Yang Yingxiu's road to study is quite tortuous. 1926, Yang Yingxiu was admitted to Changsha Changjun Middle School. Unable to pay the tuition, he transferred to Ningxiang Normal School and was forced to drop out of school due to illness. After leaving the classroom, Yang Yingxiu did not give up his dream of painting. He became more and more diligent in painting. Gradually, Yang Yingxiu's paintings became famous, and he often invited painters to visit.
Because of her good painting skills, Yang Yingxiu also smashed the master's job. When he first came to Guanghua Zhuang in Changsha as an apprentice, many people turned to him for painting because of his good painting skills and low pay. After taking painter Liu Songzhai as the teacher, he received strict training, paid attention to learning the artistic styles of Shi Tao and Ren Bonian, persisted in practicing the famous calligraphy of ancient calligraphers Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan and Zhao Mengfu, and merged with Wang Xizhi and Zhao Mengfu to become a kind of Wang Zhaoti, forming an inscription font commonly used in Xiang embroidery. 1935 started his career and officially became a painter. He resigned at the age of 30 and became a celebrity animator. His painting style is mainly beautiful and refreshing, with strong craftsmanship, and gradually matures in the practice of Chinese painting and arts and crafts. Zhang Daqian, a master of Chinese painting, passed by Changsha. Seeing his paintings, I was amazed and wanted to invite him to Shanghai to engage in artistic creation.
After the founding of New China, Hunan embroidery industry and arts and crafts developed rapidly. He pays attention to studying Wu Changshuo's paintings and strives to form his own characteristics and style. 1956 as the first painter to join the state-owned Xiang embroidery enterprise, he participated in the construction of the first state-owned Xiang embroidery factory and served as the director of the painting workshop of Jinxia Xiang embroidery factory. He brought a group of apprentices, cooperated with the fine arts major of Hunan Normal University, exchanged ideas and learned from each other, which not only improved their artistic accomplishment, but also provided them with learning opportunities. 1In August, 957, as one of the representatives of Hunan arts and crafts artists, he went to Beijing to attend the National Arts and Crafts Conference and was received by Vice President Zhu De. He published the article "Xiang Embroidery in Reconstruction" and put forward practical suggestions on the reform of Xiang Embroidery. On the anniversary of 1958 National Day 10, the State Council organized a collection of architectural paintings of 10. As the designer of Xiang embroidery painting, he went to Beijing to participate in creation and study. A year later, he returned to Changsha, released a batch of new works such as Qu Yuan, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon and Guan Yunchang, and began to change his works with tigers as the theme. (In the mid-1960s, Shan Hu created two screens, Zhu Mo and Mo Mei, for the Hunan Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, especially the latter used the artistic conception of "The cliff is already a hundred feet of ice, but there are still beautiful flowers" in Mao Zedong. His tireless exploration and innovation in art, on the basis of deliberately pursuing Wu Changshuo style, paid attention to the charm beauty of Chinese painting, the landscape was smart, the flowers and birds were unrestrained, and formed a unique personality. In his prime, he became a famous painter and arts and crafts artist in China.
During the Cultural Revolution, Yang Yingxiu was also treated unfairly. 1969 forced to leave the studio and devolve to the cadre school. The beauty of heaven and the fresh beauty of nature gave him rich creative materials and irresistible creative inspiration. Among the flower sketches published later, 70% were conceived while working in the countryside. /kloc-returned to Xiang embroidery factory in 0/973. 1974 He wrote "Grass Hero" for Guangzhou Small Commodities Fair, which received rave reviews and was bought by foreign businessmen for 40,000 US dollars. After 1977, he created the embroidered draft Tiger, which was selected for the National Arts and Crafts Exhibition and hung in Hunan Hall of the Great Hall of the People. 1979 created the huge Hunan embroidery "Hundred Birds Against the Phoenix", which painted 38 varieties, 102 birds, each with its own expression and interest, surpassing previous works with the same theme. This is his masterpiece in this issue, and it was well received at the Hong Kong Chinese Embroidery Exhibition. 1979 was awarded the title of China Arts and Crafts Artist by the State Council, and was cordially received by the party and state leaders. The lion, created in 198 1, won the Golden Cup Award and was selected as a national treasure, which will be kept in China Arts and Crafts Museum forever. Experts think it is the masterpiece of liger, a Hunan embroidery. From 65438 to 0982, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House published Yang Yingxiu's Selected Paintings, which included 25 Chinese paintings and showed his artistic creation for decades. 1983, he began to create a huge double-sided Xiang embroidery with Hunan characteristics when he was over 70 years old. On the recommendation of Hu Yaobang, President Li Xiannian gave him a gift to visit Romania. He also created two embroideries in Dongting, which were displayed in Hunan Hall of the Great Hall of the People. 1986 74-year-old held a solo exhibition in China Art Museum.
1993 65438+ died in Changsha on1October 4th at the age of 8 1.