He Xuan's home is close to school, but he seldom goes home. Even on holidays, he often stays in the staff dormitory. I once asked him why he didn't enjoy the comfortable life at home. He smiled. Who doesn't want to go home? But he thinks it is more convenient for those who need guidance to stay here close to the students. He also felt relieved. He also said that online communication has certain limitations. Sometimes it is difficult for students to express their ideas clearly. If they don't go home, they can visit at any time, and he can also use his spare time to lead students to contact with social design work. Wuhan new people. Such a good teacher won the second prize of the school-level teaching quality, which is really deserved!
Someone asked him, do you think it's worth it? What is not worth it? He is still the same sentence-they are my students, and I will be happy to see them succeed! He said he had feelings for Jiang Da. Before that, he was a student here. As a student, his rebellious publicity became a teacher. This is why he knows exactly what students want and what he should give them as a teacher. In 2007, the Platinum Creative Award was announced, and both his students and Kong were shortlisted. He is very happy. He said that his idea is simple, that is, I hope my love for my career can help those students who are full of passion and dreams.
On June 5438+1October 65438+July, 2008, He Xuan and Kong were invited to Shenzhen Art Museum to present prizes, and they brought back a beautiful crystal trophy, which belonged to Kong, the bronze medal winner of the poster design competition of the 26th Summer Universiade in Shenzhen and the 05-level graphic design class of Modern Art College, setting the highest level of winning prizes in the student design competition of Modern Art College so far. As a mentor, He Jiong became a witness of this honor, and also won the title of "15 Top Tutor" for the poster design of the 26th Universiade. Organized by the Organizing Committee of the 26th Summer Universiade, the contest invited internationally renowned designer Mr. Jin Daiqiang as the final judge. This poster contest is open to all college students majoring in art and design in China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). It is a heavyweight contest with 6,000 entries. He said: I am very pleased to see that the students I tutored won the prize.
It goes without saying that you can win such a grand prize. But when I asked about the process and feelings of winning this prize, He Jiong just kept sighing "very lucky"! He said with a smile that the instruction time for the revision of his work was only 40 minutes, and it took Kong less than 1 hour to complete the whole creation and drawing of the poster. According to the design cycle of completing a poster in four days, the submitted work that was completed in less than two hours was satisfied even if it won the Excellence Award in the competition, but this rapid design actually applied an old saying that it was unintentional. What kind of luck is this? Then he talked about another lucky collision of artistic thinking, which is the real reason why this work won the prize. Two days before the poster design competition was announced, the Universiade emblem was announced, and the elements in the emblem also used "bubbles". In this way, our poster coincides with the shape of the emblem and won the unanimous affirmation of six international judges. Facing this work, Mr. Jin Daiqiang said: Well done! This is the poster for the Universiade. This lucky coincidence is definitely the inspiration of artistic creation.
Indeed, it is luck to win the creative achievement award in a short time! Fortunately, the poster design elements coincide with the logo! However, luck is always ridiculed after success. Without deep accumulation over time, there will be no instant inspiration; If there is no accurate grasp of graphic language, how can there be such a wonderful creative "collision"? Art design should have aesthetic standards, and art design is a self-inspired and materialized personality behavior. So how should teachers handle and grasp the discretion in the process of guiding students to design works? This problem immediately aroused a strong sense of * * * in He Jiong, who said, "Besides students' own factors, teachers also play an important role in this process. It is very important for teachers to guide and distract students' thinking so that their design works can be recognized by the judges. From the perspective of forging an excellent designer, we should learn to constantly change and examine four social roles. These four roles are: self, judge, boss and customer. In the design, you are required to express your personality and creativity; The judges demanded the originality and innovation of the works; The boss requires employees to fulfill their design tasks with due diligence; Customers require that design works must bring profits. So an excellent designer must be a synthesis of four roles. For students, due to the lack of knowledge and the limitation of practical experience, teachers should cooperate with students to play these four roles when guiding works, demand students' originality with the strict standards of judges, test students' efficiency with the standard position of bosses, and examine students' creative value from the perspective of customers' market. It is easy to be an art design teacher, but it is not easy to be a good design teacher, which requires us to pay more for students in our work, which is our duty! "
In addition, He Jiong also revealed to us the regret of this competition. He said that the teacher liked Kong's works very much, and that his works should have belonged to the category of silver award, but because the Olympic logo used in the works involved many problems, he was finally awarded the bronze award. I asked He Jiong if he felt sorry for this, and he said with a smile, this is a typical case about how popular elements are used in style design. A series of publicity materials for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have become the most fashionable and popular elements in China. It is understandable to use the Olympic logo in the poster design of the Universiade, but how to improve it skillfully is a university's problem. He Jiong said frankly that style design and fashion itself are a contradictory body in which personality and * * * complement each other but contain each other. Style is the interpretation of individuality, and fashion is the pursuit of the public. Style is constantly updated to guide fashion, and fashion is constantly integrated with style and changed into new fashion. Style design can't be divorced from fashion, but it must go beyond fashion. Therefore, it is very important to balance the application scale of popular elements in artistic design individuality. As for the distribution of styles and fashions, it depends on personal experience and preferences. He said that he likes the famous fashion designer Chanel's words: "Fashion will eventually go out of fashion, only style will last forever." This is also one of the principles of his design creation.
In this regard, he said that it should be regarded as another level of harvest and a grateful plot. Any success or failure is an incentive, an incentive to constantly explore and surpass on the artistic road. But this bronze award of Kong is of great significance to the students who have just started. In his eyes, Kong is definitely not a student who wins by cleverness. However, with an artistic persistence and persistence, he kept painting, changing, denying and innovating, and finally won the battle with such a spirit of never giving up and going forward. This is worth learning, and as teachers, we should study more, constantly improve ourselves and bring out more award-winning students, and those award-winning students will become role models for the next or even the next students. "We need such a virtuous circle to enliven modern art. As teachers, we have a long way to go!" He spoke from the heart, and I saw the potential hope of a college.
