Leading Talents of Traditional Crafts of "Ten Thousand People Plan"
On January 25, the Office of the Leading Group for Talent Work of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee issued the "Announcement of Proposed Candidates for the "Ten Thousand People Plan" of Zhejiang Province in 2018. A total of 200 candidates were recommended. Among them, Wu Xinhui, the art director of Hongxin Sculpture and a master of Chinese arts and crafts, was selected as a leader in traditional crafts.
Zhejiang Province "Ten Thousand People Plan" is a special support plan for high-level talents in Zhejiang Province. It has been implemented since 2017, and it is planned to spend about ten years to select and support a group of high-level talents in the fields of natural sciences, engineering technology, philosophy and social sciences, economic and financial management, etc. Talents, leading talents and young talents will drive the province to form a special support plan for 10,000 high-level talents, and build a high-level innovation and entrepreneurship team building system that is interconnected with overseas high-level talent introduction programs. Zhejiang “Ten Thousand People Plan” has 8 categories with 3 levels of outstanding talents, leading talents, and young talents.
"Zhejiang is a big province with traditional crafts and talents. I am very honored to be included in the Zhejiang "Ten Thousand People Plan" list. I will work harder to study carving skills, actively promote the traditional culture of boxwood wood carving, and promote the improvement of wood carving and sculpture skills. Good inheritance, let the oriental sculpture aesthetics to the world," said Master Wu Yaohui.
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Wu Yaohui, a master of Chinese arts and crafts, a senior arts and crafts artist, a master of Chinese woodcarving art, a national woodcarving art researcher of China Woodcarving Museum, and an art director of Zhejiang Hongxin Sculpture Art Co., Ltd. One of the most representative figures in wood carving. His works are rigorous in shape, concise lines, ancient clumsy and powerful, exaggerated techniques, very charm, and a certain distance and difference compared with the traditional fine carving, and gradually formed his own unique carving art style. He has created more than 200 excellent works successively, and has won various awards.
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In the nearly 40 years of art, on the basis of inheriting the traditional boxwood carving skills, Master Wu Yaohui has incorporated modern aesthetic elements into wood carving, actively innovated, and created a unique wood carving long scroll expression. As the artistic director of Hongxin Sculpture, Wu Yaohui led Hongxin Sculpture to interpret the aesthetics of sculpture with oriental art, which was gradually recognized by friends at home and abroad.
In the years interwoven with boxwood, Wu Yaohui achieved boxwood, which also nourished the thickness of the carpenter's life. "Classicism is in the folk", Wu Yaohui realized the rebirth of traditional oriental classicism with both hands. He is willing to carry the classical charm, but also willing to try the modern interest, and constantly try to draw from a variety of art culture, forge a different kind of artistic vitality of the work.
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"Appreciation of Music" won the Eleventh Chinese Folk Literature and Art Award "Mountain Flower Award"
Under the original volume of boxwood created by Chinese craftsman Wu Yaohui, a wonderful scene of music appreciation was vividly carved. Warm and stable wood box carvings give the picture a unique expressive image. Although the work is a sculpture, "Appreciation of Music" can be agile, and each character expresses his energy in the author's interpretation of beauty. The layout of the sculpture space corresponds to the position of the music, the lines of the characters are vigorous and smooth, and the expression is also intoxicated in the beautiful melody.
"Datang Prosperous World Series Sculpture" won the twelfth "Mountain Flower Award"
The work places the sculptures of city figures and scenes on the whole wooden board according to the spatial logic design. The boxwood carvings produced a complete scroll of the prosperous age, and one of the "City" pictures in "The Tang Dynasty's Prosperity" vividly described the happy life scenes of the city people. The characters are different, the sculpture space layout is rigorous, and the figure's body lines are vigorous and smooth. If you look closely, everyone has a different look, different clothes, and different hairpins and hairpins.
Without the author's extreme observation of the details of life in all aspects, and the thorough understanding of the customs and culture in ancient books and ancient paintings in the Tang Dynasty, it is impossible to express the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty in the form of a long boxwood carving in such a vivid way. In front of contemporary people.
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On July 5, 2018, the "Muli Qiankun"-Wu Yaohui wood carving art exhibition hosted by the Zhejiang Provincial Museum was grandly opened in the Wulin Pavilion of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum. The exhibition displays more than 60 representative works of Chinese craftsman Wu Yaohui's fine works, presenting a vivid world of boxwood carvings to the audience.
Chinese arts and crafts masters and national-level intangible cultural heritage inheritors, as capable craftsmen of our time, inherit the "incense" and glory of old skills, protect the ancient history, and at the same time innovate in inheritance, train new people, pass on fire, Hope to create a better future.
The Zhejiang Provincial Museum is the highest historical and cultural art hall in the Zhejiang area. An exhibition is held here. Wu Yaohui, a master of Chinese arts and crafts, also contributed to the development of boxwood carvings. Through the exhibition, Zhejiang people can see the beauty of boxwood carvings and discover the cultural core of oriental aesthetics. This is a grand event in the arts and crafts world and a feast for the cultural and art world. "
Forty years of hard work
Forty years of painstaking study
The mission of spreading oriental aesthetics is always in mind
The pace of inheriting innovative culture has never stopped
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