Xu ziyun (1946.0515-2020.06.05), a native of Yancheng, Jiangsu province, is a master of Chinese painting, a master of contemporary arts and crafts, a Shanghai master, a member of China Artists Association, a member of China Gongbi Painting Society and a full-time painter of China Painting Academy.
Xu made pots in the 1960s, and his teapot became famous all over the world. Influenced by Chen Mansheng and his works in the Qing Dynasty, Xu cooperated with painters such as Xie, Cheng Shifa and others to combine pot art with books, paintings and seals, and made many pots for painting and calligraphy. "Qin Quan Pot" cooperated with Professor Li from Taiwan Province Province, China, with the inscription "Perfect combination of pearls, perfect combination". This pot was edited and selected into the book Yixing Zisha Treasures.
At 6: 06 on June 5, 2020, Xu passed away at the age of 74.
Chinese name: Xu
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: Yancheng, Jiangsu
Date of birth:1May 94615th.
Date of death: June 5, 2020
Occupation: Master Hu Yi.
Representative works: Bundle of firewood, Three Friends Pot, Sleeping Weng Pot, Ruyi Ding.
Character experience
Early experience
Xu taught himself ceramic art, studied painting, and blended hundreds of paintings, which made the ceramic art world sit up and take notice. Collectors are lucky to have Hayes pots. His special pot to celebrate the return of Hong Kong fetched a high price of 250,000 yuan at Sotheby's auction company. He collected more than 1000 pieces of gray pottery pots from Yangshao culture to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, celadon and glazed porcelain pots from the Han Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty and the Sui and Tang Dynasties, celadon pots from the Song and Yuan Dynasties and various famous teapots from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
When Xu was a child, he fled to Shanghai with his mother. At the age of 10, he began to collect cinders to support his family. He pulled a scooter and worked as a tram conductor and carpenter. Joining the army was a turning point in his life. During his military career for several years, he came into contact with a large number of art books and was deeply attracted by the ancient traditional art in China. He began to wander around the stalls, spent a few cents to buy small pottery sculptures in Shiwan, and gradually became fascinated, focusing his interest on teapots.
join the army
When he joined the army in the late 1960s and worked as a cultural instructor in Guangkong, he began to drink tea under the influence of Chaoshan tea culture at that time. He likes collecting teapots. In the late 1970s, Xu returned to Shanghai from Guangzhou Air Force, and successively served as the chief of general affairs, food and students in Shanghai Public Utilities School. In the early 1980s, he began to teach himself purple sand pottery. Fortunately, he was taught and encouraged by Tang Yun, a famous Shanghai painter. Later, he worshiped at Tang Yun's door and became the old painter's closed disciple and his only pottery. Under your guidance, Xu's vision has been broadened, and he has reached a new height on the road of art, telling Xu that there is no shortage of artists in Shanghai.
Yixing creative
1984, he resigned from his public office, threw away his iron rice bowl and started the hard years of making teapot in Yixing, because he knew that to be an excellent teapot artist, he had to immerse himself in this piece of land made of purple sand. Since then, Yixing Zisha No.2 Factory has an unusual Shanghainese. Hard work pays off. Xu's hand-made purple sand dripping "Xia Yi" won the highest score and gold medal with 1985 in the first national ceramic works appraisal by the Ministry of Youth Industry. Later, this work was collected by the American Asian Art Museum. Since then, each of his works has become the purchase object of domestic and foreign teapot collectors.
During my stay in Yixing, as the assistant director of Yixing Zisha No.2 Factory, I participated in the construction and establishment of Yixing Zisha No.2 Factory while creating art. With the unique vision and economic mind of Shanghainese, he and the factory director Shi turned this small collective factory into one of the top ten township enterprises in China at that time. A "stranger" in Yixing is unprecedented in beauty. 1985, director Xu, director Shi, Wen Wei Po reporter Jin Xiaodong and others planned to hold the Yixing Zisha Folk Collection Exhibition in Hongkou Park, Shanghai. On June 1988, Xu held the first "Fuxing Tea Seminar" with people from all walks of life at home and abroad at his own expense. Nearly 100 tea friends from both sides of the Taiwan Strait attended the meeting. 1989, Xu held the first solo exhibition of Zisha ceramics in Singapore.
Return to Shanghai
After returning to Shanghai, he devoted all his spare time to the collection and production of teapot. His hand-made purple sand dripping "Xia Yi" won the highest score in Jingdezhen (1985) national ceramic works appraisal, and later this work was collected by the Asian Art Museum in the United States.
In the late 1980s, Xu left Yixing Zisha No.2 Factory and returned to Shanghai. He founded the earliest private museum in China at that time on the quiet Yuyuan Road, entertaining guests with tea and making friends with pots. 199 1 year, under the direct concern of the leaders of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, Xu built a pot museum in Xingguo Road, Changning District, Shanghai, which was among the best in scale and organizational system in Shanghai, and exhibited various pots from Neolithic age to modern times. At the same time, in order to promote the tea culture in China, he went to various places to give lectures and publicize for free, and donated a batch of ancient ceramics to museums in ceramics museum, Jiangsu Province and Jiading District. Down-to-earth work brings trust and honor. 1994 and 1996, Xu was awarded as a model of dual-use talents in Shanghai and was commended and rewarded by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government.
Xu has been developing tea culture unremittingly since 1990s. Therefore, with the strong support of Jiading District Government, he settled in Jiangqiao Town (now Xinjie) and opened the Baifo Garden, and moved the Hayes Ceramic Art Museum to Baifo Garden on the outer ring of Cao An Road, making new contributions to the cultural construction in Jiading District. In 2004, Hayes ceramics museum, located in Baifo Garden, was rated as one of the top ten folk museums in China.
