The difference and connection between contemporary arts and crafts and traditional arts and crafts

Art and craft is the art of beautifying living things and living environment. There are various related concepts mixed with it in China at present. For example, the term practical art or applied art, which was first adopted, has too broad a meaning; the term pattern or design refers only to the intentional craftsman and fails to reflect craft production; industrial design refers to the fine art of large-scale industrial production with modern materials and modern technology; and special craft refers to the traditional handicrafts with expensive materials and complicated processing.

Characteristics Arts and crafts are divided into daily necessities and decorative appreciations; from production, there are handmade and machine production, including modern electronic production; from materials, there are ceramics, goldsmiths, woodworkers, lacquerers, dyers and weavers, etc.; and from the era, there are traditional crafts and modern crafts.

Arts and crafts is both a material and a spiritual production, with both material and spiritual attributes, and directly serves people's life. This is the fundamental point that distinguishes it from other arts in the field of arts. The creation of arts and crafts includes both design and production; that is to say, it is not only a beautiful pattern on paper, but also to be made into concrete material finished products through craft materials. It is the art processing of living goods and living environment, so its material function is the first, basic; aesthetics is the second, subordinate. In the historical development, some varieties of arts and crafts have been gradually separated from the practical and become pure appreciation, according to its artistic nature, it has been separated from the category of arts and crafts and become pure art.

Arts and crafts is a marginal discipline. It is closely related to the following disciplines: ① Functionality, from the human physiology and psychology of the scope of the study of the relationship between human beings and objects in the process of use, in order to solve the problem of utility more efficiently; ② Aesthetics, the study of arts and crafts of the shape of the beauty of the United States, the beauty of the color, the beauty of the decorative, the beauty of the material, the beauty of the structure, etc.; ③ Crafts, mainly refers to the process of materials and craft technology, through the use of certain material materials and production techniques in order to fully reflect its design intention; ④ psychology, the study of objects and the environment in the life of the psychological reflection, especially the study of popular psychology; ⑤ economics, the study of arts and crafts cost, value, and power, packaging, transportation, etc.; ⑥ informatics, the study of historical information, the current situation of the information and forecast information, to provide scientific information for the design and production.

Content and Form The content of arts and crafts includes two aspects: the functional conditions regulated by the practicality of life, and the aesthetic content embodied by the aesthetic requirements. Arts and crafts emphasize the expression of beautiful, positive and affirmative themes. Arts and crafts is mainly through the grasp of people's spiritual world, in order to show a particular interest, style and other life interests and spiritual outlook.

The form of arts and crafts also has two aspects: the basic type that meets the functional requirements of life use, and the external form that expresses the aesthetic requirements. This external form is constrained by the functional requirements and is usually embodied by the three factors of modeling, color and decoration. Styling is based on the basic type of external form, all kinds of arts and crafts, styling is the most important; color is embodied in the craft materials

or additional materials, color has an important spiritual impact and artistic expression, but there is no styling, there is no color; decoration is to strengthen the artistic effect of a means of excellent decorations are not an addition to the arts and crafts of the beauty of the arts and crafts is not entirely dependent on the presence or absence of decorations. The beauty of arts and crafts does not depend entirely on the presence or absence of decoration.

The expression of arts and crafts, because of the requirements of practicality and the limitations of functionality, is generally not suitable for the depiction of objective objects, and is mainly based on performance. Usually, the sense of form is fully utilized to reflect its specific aesthetic sense, interest and artistic style. And this embodiment is often more ambiguous, non-concrete. Therefore, arts and crafts not only often use the table

Number, symbol, simulation, allegory, association and other techniques, but also to take advantage of the people in the life of the form of experience, the gradual formation of aesthetic psychology and emotional reflection.

Principles of creation Practical, economical, beautiful is the creative principles of arts and crafts. ①Practicality, the study of the relationship between people and objects, the study of the relationship and reflection of the physiological and psychological aspects of the use of objects, as well as the effects and changes in the action. For example: the hand in holding things convenient, labor-saving, safety, etc., the items on the person's sense of cleanliness, hot and cold, hard and soft, etc., sitting, lying down, walking produced by

various effects, etc.. ② economic, not only related to the cost, value, energy, transportation, etc., the positive aspects of more in the effectiveness and popularity. ③Aesthetics, refers to the beauty of shape, color, decoration, and material beauty, craftsmanship, etc., all of which must be embodied in the beauty of the times and the beauty of the nation.

In the creation of arts and crafts, the design of artisans must also continue to develop and deepen to adapt to the development of the times and the needs of life. Performance in the arts and crafts imagery needs to have the concept of space, time, system. The concept of space includes object space, action space and environment space: object space refers to the inner space and outer space of the object itself, such as the shape of the bottle, the inner space that is the body of the bottle, the outer space that is the shape of the bottle; action space that is reflected in the use of spatial changes in the use of the object, lifting, opening and closing, spreading and folding and other effects; the environment space is to indicate the spatial relationship between the object and the object and between the object and the environment. The concept of time includes the change of time during the use of objects, as well as the change of popular psychology in aesthetics. The concept of system requires that totality, connectedness and regularity be shown in the design imagery. This is a high requirement for the best design in modern design.

Status and Role Arts and crafts play a role in people's ideology and aesthetic interests through people's clothing, food, housing, transportation, and other daily necessities and living environment, and it has the incomparable regularity, extensiveness, and in-depth nature of other arts. People in childhood, arts and crafts in the form of toys, clothing and other forms of influence; whether in the city or the countryside, arts and crafts are

The way of living supplies and living environment to beautify life, beautify people; arts and crafts with its living supplies and living environment of the way all the time in the influence of the people. The influence of arts and crafts on people's life and thought is subtle, it is not as concrete and certain as painting, but bakes a broad artistic style and aesthetic interest. It plays an extremely important role in building material and spiritual civilization. In the past, some people called arts and crafts as custodial art, and others called it secondary art, all failing to grasp its artistic essence, or out of a historical bias