The childish and innocent shapes in Chinese folk paper-cutting
Paper-cut artistic modeling has the characteristics of innocence and childishness. It inherits the modeling concepts of the primitive ancestors, and “its modeling specifications faithfully inherit the ‘unattainable model’ created by the primitive artistic modeling specifications.” The objects are naive and concise, possessing purity. The art of paper-cutting is shrouded in simple and mysterious colors, embodying the meaning of ancient times. This simple and concise shape also reflects the pursuit of modern art concepts. "The most primitive is often the most modern, and the most childish is often the most mature." ”
"Wu Song Fights the Tiger" Jiaozhou He Guilian
The artistic modeling of paper-cutting is consistent with the naive and simple thinking characteristics of children. "Childrens paintings have something in common with folk paper-cutting that embodies primitive concepts. What is most attractive about it is the freedom of creative consciousness and the nature of the art form." For example, "Wu Song Fighting the Tiger" cut by Jiaozhou He Guilian is childish and pleasant, and Wu Songs performance The figure is very small and looks like a human but not a human being. However, the image of the tiger mother is very tall, with round and bright eyes. It is really "all vivid in A Jian". The legs and tail are shaped to be strong and strong, and there are three cuts in her belly. Tiger cubs, the other two repetitive tiger cubs naturally nestle next to the tiger mother, giving people a unique beauty of innocence, simplicity and sincerity.
"Fish Doll" Shaanxi Pan Changwang
Paper-cutting artists have a very strong desire to express objects, just like children painting. What they cut is what they want in their hearts.The freedom of "acting according to ones will and stopping according to the mood" is a form of entertainment in which paper-cutting artists subjectiveize their lives. Among the paper-cutting patterns, "Fish Doll" and "Phoenix" are all created spontaneously and innocently. Paper-cutting art. The pictures are vivid and simple, with a rich flavor of life. Both characters and animals are cleverly brought to life. Paper-cutting is concise and summarized, with clear black and white, contrasting reality and reality, showing a childish and innocent beauty of shape. In terms of visual communication It has a strong sense of movement and tension. It can be seen that paper-cutting is not limited by objective reasoning, but is full of artists’ idealization of objective things, showing childlike innocence, simple and sincere emotional characteristics.
"Phoenix" Shaanxi Zhu Guanglian
Childish and innocent shapes are the vitality of paper-cutting art. Paper-cut works are often decorated with patterns when expressing objects, and the shapes of the patterns are mostly childish and innocent, making the works more simple. For example, Shaanxi Li Xiufangs paper-cut "Crouching Cow" and Hao Guizhens "Old Man Holding a Bird" use childish and innocent techniques to express their works. The former is decorated with flower-shaped patterns on the old cow, and the man in the latter work also wears floral clothes. In reality, there are no flowers on the cow, and there are rarely flowers on the mens clothes. However, in paper-cutting, in order to look good, they are often decorated A few flowers enhance the naive beauty of the picture and have a strong decorative meaning.
"Crouching Cow" Shaanxi Li Xiufang
It can be seen that the use of naive and naive modeling techniques can better reflect the simple and sincere aesthetics of window grille art. Of course, although some images may not completely conform to the aesthetic sense of form and may seem childish, they are beautiful in art. They reflect the author’s strong inner thoughts, feelings and aesthetic tastes, and are “works that show the external and internal reality” (Rodin language). In short, the naive and naive modeling characteristics in paper-cut works are not a simple list of images, but express a situation deep in the paper-cut artists heart, containing the creative subjects deeper understanding and grasp of the objective world and his spiritual appeal.beg.
"Old Man Holding a Bird" Shaanxi Hao Guizhen
