Ikebana development history and different styles, flower arrangement modeling can be broadly divided into several categories?

Flower arrangement development history and different styles, flower arrangement modeling can be broadly divided into: three categories (Western style Eastern style free style).

A, use

1. Ceremonial flower arrangement. Used in a variety of social and ceremonial activities, to support and create an atmosphere, or warm and cheerful, or solemn. Commonly used in many forms, such as a variety of baskets, bouquets, flower bowls, garlands, wreaths, bouquets, corsages, table decorations and so on, according to the different occasions and the atmosphere of choice. It should be noted that different festivals with flowers customs and taboos, can not be selected with odor, toxicity and pollution of the environment of the flowers.

2. Artistic flower arrangement. As a major type of appreciation and beautification of the main shape of its colorful, pay attention to the performance of the beauty of the line, color or elegant and simple, or bright and bright

Two, artistic style

1. Western-style flower arrangement. Represented by the traditional flower arrangement of European and American countries. It is characterized by the large volume of works, simple, generous and condensed shape, tight and prosperous structure, gorgeous or elegant colors. The embodiment of the theme idea is through the appearance of the work rather than the connotation, and the insertion method mostly adopts the big pile of head type insertion method, focusing on the overall artistic effect. Western-style flower arrangement is characterized by warmth and exuberance, elegance and splendor, dignity and generosity, which is very suitable for decorative flower arrangement.

2. Eastern style flower arrangement. Represented by China and Japan. Influenced by traditional culture and customs, the eastern style of flower arrangement has a variety of shapes and is not confined to the form; most of them are natural lines, mostly asymmetrical compositions, and the color scheme is fresh and light to be elegant; the theme idea is expressed through the connotation and context of the work, and the method of insertion is based on the line style of insertion with three main branches as the skeleton.

3. Free-style flower arrangement. It combines the characteristics of eastern and western flower arrangement. Selection of materials, composition, modeling eclectic, free and extensive, you can use a variety of non-plant materials, such as metal, feathers, glass, etc., the color of the natural color and synthetic color, more expressive, can be a separate work, but also a number of works combined, the method of insertion of a combination of Eastern and Western insertion method, more imaginative and vitality.