Embroidery turned around and encountered difficulties

After embroidery giant pandas went abroad as a national ceremony, Chinese embroidery once again became a hot topic in the art circle. At the same time, the call for the transition from "manufacturing" to "creation" in Chinese embroidery has also grown. Suzhou has even built up a copyright library of embroidery works to solve the problem of the source of the embroidered articles.

However, embroidery has always been regarded as a handicraft rather than a work of art due to its lack of originality. Artists' creations are often linked to the terms "plagiarism" and "plagiarism," and it is difficult to turn gorgeously. What embroidery is an artwork rather than a handicraft? How do collectors appreciate embroidery art?

Drawing directly on paintings and paintings will lead to copyright disputes. Mr. Lai (a pseudonym) has always had a soft spot for embroidery. In the past 10 years, he has collected works of various kinds of embroidery. Although the prices of his collections have increased several times on average in the past few years, his “profit” space is far less than the latter’s collectors’ paintings: “Although embroidery is an important part of traditional Chinese craftsmanship, Heritage, but its price as an art commodity has always been underestimated."

“The price of embroidery has not been skyrocketing. The current price is more than a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands of yuan, and the price increase is lower than other types of art.” Zhou Yuan, head of the art institution Rainbow Society, told reporters, “From From another point of view, perhaps because the craft of embroidery is too superb, collectors are ignoring their fine art and ignoring their artistry.” This inherent notion of the market makes embroidery practitioners helpless and confused, and Su Xueyi Zhou Xueqing has no alternative. He said: "Now the embroidery artists are trying hard to accept new things and innovate themes so that their own embroidery works are closer to the artworks, but they still cannot reverse everyone's views."

In order to achieve this goal, the artists have their own supernatural powers. The most direct way is to draw directly from existing photographs, paintings or oil paintings as embroidery manuscripts. For example, Wu Xiaoping, an embroidery master who is a master of antique embroidery, is good at using ancient calligraphy and painting as a manuscript. His antique embroideries even have more light changes and textures than ancient paintings and calligraphy. Embroidery based on contemporary works of art, however, caused copyright disputes when it was widely circulated in the market, which had a negative impact on embroidery. Such embroidery is not only recognized as a work of art, it is even crowned with the words "plagiarism" and "plagiarism."

"I think embroidering embroidery with the famous masterpieces is copyright issues, not creation issues." Zhou Xueqing thinks this is quite a different matter. "If photographic authors agree that their works are used for embroidery, then this embroidery It is the creation of an embroidery artist.” In her view, the process of embroidery is also the process of creation: “The world is deeply influenced by paintings and calligraphy, and the understanding of art creation is a little one-sided. Many people think that ink is used to pour the painter’s thoughts. Isn't the embroidered work expressed by silk threads infused with the embroiderer's feelings and soul?” she suggested, the difference between the two is only the difference in form. It cannot require an embroidery artist to have the ability to paint at the same time. Can be considered creative.

It is misunderstood to write Down real and heavy abstractions. In order to increase the "artistic" content of embroidery, artists began to "seek" oil paintings and learn abstractions. Mr. Lai believes that this is a good attempt, but it is prone to a misunderstanding that realist, traditional, old-school embroidery is not a work of art. "The standard of measurement should be the use of acupuncture," said Mr Lai.

Zhou Xueqing also agrees with this view: “A lot of people think that the works of traditional subjects have only a single method and their use of color is not much. But I think this is not absolute, and some traditional thematic works will be represented by many acupuncture methods. The thickness of the lines is also different. To use so many rich techniques in one work, the price is surely higher. I think that not traditional is definitely not a work of art, and abstraction is definitely a work of art. ”

Zhou Yuan believes that the subject that is not necessarily abstract is the most difficult embroidery. The artist does not necessarily have to follow the trend of abstraction, but should find the subject that is most suitable to express his skills. Embroidery itself is a kind of handicraft. It can only be created on the basis of the ultimate in craftsmanship. Therefore, the embroidery work should be closer to the artwork. The most important thing is to see if the author has a solid foundation. "If the author can use the skills he has already mastered to embroider, I think this is creation." Zhou Yuan said.

Zhou Xueqing believes that this is the same principle as the “I write my heart” in calligraphy and painting. “When choosing the original manuscript, I chose the pattern I liked. This has already incorporated my own emotions in my works; when expressing my works, I With the silk thread, using various kinds of stitches to make changes, I think these are the process of creation."

In the creation, the embroidery artist must consider how to express the three-dimensionality and the light and shadow of the objects in detail, and it is not easy to express them with silk thread and stitches. The thread used for embroidery is composed of protein. The effect of each part of the embroidery reflected by light is not the same. Artists should consider what kind of acupuncture is used to express different effects. "So, although the drawing is someone else's, the effect it shows is created by oneself." Zhou Xueqing said.