Woolen needlepoint tapestry(绒绣) is embroidered on the special mesh linen with all sorts of graphics and design and color wool yarn embroidery. Woolen needlepoint tapestry mainly is made in Shanghai and Shandong Yantai in China. Woolen needlepoint tapestry comes from embroidery, higher than the embroidery. Through dyeing, split line, color, color gradient, network transition and rich palette images to process finish the woolen needlepoint tapestry.
Woolen needlepoint tapestry is mainly divided into two types: appreciate goods and daily necessities.
Appreciated goods: General has bigger picture, most of the copy are famous paintings, figures and landscape photos. Thread color often amounted to hundreds of species with particular emphasis on the transition of levels, hue, and pay attention to the expression of characterization. Often used as a large construction of interior decoration works.
As a general rule, daily necessities are small items, such as cushion, sofa cover, stool, glasses, compact package, bag, etc. Most of needlework are flowers design, thread color is relatively simple. Due to the yarn quality is thick than silk and cotton, a sense of fluffy, thus make the floss images have calm, solemn style and artistic expression.
Shanghai woolen needlepoint tapestry are especially famous in the creation of foreign leaders tapestry portrait image, hailed as "the Oriental paintings". Shanghai woolen needlepoint tapestry art is famous at home and abroad, especially after the founding of China, on the varieties produced from the original can only slippers and bag piece develop to embroider various scenery, character and other large works of art. It with its clear image, rich color, clear hierarchy and stereo sense makes "Shanghai style" woolen needlepoint tapestry has unique artistic style.
Shanghai tapestry art reflects the theme of figures, landscapes, flowers and birds. In art form, it can perform the color profusion, hierarchy of complex oil painting and it can also be needlework image lifelike, contrast art photography. Woolen needlepoint tapestry can also be transplanted exquisite brushwork verve of Chinese ink and wash. Woolen needlepoint tapestry show these works of art, is not simple and mechanically copying, but according to its material and its special process to create again.
The famous woolen needlepoint tapestry artists are Liu Peizhen, Gao Wanyu, Zhang Meijun, etc. Liu Peizhen use woolen needlework portrait and it is the first Chinese tapestry. Representative works are: "Gorky", "Moscow University", "Fight Against Winter Palace", "Lenin Announced The Formation of A Soviet", and so on. Gao Wanyu reforms floss process for the first time for dyeing, color matching, makes woolen thread color increase from fixed dozens to nearly one thousand kinds, and use of brake line, color matching, color techniques, such as solving the needlework portrait color transition problem. Chinese woolen needlepoint generally used the needlework techniques. Her representative works are: "The Beloved Premier Zhou", "Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling", etc. Zhang Meijun works of art is characterized by rich color level, depict, vivid and exquisite character. Representative works are "Nehru and Premier Zhou", "The Venue of first congress of CPC", "South Lake Memorial Ship", etc.
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