Huang Yongyu

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Huang Yongyu Statue in Huang Yongyu Art Museum, Jishou University, Xiangxi, Hunan Be born August 9, 1924 (August 9) Phoenix County, Hunan Province, China Pass away June 13, 2023 (98 years old) Nationality People's Republic of China Well-known works Monkey ticket

Huang Yongyu (August 9, 1924 - June 13, 2023, ,pen name Huang Xing Bin, Huang Niu, Niu Fuzi) was a Chinese artist and scholar of the Tujia ethnicity, from Phoenix, Hunan Province. Chinese painter, former professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he once served as the head of the Department of Printmaking. Huang Yongyu's wife was Zhang Meixi, and his cousin is Shen Congwen, a Chinese writer.

All one's life

Huang Yongyu was born on August 9, 1924 (the ninth day of the seventh month of the lunar year). Due to his poor family, he went out to make a living at the age of 12. He was exiled to small porcelain workshops in mountainous areas of Anhui and Fujian to work as a child labourer, and later moved to Shanghai, Taiwan and Hong Kong. At the age of 14, he began to publish works. Later, he mainly began to focus on printmaking. His unique printmaking works are well-known at home and abroad. At the age of 16, he began to make a living by painting and wood carving. He once served as a small worker in the porcelain field, a primary school teacher, a middle school teacher, a family education librarian, a trainee art member of the troupe, a newspaper editor, a film screenwriter and a professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a vice chairman of the China Artists Association, the ninth consultant of the China Artists Association , He worked in the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, worked in the same office as Jin Yong, and Huang Yongyu was the art editor .

Huang Yongyu returned to Beijing from Hong Kong with his wife Zhang Meixi in 1952 and was assigned to work in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has successively served as an associate professor, professor, vice chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, etc. In 1956, Huang Yongyu Wood Carving Collection was published, and his representative works "Spring Tide" and "Ashma" once caused a sensation in the Chinese painting world. During the Cultural Revolution, especially during the "black painting" campaign, the Gang of Four accused of being a reactionary academic authority was criticised until the fall of the Gang of Four .His painting "Owl" is listed at the top of the "Black Painting Exhibition" , and it is documented that this work is characterised as "Tianzi No. 1 counter-revolutionary black painting" .

Huang Yongyu has held painting exhibitions in Australia, Germany, Italy, mainland China and Hong Kong, and his artistic achievements are well-known at home and abroad. Huang Yongyu has been awarded a number of Italian medals by the Italian government for his outstanding contributions in the cultural exchanges between China and Italy. His works were exhibited in Hong Kong Times Square in July 2007

Works

Huang Yongyu has created works in printmaking, Chinese painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, stamp design, etc. Painting has strong Western painting elements, but it is also famous for its Chinese painting charm. Huang Yongyu is also an excellent poet. The folk, colloquial style and simple poetic style in his poems are very unique and touching.

His works include the zodiac stamp monkey ticket, and literary works include "Yongyu Six Records", "Wu Shimang Forum", "Wife, don't cry", "These melancholy debris", "Along the Seine River to Fei Leng Cui", "Landscape under the Sun", "The Wandering Man of the Wucho River" and His architectural design works include "Yu's Mountain House" and "Zhuang Cuilou" in Phoenix County, "Half House in the Mountain" in Hong Kong, "Wan He Tang" in Tongzhou, Beijing, and "Innumerable Villa" in Florence, Italy .

The Chinese logo of the clothing brand Giordano is inscribed by Huang Yongyu. In addition, the full package of alcoholic wine was also designed by Huang Yongyu .

Honor

Olympic Art Award

- Huang Yongyu won the Olympic Art Award awarded by the International Olympic Committee (Beijing, China, August 24, 2008 morning)

- At the successful conclusion of the 29th Olympic Games, Roge, President of the International Olympic Committee, He Zhenliang, Chairman of the Culture and Education Committee of the International Olympic Committee, presented the "Olympic Art Award" of the International Olympic Committee to Huang Yongyu, a famous Chinese artist, and enthusiastically praised him. Outstanding contributions to the development of world art. This is also the first time that the "Olympic Art Award" has been awarded to Chinese artists.

On the occasion of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Huang Yongyu specially created a huge work "China = MC2" for the Olympic Games, which formed a tall tree with the lines of five-ring colour changes, symbolising the prosperity and development of the modern Olympic movement, the unity of the Olympic family and the accumulation of China in hosting the Olympic Games. Extreme action.

Foreign medals and medals

• Medal of Meritorious Commander of the Italian Republic (Italy, announced on December 27, 1985)

• Medal of Commander of the Italian Unity Star (Italy, announced on May 30, 2005, awarded at Wanhe Hall in Beijing on March 14, 2006 )

• Italian Star Knight's Grand Cross (Italy, announced on May 24, 2019 , awarded in Beijing on May 20, 2021 )

Dispute

On September 8, 2022, the special stamp manuscript of the Year of Gui Mao was released, which was designed by Huang Yongyu. According to the explanation of China Post, the first special stamp of Gui Maonian "describes a wise rabbit with a pen in his right hand and a letter in his left hand in an ingenious blue colour, as if it is conveying the good wishes of the New Year to people". However, after the release of the stamp manuscript, it was questioned by netizens that the rabbit was painted as "demon in the demon", which was not cute enough . However, some people praised Huang Yongyu's design, such as painter Han Meilin's praise for Huang Yongyu's novelty and bold design . Hong Xinliang, a special commentator of Qianjiang Evening News, believes that the root cause of this incident is not Huang Yongyu, and the person who selected Huang Yongyu to create the "Year of Gui Mao" stamps also pointed out that the design of the zodiac stamps related to the annual topics should be publicised in advance and checked by the audience . On January 5, 2023, at an event sponsored by China Post Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Branch and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum in Nanning, Guangxi, a mascot based on a blue rabbit appeared in the venue, which once again aroused doubts among netizens. The staff of Guangxi Museum said that they had received a feedback from parents about the blue rabbit mascot, and said that they did not know the activity process and had removed the mascot .