The impact of regional visual design development on folk paper-cutting
Northern Shaanxi continues to advance in the wave of economic development. The economic level has increased significantly in recent years, but some folk culture has been slowly abandoned over time. Especially with the continuous popularization of the internationalization of modern design, Western culture has swept across the land of China with an unstoppable trend. More regions have participated in international integrated design. my countrys design trends have also basically become Westernized, losing their national characteristics and characteristics. In essence, traditional folk art has gradually fallen into a very embarrassing situation.
Japanese graphic designer Nagai Kazumasa once expressed concern about this situation when he was inspecting art design in China, and frankly said to his Chinese colleagues: "When I look at Chinas modern design, I feel that you are not interested in traditional art. Cherishing traditional art too much, to the point of directly using patterns in designs." He politely described Chinese designers who copied traditional patterns in design works without consideration as "cherishing traditional art too much." In fact, he saw that we have Lack of understanding of art and design traditions or lack of experience in how to deal with traditional things in modern design.
The development of regional design in northern Shaanxi is similar to that of the whole country. Because it is located in the inland northwest plateau, there is relatively little understanding of design. The rapid economic development is still in the development stage for the design content and design regional characteristics of this region. While the design is developing, it does not conflict too much with traditional folk art, but in terms of content, it does lose the development of folk paper-cutting art. Many people, especially some folk paper-cutting people, have given up their beloved paper-cutting in order to support their families and engage in other market-oriented businesses. As a result, the number of folk artists has decreased, and the inheritance and revival of folk paper-cutting has been in stasis.
In the development of regional design in northern Shaanxi, there have also been some design works that use local folk paper-cutting as design elements. However, in general, they are just blind copying of patterns, patterns, symbols and graphics. Losing the essential meaning of design not only failed to play a good supporting role in the regional design of northern Shaanxi, but also greatly reduced the cultural connotation of the folk paper-cutting art itself.
