Huang Xiaoming is known as the "Golden Finger" of the industry because of his outstanding creativity and superb skills, and has won more than 70 awards.
At the same time, Huang Xiaoming has a pair of "big feet", which travel around the world every year to absorb artistic nutrients from various countries. The collision of ideas and the integration of cultures have enabled him to create a large number of exquisite woodcarvings rich in China's traditional language and rich in humanistic thoughts, which have been collected by politicians and celebrities in many countries and can be seen everywhere in many places of interest and pavilions in China.
How to make Dongyang woodcarving move from tradition to modernity and enter the international art stage is the current topic of "intellectual master" Huang Xiaoming.
Strive to create "modern Dongyang woodcarving" and express it in traditional language. This is Huang Xiaoming, a new artist in China and a new knowledge of China woodcarving.
As the youngest master of arts and crafts and woodcarving in China, Huang Xiaoming is unique, creatively applying various techniques and techniques, and successfully carrying out cross-border integration, which has won wide influence and unanimous praise from the industry:
The use of woodcarving language and other artistic languages is master Huang Xiaoming's unique artistic style: his first "sketch woodcarving" combines the sketch techniques in artistic theory with Dongyang woodcarving, which is very decorative; His original "ultra-realistic wood carving" shows the texture and texture, enhances the three-dimensional sense of modeling, and is very modern; Inspired by the camera, he creatively created a "wood carving with a view frame" with the thin relief on the ground as the bottom, while the object in the middle used deep relief or even high relief; The "Bamboo Slip Woodcarving" designed by him enriches the expression form and decoration scope of Dongyang woodcarving, and highlights the humanistic temperament and classical situation of Dongyang woodcarving. Bao Yue Jinlian, designed by him, uses a variety of material combinations, takes lotus cultivation in a water tank as a landscaping technique, and combines sculpture language to completely peel off the traditional wood carving form and create a new realm of Dongyang wood carving three-dimensional sculpture.
Oil painting into wood carving: after deeply experiencing the primitive life of local residents in Tibet and Inner Mongolia, he blended the oil painting style into wood carving and made a wood carving work "Xiang", which looks like an oil painting;
Integration of ethnic customs and woodcarving: Facing the unique richness and vicissitudes of tropical plants in Yunnan, he created a large screen "Rooting and Fighting Clouds" through different Woods. The roots of banyan trees are lush, elephants play, Dai girls bathe, and ethnic customs and woodcarving complement each other;
Innovation of the decorative art of curved surface carving: The beautiful scenery of the West Lake and the silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River inspired him to create eight large-scale "Bamboo-style poetry and painting woodcarving wall hanging", which led the innovation of the decorative art of curved surface carving and hung on the third floor of Hangzhou Leifeng Tower;
Reference of Jiading Bamboo Carving: In his recent work "Painting and Calligraphy of Chyi Chin", Huang Xiaoming borrowed the techniques of Jiading Bamboo Carving, making it an ordinary novel.
Master Huang Xiaoming's most representative work, Ge Muyuan, is a characteristic masterpiece created by Master Huang Xiaoming in three years. It combines the essence of China's architecture, wood carving, stone carving, brick carving and traditional culture, and vividly expresses the health of ancient people, family harmony and the existence of man and nature. He is an outstanding representative of the younger generation of masters in China.
The park combines China elements such as bamboo forest, stage, pavilions, cultural brush and ink, and successfully inherits the classic concepts of "quadrangle" in the north and "13 rooms" in the south, which is the perfect combination of wood carving and architecture in Dongyang.
A staunch defender of intangible cultural heritage
In the wave of market economy, Master Huang Xiaoming, as a persistent pursuer in art and a balancer in business, spared no effort in the imagination and inheritance of art, especially in the protection of China's intangible cultural heritage. He can be called a "guardian" and a firm "defender"!
Intangible cultural heritage is as important as the inheritance of national genes. It is a national brand and symbol, and also a part of cultural connotation. As the protector of intangible cultural heritage, Master Huang Xiaoming himself not only effectively transmitted the traditional skill of "woodcarving" to the world, but also kept moving forward as a pioneer in the protection of intangible cultural heritage in Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province and even the whole country.
Master Huang Xiaoming, as one of the inheritors of Zhejiang intangible cultural heritage, not only embodies his skills, but also has a rich collection, especially in wood carving and related intangible cultural heritage. Huang Xiaoming Woodcarving Art Museum's collection of "artworks" is undoubtedly the best annotation to the inheritors of Master Huang Xiaoming's intangible cultural heritage.
On the road of "defenders" of intangible cultural heritage, we have reason to believe that Master Huang Xiaoming must "swallow the world with his chest open", which is a kind of mind and tolerance, and also a demeanor as a "master"!
Artistic imagination and inheritance
On the balance between art and commerce;
In the composition of Dongyang woodcarving, "balance" is often mentioned. This kind of balance is not balanced, not a scattered or symmetrical layout, but a harmonious treatment of primary and secondary, virtual and real, dynamic and static, light and dark factors, thus forming a stable and pleasant visual effect and cultural aesthetics. This balance is actually a reflection of simple dialectical materialism in China's traditional culture.
All "jungles" have a set of balanced rules.
If Dongyang woodcarving is a "jungle", then its unavoidable relationship is industry and art.
Industrialized management has brought rolling financial resources to the field of art production, making it possible for artists to survive. This is a gift from the era of popular culture. For my father's generation, it is inconceivable to support the family with one skill. But if everything is profit-oriented, will it make art lose its original charm?
In fact, industry and art are not contradictory at all. The industrialization of art should make the audience feel happy, which is the premise of the survival of the cultural industry. For dongyang woodcarving artists, it is understandable to make money for survival, but no matter how to make money, it can't hurt the foundation of artistic production and dissemination after all.
The relationship between industrialization and artistry of woodcarving is similar to cohabitation. If this complex and delicate relationship is destroyed, it will lead to imbalance.
The real win-win situation is not difficult. It means "leave room for everything"-artists should make more artistic creations on the basis of making money and contribute a steady stream of products and wealth to the industry. Only in this way can we leave enough space for the growth of the industry and the charm of art and have more profit opportunities.
This is the wisdom of making money and the balance between industry and art.
About inheritance:
Both "handed down from generation to generation" and "relay race" show the same truth, that is, inheritance cannot be dated and annihilated, otherwise "inheritance" can only be empty talk.
In the wave of marketization, we feel the continuation of artistic life, just like a single spark constantly starting a prairie fire, but we can't ignore the infinite charm of innovative value behind the vigorous vitality.
"Take its essence, discard its dross" and "discard the false and retain the true, discard the rough and select the fine", so that the essence of art can be passed down from generation to generation and accepted and recognized by specific historical occasions.
Master Huang Xiaoming's persistence and reverence for art not only inherits the skill itself, but also inherits its spirit. He integrated infinite creativity into carving skills, seamlessly combined tradition and innovation, and created a brand-new new realm of woodcarving!