Yang Luoshu
Lineage & School of Heritage
He was born into a family of New Year painters and is the fourteenth-generation inheritor of the Yang family's Yangjiabu New Year pictures.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of the Han ethnic group, born in 1927 in Yangjiabu Village, Shandong. In 1951 he began learning the craft of woodblock New Year picture production from his father. Through his father's verbal instruction and personal example, and through his own diligent effort, he mastered the entire process of Yangjiabu woodblock New Year picture production, and he is especially skilled at block carving. From 1952 to the present he has produced woodblock New Year pictures at the Tongshunde Painting Shop in Yangjiabu, and from 1989 to 1993 he gave block-carving demonstrations at the Yangjiabu Folk Art Park. His carving technique is masterly, with exaggerated forms, full compositions, brilliant colors, and a plain and archaic vigor. He originated the carving formula that the tip of the blade must possess the eye and the finger joints must be nimble and sensitive, and he has made outstanding contributions to the preservation, transmission, and creation of Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures. The Tongshunde Painting Shop he operates possesses eight hundred sets of printing blocks and employs twenty specialists in painting, carving, printing, and mounting, with an annual production capacity of about one million sheets. His representative works are block prints of the Four Great Classical Novels.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Yangjiabu Woodblock New Year Pictures, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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