Chinese art paper-cut
2 min readModern design often makes people combined closely with characteristicsof high-tech, fast pace, mechanization, and this real feature will undoubtedly bring a new aesthetic realm to human.
It makes people experience the power brought by a kind of new regular beauty and the rational color. However, from another perspective, design ideas which are indifferent, monotonous, stif, isolated and in economy polarism uand materialistic rationality will bring people into another cultural extreme. In essence, the ultimate goal of modern design is design’s care for human beings, and based on this point, the human spirituality, humanism thoughtand natural quality demonstrated in our traditional folk art will undoubtedly become an important and extensive treasure house of resources of modern design art.
From several major events that emphasise tradition and style, we can see the actual and ultimate goal of human pursuit. The British arts and crafts movement in the end of 19th century, the humanized product advocated by John Ruskin and William Morris; the idea of”the unity of technology and art”advocated by Bauhaus and Walter Gropius in the early 20th century; the artistic feeling of emotion, nature, personality, countryside’s freshness pursued by post-modernism design trend in 60’s and 70’s; in the period of highly developed information and technology, the strategic goal of sustainable development and the direction of multicultural developmentbecome the ideal of the common pursuit of mankind. The human beings striveto combine the times consciousness with the primitive culture of humanand the humanistic all the time. Theprogress of contemporary design and art is an integrated development trend that integrates all the aesthetic factors of all kinds of the humanities and the technology of science and the culture of all the times and regions.
Traditional folk art is the symbol of the human primitive culture, and the outstanding local art resource over the world is an important development source of the modern design and art, andthe spiritual communication between the modern design and art and the traditional folk art is the common need of the times and the mankind.
From the level of its unique cultural spirit, the Chinese folk art reflects the love for life, and is full of a strong mental characteristic. As a primitive culture, Chinese paper-cut shows a spiritual feature which is simple, natural and full of the exuberant vitality, and the huge wisdom of culture of itself will be the important treasure for the innovation and development of modern design. From the aspect of the expressiveform of art, Chinese paper-cut art reflects significance of the times which modern designers and artists pay attention to. Chinese paper-cut art is a typical imagery means of artistic expression, through this symbolic expression of manner, the artist’s subjective initiative, creativity and freedom romantic of poetic flavor can be showed to people very well, and this is a very precious thing for modern art.