He Jiong talked about his views on big and small competitions. He said that as a teacher, we should not only encourage students to show their works to the judges of each competition, but also encourage them to push their works to the society and let the society grade the designs. On June 5438+February, 2007, Wuhan held such a social design grading competition-creative market, which originated in Europe. This is an activity for many creative fans to collectively display their works of art. In that activity, He Xuan spent more than half a month organizing excellent creative works among students, including hand-painted wooden boxes, fashionable matches, personalized poker and so on. He rented a car from his pocket to take all the exhibits. They occupied the headlines of the current evening paper, and he won the title of "Creative Hope Star" in the creative market. Their works are very popular, and some of them are even sold out. In particular, his painting "2007 Pure Love Painting Poker" was very popular at the Expo. The prototype of this work "2007 Pure Love Painting Poker" is a beautiful and romantic love story he experienced personally. Love is an eternal topic in the world. In his own unique way, he painted the dribs and drabs of two people's experiences in love into a picture, and used this wonderful creation to share collective memories with everyone. The idea of this pair of poker is to commemorate a love. There are 54 cards, on which 54 couples' life experiences are drawn. Each picture is accompanied by the simplest words, some are lovers' whispers, some are grievances. These are all designs that are close to life and make people feel warm inside.
When I asked about the anecdote about the birth of this poker work, he said that it took him three nights to complete the whole creation of this work, which was very rapid in terms of the creation of artistic works. But this is not to catch up with the work, but because of irresistible creative enthusiasm. Because he is usually very busy, he seldom wants to make these emotional works of art, but during the National Day holiday in 2007, when he was at home alone and drawing casually with a pen, his inspiration suddenly came and he completed a full set of playing cards in one go.
Speaking of the appearance of this set of works, he said it was a very interesting process. At first, he didn't want others to know about these cards, because they were all personal experiences and relatively personal. Once, he went to the print shop to print out this card as a souvenir. Because the shopkeeper was not familiar with the operation of the printer, he printed a lot of waste products, either a few pages were missing or the color was wrong, and it took a whole day to fix them. Just after he left with his work satisfactorily, the shop assistant posted all the printed waste products at the door of the printing shop because he liked it. After that, students who go to that printing shop will stand in front of the works and have a look. Many students even asked the clerk for his QQ number because they liked it, telling him that they liked these works very much and hoped to print and publish them. Later, he contributed to this work and won the Bronze Award of Chutian Innovation Award in Hubei Province. There are many such examples. For example, his ceramic works "The Taste of China" and paper-cut works "The Great Sacrifice" are just pastimes he created in his spare time. As a result, they all won the Excellence Award in the 8th China Arts Festival. With these examples, he said that design comes from life and should be recorded in time when inspired by generate, which he often mentioned to students.
He Xuan brought the graduation design of 10 graduates. How to lead them to devote themselves wholeheartedly to the creation of graduation works and make exemplary graduation works is a very laborious process, but he expressed his confidence and must do it well! Because these students are the first graduates of the Institute of Modern Art, and the graphics teaching and research section has been entrusted with the heavy responsibility by the Institute and acted as the vanguard of this graduation exhibition, this graduation design exhibition is particularly important. He Jiong joked with me that the college gave him some of the most active graduates, which made him feel overwhelmed. A sentence that sounds like a complaint reveals a sense of pride, a sense of pride that teachers are most gratified to see students grow up.
He Xuan said that he attached great importance to the graduation design exhibition. In his mind, graduation design is the perfect curtain call for students who have experienced four years in college. What's more, it may be the last time in the design life, and it is completely unrestricted. Looking back on my graduation project, I moved all the recliners to the production workshop, rested on the recliners when I was tired, and continued to devote myself to the creation when I woke up, completely indulging myself in the inspiration of creation. It is a wonderful feeling to think about it. Many students are busy looking for jobs, so the quality of graduation thesis and graduation design can't be guaranteed. He is very worried about it. He said that students' graduation design must be on the right track. Although he didn't fill in for a month or two, he still stayed at school every day, which can solve some complicated things such as contacting graduates and filling out forms, and ensure that students have complete graduation procedures. But he asked the students to devote themselves to the graduation project, and he would never allow the graduation project to be the last regret of any student in college.
Jianghan University bears the beginning, enrichment, transcendence and persistence of his artistic path ... Today, he still flaunts his personality, while converging wisdom and depth in the interweaving of art and life. On the balance of freedom, he found the golden point of support, that is, everything is for students. He said that in career, the happiest thing in a person's life is to learn what he loves and love what he does. The career here refers to the road of art? Or the post of teacher? I don't know. Others asked him why he paid so much for his students, but he still smiled. "I think I should do this. I think I participated in many heavyweight competitions when I was a student, but I didn't make it into the top three. " Now that I'm a teacher, I can help students win prizes, which is to make up for my regret. "
He always expects his students to think more about creativity, do more design, persistently pursue the breakthrough and innovation of art design, and seriously think about and summarize the experiences and lessons in every success or failure. He will also continue to lead students to realize one idea after another, witness their growth and transformation every time, live better and design better, which is what he wants to see most. Finally, he sent a sentence to all his classmates, hoping to encourage them-the success of life is simple: at the age of 20, he has accumulated a lot of money; At the age of 30, I first showed my edge; Forty years old, the mainstay; The idol of 50-year-old young people ... I hope all students can stick to this road of design and get their own satisfactory results. He said this was what he wanted to see most.