Zigong folk paper-cutting artist—Xiang Shengxiang
Xiang Shengxiang has been exploring pearls in his paper-cutting career for more than half a century. In the 1980s, he explored a new art variety - paper tearing, and his works are sold far and wide. foreign. Tear-off paper works are not suitable for delicate depiction of objects. They show a simple and rough style. In particular, the edges of objects torn out by tearing paper will not appear rounded, but will contain the fibers of the paper itself, forming a simple decorative interest.
Tearing paper is also an extremely difficult challenge for paper-cut artists, because before creating a general paper-cut work, the artist can sketch a sketch of the work and then modify it before making it, while tearing paper requires the artist to have deeper artistic skills. Basic skills. During the process of tearing paper, you have to fully grasp the shape and expression of the object, so this is extremely difficult. However, Xiang Shengxiang is very comfortable with this form of artistic expression. He picks up all kinds of paper and tears it into a wonderful torn-paper painting in just a few minutes. His works feature landscapes, flowers and birds, figures, animals, Most of the twelve zodiac signs.
The shape is concise and expressive, and the lines are smooth and vivid. It may resemble traditional Chinese painting, portrait bricks, watermark woodcuts, tie-dye, rubbings, or even some trendy abstract paintings, which are both simple and colorful. He has incorporated different artistic techniques into his works in an eclectic and harmonious way, giving people a sense of style. A kind of "returning to simplicity" beauty. Tear-off paper works are more appreciative of the creative process than other paper-cut works. While appreciating the works, you can see a complete piece of paper being torn with bare hands into some realistic objects, which has a very dynamic display effect, just like in modernist paintings. action painting. In October 1992, Xiang Shengxiang was invited to perform in Singapore. Singapore National Television and Lianhe Zaobao introduced his paper tearing art. A few ordinary pieces of paper, once Xiang Shengxiang tore them apart with his hands, their worth doubled immediately, ranging from hundreds to hundreds.Yuan, sometimes tens of thousands of Yuan. In his more than 30 years of paper-tearing career, Xiang Shengxiang created nearly 5,000 pieces of paper-tearing paintings and sold about 3,000 pieces. Hundreds of his works have been collected by tourists from more than ten countries and regions including Russia, the United States, Britain, Germany and Italy.
