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Yilong paper-cutting represents folk paper-cutting artists

Yilong paper-cutting represents folk paper-cutting artists Yilong paper-cutting represents folk paper-cutting artists

Yilong folk paper-cutting has a long history, contains ancient cultural connotations, and has simple and natural artistic characteristics. In the past, Sichuan paper-cutting was mostly seen on wedding notes and embroidery patterns, and paper-cutting creations were rare. Yilong paper-cutting is different from the "innocent and profound" northern paper-cutting, and also different from the "exquisite and translucent" southern paper-cutting. In terms of technique, it is not as bold as northern paper-cutting, nor is it different from the meticulous carving of southern paper-cutting. Instead, the rough is fine and the fine is thick, forming a unique style of "fullness, exquisiteness, elegance and integrity".


Representative of folk paper-cutting: Mrs. Zhang Subi, a famous female farmer paper-cutting artist. She started acupuncture when she was young. She went to the market town to buy some favorite patterns and came back to learn acupuncture. By the age of twelve or thirteen, she could do it herself. Cut out paper-cut "patterns" at will, relying on the combination of your own intuitive impression of objective things and the simple and unpretentious ideals in your heart, so as to give full play to the free expression form without sticking to the rules and without any artificiality, thus forming a "full, exquisite and elegant" style. "Chunzheng" unique style, her works are full of the bold courage and simple and healthy feelings of the working people. The paper-cutting art themes she creates have primitive prototypes without losing the local flavor of Sichuan paper-cutting. They are praised by experts as "national treasure". His representative works include "Hundred Butterflies" and "Auspicious Patterns".


Yilong paper-cutting represents folk paper-cutting artists


The inheritor of paper-cutting, retired worker Zhu Yiren, has used his working time to study the folk art of paper-cutting for many years. His works are exquisitely carved and his knife skills are smooth. After his modification, drawing, summary and refinement, he has created successively Excellent works such as "Historical Figures", "Guanyin Pictures", "Auspicious Patterns".


He Xiaoding, the successor of paper-cutting and carving, works in the Yilong County Health Law Enforcement Brigade. He has used his spare time for many years to learn the art of paper-cutting and carving from old folk artists. The paper-cutting works created by his carving knife are from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside. The work is meticulous and rough, all well-proportioned, light and neat, and the joints between the knives fit perfectly without leaving any knife marks, no edges, no burrs, and no distortion. After his carvings and drawings, you can tell that he is first-class. of superb sculpting hands. His works include "Pine Eagle Picture", "Hundred Years of Life" and other fine works.


He Xiaoqiang, the inheritor of paper-cutting, is a member of the Chinese Folk Paper-cutting Research Association and a member of the Provincial Artists Association. Under the influence and cultivation of his father Mr. He Zuolin (associate research librarian of Qunwen and folk arts and crafts artist) since childhood, he has loved the national paper-cutting art. He diligently studied the traditional Chinese folk paper-cutting skills, practicing day and night for 30 years, and finally "enlightened" it. Xiao Qiang can cut with his bare hands and do as he pleases, achieving the artistic state of "what the heart delivers will be what the hands come out of". The paper-cut works made by Xiaoqiang knife have full compositions, simple shapes, both form and spirit, distinctive styles, lively and interesting, and fine cutting work. The pictures are symmetrical and balanced, exaggerated and deformed, and have decorative compositions. The works are based on traditional paper-cutting. , absorbing the expression methods of modern art, penetrating and combining with each other. The works have strong national and contemporary characteristics, showing a galloping and enterprising national spirit. An old painter praised: Xiao Qiangs paper-cutting, the unity of nature and man, the blending of things and myself, the opening and closing of yin and yang, the unity of diversity. Won the "gold medal" at the 5th China Art Festival. His representative works include "One Hundred Examples of Life Totem Series" and "Bashan Market Day".


He Xiaoyu, the inheritor of paper-cutting, works in China Unicom Nanzhong Company. He loves the folk art of paper-cutting and is known as the "flower-cutting girl" in northern Sichuan. With a pair of dexterous hands, he uses the marks and images of nature and human society as materials, uses colorful techniques, and combines cutting, pricking, tearing, splicing and pasting to create the colored paper-cut works "Hundred Heroes" and "Bashan". "Going to market". Tao Runqing, a rising star of paper-cutting, is a student at school. She has learned paper-cutting skills from He Xiaoqiang, a paper-cutting cadre of the cultural center, since she was a child. She has practiced basic skills diligently and developed a pair of skillful hands. Her works are not restricted by any restrictions. She can freely use her imagination to create a large number of works. Her representative works include " Butterfly Doll".