[Commentary] Who says that needlework can only be done by women, and if a man is serious, it ’s amazing. Liu Yunfan, a master of arts and crafts in Wushan, Tianshui, Gansu, embroidered the grottoes, Thangka, and painted pottery on the canvas through superb needlework. His needlework accommodates the vivid and detailed ink and wash personality of Hunan embroidery, combined with different colors and shades, embroidering a natural light and dark gloss, and can also split an embroidery thread into more than 8 ultra-fine threads into his own. The work makes the grottoes and big Buddhas in embroidery have a three-dimensional sense of relief, and the light and dark gloss in the lines are distinct, just like a photo shoot.
A few days ago, Liu Yunfan told reporters in his studio that apart from studying embroidery, he also studied fine arts, photography, and history. He also incorporated the light and dark of painting and photography through stitches and threads into embroidery. In order to re-recognize embroidery and put aside the restraint of traditional embroidery ideas, he conducted a 5-year in-depth study at Tsinghua University.
[Same period] Liu Yunfan, a master of arts and crafts in Gansu
After absorbing such profound nutrients and nutrients from the whole folk, on the basis of this, I combined the art and photography (the fusion), that is, embroidering a camel under the sunset with backlit photography with light and shadow To express it, only embroider the backlight, only the minor parts, and save the main part, but the effect is very good. This means that in fact, photography or art can be integrated into the whole.
[Explanation] As a Gansu master of arts and crafts, Long embroidery (Gansu embroidery) leader, Liu Yunfan has undertaken the burden of protection, excavation, sorting and creation for the excavation, inheritance and development of Long embroidery cultural skills. He said that the history of Chinese embroidery could not be bypassed. Long as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the embroidery of Buddha statues in Gansu turned Chinese embroidery from practical goods to appreciative ones, and also formed the integrated development of the “combination of painting and embroidery” in Chinese embroidery. At the same time, he was glad that he lived in Gansu, where many ethnic groups lived together, and the farming culture and the nomadic culture blended, leaving a rich cultural and historical heritage.
[Same period] Liu Yunfan, a master of arts and crafts in Gansu
The spirit of silk and silk is reflected because it is a golden section of the Silk Road in Gansu, but how is silk and silk reflected, and where is the spirit of silk and silk? Then it comes to the profoundness of our Gansu culture. Gansu is located at the intersection of the three major plateaus, so farming culture, nomadic culture, and snowy culture. The three major cultures collide here. It is determined by geography. It is because of Gansu ’s unique geography that it has created such a rich cultural and historical heritage in Gansu.
[Explanation] For more than 20 years, Liu Yunfan has achieved many achievements in his creations. His works involve Feitian, Dunhuang, grottoes, painted pottery and other silk road elements, and he also won the gold prize of the "Chinese Arts and Crafts 100 Flowers Award". His studio, full of embroidery works of various Dadiwan cultures and Dunhuang cultures, has also turned this place into a "hundred garden" with a thick cultural accumulation.
Reporter Li Yalong Wei Jianjun Tianshui Gansu reported
Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]