Xu's talent as an entrepreneur is also revealed. He advocated the establishment of Zisha Association, held Yixing Zisha folk collection exhibition, and initiated the establishment of China Ceramic Cultural Relics Museum. His teapot with the seal of "laity" is favored by overseas collectors.
Start a company
1992, Hayes Tea Culture Development Company was established and Hayes ceramics museum opened. In September, 200 1 year, it covered an area of more than 30 mu and invested nearly 100 million yuan. It took nearly 20 years to build the "Hundred Buddha Garden". Shanghai Hayes Ceramic Museum, Hayes Ceramic Art Research Institute, restaurants, tea rooms, tea processing, teapot making workshops, kilns and other facilities are all over the park, forming a tea culture city integrating tourism, visiting, practice, teaching and ceramic research.
Couplets of related poems
Shen Weixu wrote a couplet:
All over the world,
Baifuguan tycoon pot.
Shen Weixu wrote a poem:
Often drink white Buddha tea,
Clear your heart and refresh yourself.
Thinking about clouds,
Entrepreneurship follows the dust of chivalrous men.
The life of the character
1May, 94615th, Xu was born.
1959 to 1960, cement worker and carpenter of Shanghai fourth construction engineering company.
From 1960 to 1964, he was the conductor of the first tram of Shanghai Public Transport Company.
1September 1964 to1July 1967, served as the monitor of the communication company of Huiyang Station of Guangzhou Air Force.
1July 1967 to1September 1969, he entered Vietnam to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Vietnam and served as the platoon leader of reconnaissance platoon.
1September 1969 to1September 19971September 1999, and returned to China as an instructor of Huiyang station security company.
197 1 to 1980 as the cultural officer of the 35th Division of Guangzhou Air Force.
From 1980 to 1984, before and after he was demobilized and transferred to Shanghai public utility school, he served as the chief of student section, general affairs section and catering section.
1984 to 1987, was hired as the assistant director of Jiangsu Yixing Zisha No.2 Factory.
1985, Xu's "Purple Sand Dripping Water" won the gold medal in the first national ceramic works appraisal held by the Ministry of Light Industry of China, and this work was later collected by the Asian Art Museum of the United States.
1987 to 1992 returned to Shanghai to establish Hayes Tea House Hayes Tea Culture Development Co., Ltd. Hayes Ceramics Development Co., Ltd. to establish Sihaiyao Zisha Tea Set brand.
From 65438 to 0989, he was invited to Singapore to hold his own exhibition of ceramic works.
1992, with the approval of the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Management Committee, Hayes Pottery Museum was formally established and opened to the public, and the construction of the Hundred Buddha Garden began at Cao An Road 1978 in Jiading.
In 2009, for the 20 10 Shanghai World Expo, the construction of Baifo Garden and Sihai Art Museum was completed and officially opened to the public.
On February 20 10, 2000 10, a purple sand "Expo Chinese Character Pot" was presented to Shanghai World Expo 20 10, which is a perfect combination of Chinese characters with thousands of years' history and traditional handmade purple sand craft in China.
At 6: 06 on June 5, 2020, Xu passed away at the age of 74.
Character works
Masterpieces: Bunch of firewood, Sanyou pot, Sleeping Weng pot, Ruyi Ding.
Award winning work: Xia Yi
The purple sand dripping water "Xia Yi" won the highest score in the first national ceramic works appraisal held by Jingdezhen Ministry of Light Industry and won the gold medal (1985). Later, this work was collected by the Asian Art Museum in the United States.
Anecdotes of characters
Among the teapot created by Xu, many pots are created for current events. At the beginning of 2009, he and the painter Jackie Lui planned, discussed and conceived the creation of Expo-themed purple sand works, and asked the painter Han Min to draw a picture of Laozi's Tea Tasting. Subsequently, Xu and his son Xu Zefeng led the disciples of Sihaiyao to create 18 gift jars for the Shanghai World Expo, which were appreciated by Chinese and foreign tourists during the Expo. It is reported that the whole set of Expo gift cans was taken away by collectors at an auction for 6.5438+0.8 million yuan.
He and Zhao Benshan became attached to tea five years ago, and they created the series of "Mountain and Sea Zisha Pots" hand in hand. Up to now, more than 30 kinds of "mountain and sea pots" have been created, two for each kind, one for Zhao Benshan and one for Xu. In the future, they will also launch 100 "mountain and sea pots" with novel styles and different shapes, each of which is made and painted by Xu himself and inscribed by Zhao Benshan. The two people work closely together, and each "mountain and sea pot" has the same signature of two people, and is equipped with a serial number certificate, so the collection value is self-evident.
Xu is not only a renowned master of Shanghai Zisha art at home and abroad, but also a legendary collector of ancient pots. In the Hayes Pot Hall he founded, more than 1000 pieces of teapot collected by him in Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties were exhibited. Among them, the treasure of the town hall "Daheng pot" was originally a family heirloom made by Shao Daheng specially for the Pan family in Yixing. Surprisingly, the pot drifted from one place to another with its owner without any damage. Later, the Pan family was short of money to build a house and was ready to sell the tycoon pot. After hearing the news, Xu, who is participating in the creation of Yixing Zisha Craft Factory, discussed with his wife Jin and rushed to Panjia to see the pot. After going through all kinds of hardships, he bought the tycoon's pot for 30 thousand yuan, which was not a small sum in the 1980 s Gu Jingzhou, a master of purple sand, spoke highly of the tycoon pot. He also made a special trip to Xu's home and offered to have a look at the tycoon's pot. This is Gu Jingzhou's last trip to Shanghai.