The use of paper-cut shapes in illustrations
The modeling system of the Folk Paper-cut Pattern Collection is determined by five factors including national and regional historical and cultural traditions as well as social customs, production, life, emotional temperament and aesthetic concepts. Chinese folk plastic art and folk paper-cut art have a complete artistic modeling system. In terms of modeling, it is neither determined by the traditional Western light and dark modeling system and art system, nor is it the Western modern modeling system of exaggerated and deformed body structures. But it is not the traditional Chinese line modeling system. Mr. Jin Zhilin proposed: "Paper-cutting is the third plastic art system independent of traditional Western modeling concepts and Chinese line modeling. It is a subjective intentional modeling concept."
This is a technique that tends to be realistic and originated from primitive rock paintings. The concrete technique is the basis of the intentional technique, and the intentional technique is the supplement of the concrete technique. The prototype expression technique of folk paper-cutting is concrete silhouette. It expresses objects through appearance and does not process the inner contour. Therefore, it pays attention to the general outline and is good at grasping the characteristics. The paper-cut artist first cuts out the shape of the object, and then through some inner processing, he randomly decorates the inside of the outline, thereby completing the creative process from concreteness to imagery. It is manifested in the facial makeup of characters, and the shapes of animals are silly and cute, which is in line with folk aesthetic psychology; the contradictions in the works are manifested in the illogical and laughable funnyness of the shapes; the virtual meaning is manifested in the pattern composition of the shapes And the meaning of borrowed things. In paper-cut creation, folk cultural concepts, regardless of history or reality, will simultaneously affect the subject of aesthetic creation from different angles. Folk artists will recombine and manage cultural and historical symbols in the creative process according to their own subjective requirements. With their unique imagination and superb expressive power, they will use abstraction, deformation and exaggeration and other modeling techniques, combined with points, lines and surfaces. , creating colorful and dazzling shapes.
Whether it is a traditional art modeling system that respects objectivity or a modern art modeling system that emphasizes subjectivity, Western art still simulates nature. No matter how exaggerated the deformation is, it is still an exaggerated deformation of the natural form. Whether it is the movement rhythm of Fauvist Matisses art, the decomposition of geometric shapes in Cubist Picassos art, or the geometric composition of Pollack, they are all deformations, compositions or decompositions of natural forms. ChinaOn the contrary, paper-cut art has its own unique modeling methods and expression techniques. It replaces natural intuitive perspective with "philosophical" concepts. They cut the human face from the side and the tiger from the side into two eyes, and also cut out the invisible side. They replaced the natural intuitive vision with the concept of essential rationality; they used the technique of converting one person, three faces and three emotions from the side to the front. It expresses Jiang Taigongs concentration on fishing, his joy when the fish takes the bait, and his laughter when the fish comes up. It expresses the continuous four-dimensional and five-dimensional space-time concepts in one painting; they use subjective modeling instead of natural anatomical modeling, "internal "Random decoration" is to add paper-cut patterns that fit the theme and are suitable, such as the patterns on pigs and cows, and the cubs in the belly of tigers, which are all manifestations of the authors subjective imagery. They cut the legs of the lying rabbit into four balls, and the legs of the wild goose into ribbons; they used subjective imagery to cut the natural tiger into two tigers with opposite personalities, and artificially endowed the tiger with various functions; they used meaningful Their decorations replaced natural forms, using lotus flowers instead of fish scales on the fish to show that the fish was in the water. They added a flying bird on the standing bird to remind people of the birds flight; they never followed the lines of the human anatomy to shape clothing patterns. Instead of organizing decorative patterns, use flowers to decorate clothing, or randomly cut out a few diamond-shaped patterns according to the movement, or randomly decorate with parallel lines in different directions.
In the creation of childrens picture book illustrations, because children have a strong interest in dynamic cartoons, and illustrations are still pictures, using the "technique of converting one person, three sides and three emotions from the side to the front" in the paper-cut shape will make the illustrations The still pictures in the work have a linkage effect, coupled with the unique language style of the characters, who are short and thick in stature, with a big head and a small body, will attract young readers, making them find the interest in the book and make them think associatively with young children. The cultivation of students plays a certain role, and it is also a flexible application of heuristic education. Applying paper-cutting to illustrations is not a simple appropriation, but should be separated from the shape, pattern, composition, and technique. Use modeling techniques to shape the characters and scenes of the work, use decorative patterns to embellish the theme, and use appropriate techniques. Illustration creation.
Chinese paper-cutting art adopts a head-up approach, whether it is a comprehensive composition or a single composition. It avoids complicated perspective relationships and facilitates exaggeration and decoration. Make the image of the picture simple and strong, and achieve a vivid and touching artistic effect.
