and brilliant dreams. As Teacher Yang said, "If they can withstand the erosion of history, these bottle arts will undoubtedly become a beautiful landscape in the artistic sky of later generations!" This is also the future we all look forward to!
(The article was written on 20 16, and the pictures are all from Ai Wu.)