Master's teens

The late artist Huang Yongyu left his native town in Fenghuang, Hunan province, in 1937, and reached Xiamen, Fujian province, to attend Jimei Middle School, where his uncle taught. He often skipped classes and indulged himself in reading at the school library. He lived in southern Fujian for years which provided him a temporary shelter during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).Huang wrote down his recollections of this period of time on an ink painting he made for an exhibition of his woodcuts in Xiamen, that opened on June 10. He passed away three days later. Forceful Cuts, now running at the Art Museum of China Profiles, through to Sept 17, shows Huang's endeavors in woodcut art. The form was the first art genre Huang picked up to support himself when he had a dream to become a professional artist. His woodcuts embody a keen assessment of human nature, with wit and humor. The exhibition was first presented by the Beijing Fine Art Academy at its art museum in 2020, and it then toured Shanghai and Jiangsu province. Huang once said he lived every day in the same serious way as he worked on wood, "paying great attention to every cut and fearing making mistakes".

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