Shaanxi folk paper-cutting in pursuit of perfect shapes
Paper-cut works are full of praise for life and the world, and show compliance with the laws of formal beauty. Generally speaking, Chinese people have a psychological tendency to seek perfection and beauty, and like to see perfect pictures. , the joyful atmosphere is influenced by the Chinese thinking habit of "response between heaven and man", and considers "heaven, earth and man" as a whole. This way of thinking determines the modeling method of paper-cutting.
Paper-cutting is a decorative art that strives to express two-dimensional effects in a two-dimensional space. Therefore, folk paper-cutting artists give full play to their true and pure artistic nature, break the shackles of the objective world, and create multi-angle, multi-directional, and multi-level Express the artistic object in his mind. In order to pursue the integrity of its appearance and bring visual impact and association to people, several characteristics of an object are often displayed at the same time, or the characteristics of several objects are comprehensively displayed in the same picture, making the picture more unique. Decorative effect.
The paper-cutting master Ku Shulan is famous for her ability to cut "flower-cutting ladies". In her works, you can see the eyes on the front and the nose on the side. When talking about this point, an artist asked Ku Shulan: "Why do the mouths of the profile portraits you cut out always be upright?" "Well, what about the mouth? What other upright and side faces are there?" This answer shows that the paper-cut artist breaks with nature. There are objective laws and limitations of time and space, but the purpose is to express a perfect image in the heart. Paper-cut artists break through the visual time and space of the objective world, and depict the world in their minds with unrestrained passion through continuous and dynamic thinking. As long as it can achieve beautiful effects, it can break through the constraints of form and color to express the world as it pleases. The cleverness of folk paper-cutting artists lies in making great use of the limitations of paper-cutting. Ride up the mountain within limitations and make the impossible possible.
In paper-cut works, symmetrical and continuous patterns and the layout of "four dishes and one soup" can be said to be common. Among these suitable patterns, a flower, a leaf, or a geometric pattern symbol will be inadvertently added around or in a certain blank space. The purpose is to make the picture complete and express the object.Full of vitality, this is also one of the requirements for perfect modeling.
