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The unique modeling language of Chinese folk paper-cut art

The unique modeling language of Chinese folk paper-cut art The unique modeling language of Chinese folk paper-cut art

Paper-cutting art shows us a colorful art world. Different times, different spaces, land and water, motion and stillness, humans, gods, birds and animals can be gathered together to form a whole. This kind of arbitrary, relaxed and free creation Its unimaginable.


This kind of unreasonable aesthetic creation, if we equate the form and composition of paper-cut art with childrens art and primitive art, it will obviously be biased to view the art of paper-cut art with innocence and naivety. The "having something in mind" and "drawing whatever you like" in the art of paper-cutting shows that the subjective creation of paper-cutting art is conscious and conscious, and paper-cutting artists have a clear understanding of what they want to express.


The unique modeling language of Chinese folk paper-cut art


The art of paper-cutting has established its own unique modeling language. The modeling rules of paper-cutting patterns are not based on the reproduction of objective reality. Unlike Western artistic modeling, which focuses on the true imitation of objective objects, it focuses on a kind of conceptual modeling. . This kind of conceptual modeling language takes the art of paper-cutting to a higher level with the help of symbolic connotations.