A brief description of the complete collection of folk paper-cut patterns
Paper-cut patterns are decorative patterns summed up by folk paper-cut artists in their long-term paper-cut practice to express specific things and beautify the surface of things. Traditional paper-cut patterns are a graphic art created by farming civilization and a product of folk life culture. This ancient and most folk graphic art contains many modern design concepts and artistic features.
Putting traditional paper-cut patterns into modern artistic creation, the graphic meaning it presents does not lack the artistic expression of modern language. By studying and learning from the unique graphic flatness characteristics, unique graphic ideographic characteristics and rich image decoration characteristics of traditional paper-cut patterns, we can discover the graphic context with Chinese cultural charm. Folk artists rely on their strong confidence in subjective consciousness to break through the superficial reality of objective phenomena to reconstruct a beautiful reality and reconstruct idealized and intuitive aesthetic images. That is to say, exaggerated deformation and non-exaggerated deformation of paper-cut patterns are the same thing. Cut by hand, it directly reflects the subjective nature and all objective inevitability hidden by the appearance.
For example, the paper-cut pattern shows a side face with two front eyes and a front mouth, and the patterns of young leaves, flowers and fruits are cut out on a tree at the same time. For another example, the pattern shows the life scenes in the house that are blocked by the wall, or the shape of the cubs gestating in the belly of the tigress.
