Brief Introduction of Paper-cut Art Content of Paper-cut Art

1. Paper-cut art is one of the oldest folk arts in China. As a hollow art, it can give people a sense of visual emptiness and artistic enjoyment. Paper-cutting uses scissors to cut paper into various patterns, such as window grilles, doormats, wall hangings, ceilings and snuff. Every holiday or wedding celebration, people will stick beautiful and bright paper-cuts on windows, walls, doors and lanterns at home, and the festive atmosphere will be more enthusiastic. In rural areas, paper-cutting is usually done by women and girls. In the past, paper-cutting was a handicraft art that almost every girl had to master, and it was also a standard for people to judge brides. The paper-cutting art in the north and south of China can express all kinds of joys and sorrows in life through a pair of scissors and a piece of paper.

2. As the carrier of primitive art, paper-cutting always uses exaggeration and deformation in modeling. It is good at combining objects in different time and space, changing the nature and shape of objects through exaggeration and deformation, and then changing the standard of the usual natural prototype.