The use of modern themes in Zigong folk paper-cut art
In recent years, Zigong paper-cutting has gradually moved towards innovation. The innovation of Zigong paper-cutting is not like some so-called new modern paper-cuttings, which have lost their own beautiful artistic language and finally become imitating. Zigong paper-cutting not only continues regional and national characteristics, but also incorporates new elements, absorbs other excellent art forms, and uses modern themes to push paper-cutting to a higher stage. In the Shen Chenglin Cutting Workshop, there is an area dedicated to the exhibition of paper-cut works with modern themes. There is a three-panel "Pictures of Beautiful Women", which uses the pictures of beautiful women printed on the wall calendar, and then uses the painting shape to express the background with the artistic technique of paper-cutting. Come out, on the traditional paper-cut background, a living beauty playing the pipa appears vividly on the paper-cut work.
In addition to "Beauty Pictures", there are also many silhouettes of characters that Master Shen Chenglin is good at in the cutting workshop. These paper-cutting works are very modern and very different from traditional paper-cutting, but they are full of life and outline the side silhouettes of the characters. Lifelike. This paper-cut production method is to first outline the characters on the paper and then cut the paper, which requires the artist to have stronger art and painting skills. In addition to Shen Chenglin, Master Yu Manbai also produced many paper-cut works with modern themes in his early years, the most representative of which is "Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge".
The construction of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was exciting for the country at that time. It was the first railway and highway bridge built by China on the Yangtze River. It is of certain historical significance that Yu Manbai used it as an expression object. It uses a large number of straight lines to express the indestructibility of the bridge, and uses curved and smooth curves to depict the sparkling water of the river. The ships, fishing boats, and punters under the bridge are a busy scene, recreating the scene after the completion of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. Bustling scene. In 2008, as the Olympic Games in China, paper-cutting artist Lin Liqing also created aA paper cut of "Birds Nest". The main body of the Birds Nest has a strong sense of lines, and there are five Fuwa dolls at the top of the picture. Paper-cuts with modern themes as content are appearing more and more.
