Paper-cutting and modern art installations
Since Marcel Duchamp displayed his shocking "ready-made" art in the 1910s, installation art has gone through a rough journey for more than 80 years. Many modern art styles that were produced at the same time or later, like meteors passing by, ceased to exist as independent art forms in a few years at least or ten or twenty years at most. However, installation art is still in the Western world to this day. He has taken the lead in annual art exhibitions around the world, and even in contemporary Chinas avant-garde art exhibitions and other social art activities, becoming a beautiful landscape in the history of modern art. The Duchamp "inscription" we are most familiar with is "adding" a goatee to the Mona Lisas face. In China, since the New Wave in 1985, many domestic artists have also created many works, such as "The Earth Is Red" in which many red umbrellas are "bundled and scattered" side by side in the park, and cattail fans are "scattered" in the lake of the Summer Palace. "Wind Lotus", "Media" which "pasted" old newspapers with cloth shoes, dishes and other daily necessities.
Many people think that paper-cutting and installation are two unrelated art forms, but as long as these two concepts are mentioned, we have to talk about the paper-cut installation art works of Lu Shengzhong of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. After many years of research on folk paper-cutting, Collecting and researching, he combined folk paper-cutting art with modern installation art, created many internationally famous works, and became an avant-garde modern art master in China. His works include: "First Meeting" in New York, USA in 2000, "Goodbye Witch" in Equatorial Township, Xunyi, Shaanxi Province in 2000, "Origin" in Grenoble, France in 2002, "Red Soul Shape and Shadow" in Guangzhou in 2002, 2003 "The Artistic Conception of Peace" and so on.
The "Conjuring" series uses the traditional bun doll shape as a creative element, enlarging it in the shape of a red man, and contrasting the negative shapes that are often abandoned in the paper-cutting process with the positive shapes. Made into two shapes, positive and negative, the visual effect of one yin and one yang makes the work extraordinary; in terms of exhibition method, the juxtaposition of negative and positive shapes creates a sharp contrast. The works are either upright on the grass or posted on moving objects. ofThe elevator door is even suspended in the train carriage with a large number of small red figures of different sizes. The presentation method of the work is no longer static, thus changing the shape of time and space, and the work itself has a sense of movement. The display combinations of little red figures from small to large, from one to tens of thousands, reveal the original connotation of life. Life and death are a pair of contradictory unity, expressing the desire for life and the fear of death, which is Chinas The traditional philosophy of "harmony between man and nature" is reflected in the art of paper-cutting, which is the regional original cultural attribute of local folk customs. What is extracted on this basis is the sublimation of folklore phenomena into the contemporary context. It will not only be more tenacious and difficult to mutate, but also enable the traditional cultural connotations of each nation to still present their own characteristics, thus achieving long-term continuation. and save. Breaking the boundaries of time and space, traveling exhibitions from China to around the world is a continuous expansion and extension of artistic concepts, and artistic concepts are also constantly changing.
In addition to the paper-cut installations made by Mr. Lu Shengzhong, there are also some works that combine animation and paper-cut, and works that combine lighting and paper-cut, which enrich the modern decoration techniques and provide us with materials to create more excellent works. There are also some such modern art works that use the characteristics of paper-cut hollowing or yin and yang to combine the creative shapes with modern high-tech materials to create some works with a strong sense of the times.
To summarize the penetration of the art form of paper-cutting in ancient and modern designs at home and abroad, paper-cutting is increasingly associated with artistic design forms. By learning and mastering the artistic characteristics of paper-cutting, artists gradually realize that the simple and unpretentious decorative features of paper-cutting are used in all walks of life. Developments in the field of art and design bring new feelings to design and add luster to the design field.
