Description of the theme and comprehensive artistic style of Yimeng folk paper-cutting
Yimeng folk paper-cutting tools
If you want to make ideal paper-cutting, you must first have handy tools. As the ancients said: "If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools." That is to say, scissors, carving knives, wax boards, staplers, paper, etc. can be solved so that the production can be carried out smoothly and a certain artistic effect can be guaranteed.
Yimeng folk paper-cut style
The style of Yimeng paper-cutting is simple, simple and bright. This technique represents the simple thoughts and feelings of our countrys working people and maintains a very typical folk tradition. It focuses on expressing common themes in life, such as chickens, cows, horses, rats, tigers, etc., poultry animals that people are familiar with.
The meaning of Yimeng folk paper-cutting
There are many patterns in Yimeng paper-cutting that reflect happiness, peace, happiness, and auspiciousness. These contents are very cleverly conceived. Many of them are homophonic with auspicious sentences, or with auspicious meanings and metaphors. This metaphorical homophonic technique is folklore. It is an artistic language. If metaphors are not used in sentences, but straightforward descriptions, it will feel dull and boring. Therefore, we use the method of entrusting things with meaning or giving auspiciousness, and use those natural things that can arouse peoples emotionally healthy resonance and beautiful images to induce peoples beautiful emotions and associations, making people feel vivid, vivid, and catchy. For example, plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos, and chrysanthemums represent the four seasons; peonies represent wealth; mandarin ducks and lotus flowers represent the harmony of husband and wife, and so on.
Peach in Yimeng folk paper-cutting
There are many messy things in nature. After artistic processing, they are unified and transformed into the desired effect. For example: the peach itself is very simple, but adding longevity patterns and zigzag patterns on the peach turns the peach into a beautiful and lovely longevity peach.
In Yimeng paper-cutting, he is good at using concise, bright and simple techniques to express various objects. Most images in nature are trivial and must be simplified, retaining the most important and essential parts and removing useless things. But simplicity does not mean simplicity, otherwise it will feel boring and incomplete. likeCut a tree and there are thousands of leaves. After conciseness, it becomes a cluster of leaves on each trunk, and each cluster of leaves has several large leaves, so that the overall composition can feel complete.
Because the shapes, materials, tools, and expressions of paper-cut art are different from other art forms, it is not convenient to express overlapping and complex scenes, buildings with a strong sense of perspective, and does not emphasize light and shadow, sketch effects, and natural colors. It should be a true reflection of the art of paper-cutting, and should fully reflect the simple, concise, bright and decorative characteristics of the art of paper-cutting. It is very important that paper-cutting should have its own special expression means and methods in image shaping and decoration processing. This is the use of decorative patterns. These patterns are stylized shapes and beautified images. The more typical and representative ones include zigzag pattern, crescent pattern, etc.
