What kinds of flower materials are often needed for oriental art flower arrangement? What are their respective roles? What should we pay attention to in practice?

Flower materials used for floral modeling mainly refer to fresh cut flowers and leaves, as well as roots, stems, fruits and vines of plants. According to the shape of flowers, they can be divided into four categories: clustered flowers, linear flowers, scattered flowers and special flowers. Grouping flowers are usually grouped by point, block and surface. Complete flowers or leaves are relatively large and have a sense of weight, and are often used as the focus of the whole flower arrangement or for overlapping and bedding. Such as: lotus, sunflower, gerbera, chrysanthemum, lily, carnation, rose, etc. Linear flowers usually become the basic framework of floral modeling, mainly including branches, roots, stems, long leaves, vines and long or branched flowers. Such as gladiolus, chlorophytum, Oncidium, Dragon Square, coconut core leaves, etc. Loose flower material, also known as misty flower material, is usually composed of countless small flowers that are loose or tight, and is often used for filling, balance and color harmony in floral modeling. Such as: all over the sky, love grass, forget myself, etc. The flower material with special shape generally refers to the flower material with large body, strange flower shape and easy to attract attention, and is often used as the focus flower in floral modeling. Such as: bird of paradise, calla lily, king flower, Anthurium, etc. In addition to the flowers on it, there are dried flowers and artificial flowers, which are the same shape as flowers. Oriental flower arrangement is an implicit and abstract form of flower arrangement based on farming culture and long ancient civilization. Mainly including China and Japan. Oriental flower arrangement can also be called a typical epitome of river culture, which emphasizes the worship of lines and structures and expresses the love for nature with the characteristics of simplicity and lightness. Its composition layout is staggered, the pitch echoes, the density gathers and disperses, and the works are elegant and smooth. Style Characteristics of Oriental Traditional Flower Arrangement Art

First, the "truth" of nature

Oriental flower arrangement advocates nature and regards natural beauty as the best artistic pursuit and expression.

It emphasizes that "things follow the original environment" and "the shape is simple and natural". "Although it is made by people, it is endless."

Yuan Hongdao: Make the viewer suspect that the flowers are clustered at the bottom of the bowl.

Second, the goodness of human nature.

Influenced by the Confucian aesthetic thought of "goodness", flowers are endowed with beautiful symbolic meaning, and the materials must be intentional and the meaning must be auspicious, so that flowers can be used to express their wishes and comfort their feelings, and certain propositions can be given to the works to express specific artistic conception, which is the unique style of traditional oriental flower arrangement. .

Third, the beauty of art.

Including material beauty, layout beauty, color beauty, modeling beauty, artistic conception beauty and overall artistic beauty.

Material beauty: make good use of woody flowers and highlight line modeling.

The layout emphasizes painting and calligraphy, such as "the layout of the painting garden is wonderful"

Color creativity pursues unity and harmony, gorgeous but not vulgar, elegant but not light.

Do not seek rules in modeling, let it play, and express the theme as the degree.

Pursue the overall artistic beauty, respect "holiness" and "purity"

Orientals believe that flowers are sacred. They treat her with piety and make flower arrangement sacred through enlightenment and self-cultivation. Emphasize that "the heart is right and the flowers are right", and then emphasize "the flowers are right and the heart is right". Correcting people's mentality and entertaining people with the beauty of nature is the real artistic realm.

Second, the creative ideas and rules of oriental traditional flower arrangement art

First of all, it conforms to the natural growth law of plants.

1. Tightening: When arranging flowers, the sockets at the base of each branch should be gathered together, such as a growing plant, to show its natural vitality.

2. Show the natural beauty of flowers: For example, the beauty of bamboo lies in its majestic momentum. If you use it obliquely in your creation, you will lose the beauty of connotation.

3. The flower pattern also conforms to the natural form of plants.

Second, learn from the artistic techniques of similar artistic creation.

1: Pay attention to the application of lines.

Wooden branches are often used as the main flower materials, and different linear shapes of branches show different extension beauty and connotation beauty, which makes the works more vivid and artistic.

2. The height is patchy and uneven.

The arrangement of flower arrangement should not be too uniform, symmetrical and even, but should be pitched up and down, stretched back and forth and varied.

3. Combination of reality and reality, combining rigidity with softness.

A. dense

The materials of flower arrangement should not be airtight or evenly spaced. They should be sparse on the top and dense on the bottom, scattered on the top and gathered on the bottom.

B. Suitable shadows

When the color is too strong, dilute it with light flowers. When the material is too hard and heavy, add some soft branches and leaves to soften it.

C. Leave blank

Such as bonsai flower arrangement, one side is decorated with flower arrangement, and the other side is left blank, which gives people room to watch and imagine. Blank gives people a aftertaste.

4. Echo relation

Pay attention to the directionality of flower materials, so that the materials are interrelated, infiltrated and integrated between pitching and looking, so as to be full of vitality and open and close freely.

5. Contrast relationship

Through comparison, the materials can be compared with each other, highlight each other, or highlight the essence of the work. Only by contrast can the composition be vivid and lively, and it will not be straightforward. Contrast includes height, density, size, realism, color contrast and so on.

6 guest-host relationship

When arranging flowers, it is necessary to establish a relationship between the host and the guest, so that the theme can be more concentrated and the looseness caused by unclear priorities can be avoided.

The Lord is the central content of the work. The guest is in the foil position, regardless of color and direction, in order to put the Lord in a prominent position.

Third, pay attention to artistic conception, meaning flowers and assigning propositions.

1: artistic conception

Pay attention to the beauty of the content expressed by flowers, that is, the beauty of artistic conception. Paying attention to the meaning of borrowing things, the form is vivid, the connotation is rich, the artistic conception is far-reaching, it is intriguing, the implication is far-reaching, the expression is poetic, and it is good at beauty and elegance, which is not found in western flower arrangement and other flower arrangements.

2. Meaning in flowers

People give flowers and trees symbolic meaning, express their wishes or feelings through flowers and educate them. So there is the so-called flower meaning and flower language. The origin of the symbolic meaning of flowers and trees is:

1. Determine the meaning through the homonym of the flower name

2. Decide the image of flowers and trees

3. Determine the growth habits of flowers and trees

4. Decide according to legends and seasons

3. Naming of works and expression of artistic conception

Naming has a finishing touch on the artistic conception of flower arrangement works, which can guide the appreciator to associate with the works and have emotional connection with the author.

There are two naming methods:

1. Specify the naming of propositions.

Take the name first, and then create it according to the name.

2. Free proposition naming

After the creation is completed, it will be renamed according to its theme, theme and artistic conception.

Named after the symbolic meaning and characteristics of flowers.

Such as bamboo, pine, orchid, chrysanthemum, osmanthus and other materials to create a "gentleman's respect."