The humanistic characteristics of Shaanxi traditional folk paper-cutting
Shaanxi folk paper-cutting is rich in content, mostly based on characters, animals, buildings, flowers, scenes, folk operas and stories in daily life. Art originates from life but is higher than life. As a folk art form, paper-cutting, like literary works and painting art, in the entire creative process, the creator uses different characters, animals and other images to use various techniques to form artistic pictures with different meanings, conveying feelings through objects, and using objects to express feelings. Aspirations are used to express the authors unique understanding and aesthetic feelings, directly and boldly reflecting the objective world and ideal pursuit. Most of these paper-cuts are made by peasant women, with bold and exaggerated shapes, bold choices, concrete techniques, and abstract deformations, showing deep cultural connotations. The paper-cuts they create are full of rich earthy flavor and strong emotional color, without any artificiality, and have simple folk customs. Some have simple styles and general artistic conceptions, some are concise and simple with implicit meanings, and some are exquisitely crafted and have both form and spirit, fully demonstrating the origins of ancient human civilization and modern civilization, the folk customs and cultural landscapes on the loess, and the cultural landscape here. The peoples admiration for life, love for a better life and yearning for beautiful things.
Shaanxi folk paper-cutting is bold, exaggerated yet realistic in shape. The author can cut and carve it at will, but it also pays attention to ideas, which also reflects the regional cultural characteristics of Shaanxi and the character of the working people. temperament. They fully express their unique understanding of folk phenomena, their artistic thoughts and full feelings with the help of paper-cutting, a folk art form, and their proficient artistic skills. They do not simply use a form of thinking spiritual activity, but use perceptual materials to express spiritual things. They use common things in life to reflect their inner world, their ideals and pursuits through homophony, symbolism, exaggeration and other techniques. In the art world of paper-cutting, skilled folk craftsmen use their imagination to boldly depict everything in their ideals, creating unique and exaggerated artistic images vividly, summarily, and concisely, giving people a pure, simple, and fresh aesthetic feeling. , expresses ingenuity, novelty and beauty, appears bold and romantic, is original in conception and has great originality.
