How to introduce a handicraft?

Craft, calligraphy and architecture all belong to practical art, and their practical value and aesthetic value are unified. They all focus on expressing people's subjective feelings, subjective world, personality and spiritual feelings. They all occupy a certain space in form, so they are classified as expressive space art.

Handicrafts have both practical value and aesthetic value, which refers to daily necessities with aesthetic characteristics in shape and color. Including daily appliances, furniture, clothing, environmental layout, etc. , all belong to practical technology. As a unique art, craft has its own special laws of beauty. Craft generally does not simulate or copy objective objects. Even if some handicrafts adopt realistic themes, such as flowers, birds, animals, fish and insects, what they pursue is not the precise modeling of the utensils, but the patterning and decoration of the utensils through artistic techniques such as exaggeration and deformation, thus creating an art with certain symbolic significance or reflecting abstract, loose and hazy emotional atmosphere. This shows that technology is a universal art of expression. In addition to practicality, people mainly use it to beautify the environment, enrich spiritual life and cultivate sentiment. This is the law that technology is particularly beautiful.

Craft beauty pays attention to the harmony of formal factors such as lines, colors, shapes and structures, and emphasizes formal beauty. It mainly follows the law of formal beauty, and its modeling is decisive. For example, the design and manufacture of furniture handicrafts must follow the law of formal beauty. Symmetry can set off a serious and complete atmosphere in the design and manufacture of furniture. Asymmetric balance can show liveliness and fluency. White or cool colors, strong or harmonious contrast, different centers of gravity, straight lines and curved shapes can all form colorful styles. Because handicrafts are closely related to people's daily life, it plays an irreplaceable role in cultivating people's aesthetic consciousness. Generally speaking, the more advanced the society, the more developed the practical technology.

There is also a kind of arts and crafts purely for enjoyment, which evolved from practical crafts, such as ivory carving, shell carving, clay sculpture and so on. Some of them are still called handicrafts because they still retain the appearance of practical handicrafts, such as some gold and silver musical instruments. Others have completely lost the characteristics of practical handicrafts and become pure artistic creations, such as tooth carving and jade carving, which no longer belong to the category of practical art.