What is your understanding of the art of flower arrangement?

1. The art of flower arrangement has high aesthetic value

The art of flower arrangement has strong visual and intuitive, and it is very easy to arouse people's sense of beauty. This is because it is the most beautiful in nature, the most vitality of the flower as the material for the creation of the flower is the most eye-catching and most attractive, appreciate the flower art can be more direct and faster to make people get a sense of beauty.

2. The art of flower arrangement is a perfect combination of natural beauty and artistic beauty

As mentioned before, the art of flower arrangement is based on the natural plant materials that are full of the meaning of life, and the creation of the original natural form of the flower material is the leading role in the creation of the original natural form of the beauty of the flower material. Therefore, it is the richest form of artistic expression that expresses the beauty of natural harmony, and at the same time, it is a flower artwork that scientifically and artistically transforms the beauty of the natural attributes of plants into personified (idealized) natural beauty, and contains deep and broad connotations, giving the modeling of the beauty of the profound ideas and the beauty of the mood. This kind of poetic and artistic beauty adds rich imagination to the aesthetic activity of Ikebana art, giving people a strong sense of beauty and artistic enjoyment. The creation of this artistic beauty is most obvious and profound in the eastern style of flower arrangement, especially in the Chinese traditional flower arrangement, because the love of nature, reverence for nature, and mastery of nature are the inherent soul of Chinese art.

3. Ikebana is an organic fusion of practical art and aesthetic art

Ikebana has both wide practicality and strong appreciation, with both practical and aesthetic values, no matter where it is applied, its main function is to create a vibrant and lively environment full of warmth and peace for people's work and life. At the same time, it will also introduce the beauty and vitality of nature into people's lives and hearts, so that people can get spiritual pleasure at the same time, to enjoy the beauty.

(2) Conditions and Methods of Appreciating Flower Arrangement

All aesthetic activities must have corresponding subjective and objective conditions in order to achieve good aesthetic effect. For flower arrangement, the objective condition is to have a good flower arrangement and a good appreciation environment; the subjective condition is that the appreciator must have a certain appreciation ability. The three are mutual constraints and influences in the aesthetic activities. The aesthetics of flower arrangement art can not rely on the language of words, nor can it rely on the plot of didacticism, but mainly rely on the visual to produce direct infectious force. A good flower arrangement work, it gives people the first impression should be very beautiful, give people a sense of pleasure and comfort. This beauty and pleasure is the result of the visual feeling of the viewer caused by the harmonious beauty of the overall image of the work. The overall image includes the beautiful shape, color and harmony and composition of the reasonable and appropriate and so on, is a comprehensive embodiment of the beauty of the form. And a good attractive flower arrangement works not only with its form of beauty and attractive, more able to move people is the beauty of its connotation and mood, that is, the theme of the idea of novelty and vividness will be more pleasing to the eye, the works of the mood, the expression of thoughts and feelings, more moving, more able to evoke associations of the appreciators with the **** Ming, and can not be forgotten for a long time. With such a good work, in order to make people have a sense of beauty, appreciate the activities can also be carried out smoothly. At present, there are a lot of opening ceremonies in society, large flower basket insertion, most of them have no rules and regulations, shoddy work, so that the very beautiful flowers have lost their original luster. Can not make people produce works of art, naturally no good appreciation, appreciation activities can not be carried out smoothly. In addition, the appreciation of the environment is also one of the main objective conditions affecting the appreciation of the effect, as the saying goes: "good flowers also need green leaves with", indicating the importance of the green leaves to play a role in supporting the role of the green leaves. Appreciation and application of flower arrangement works is also the same reason, need a good environment to set off a good environment to set off a good environment to set off a good environment to set off a good environment to set off a good environment to set off a good environment. A simple, elegant and quiet furnishing environment can better emphasize the works of freshness and beauty, vitality of the beauty of the charm. Such an aesthetic environment will help appreciators comfortably comprehend the true meaning of art, and enhance the effect of appreciation. China's ancient appreciation of Ikebana works pay close attention to the environmental effect, the works must be furnished with a few racks of excellent, famous calligraphy and painting accompaniment; appreciation or while drinking wine and tea, enjoying the music, or improvisation poetry, by the audio-visual up to the heart of the realization, so as to obtain the enjoyment of multiple levels of beauty.

With good works and a good environment, must also have the appropriate appreciators. Good appreciators, to be able to feel and experience the beauty of the work, or as Marx said: "For the ear that does not recognize the rhythm, and then the good music is meaningless ......" to appreciate the works of floral arrangement is also the case, do not recognize the flowers, do not know the knowledge of color science, do not understand the culture of flowers The same is true for appreciating flower arrangements, without knowing the flower material, without knowing the knowledge of color science, and without understanding the symbolism of flower culture, it can only be a simple perceptual feeling. The more flower arrangements the better, the more colorful the better, the more lively the better, and that's it, nothing else can be said. So "appreciate", at best, it is only pleasing to the eye, what are the emotional **** Ming, sentiment cultivation! Ikebana is an elegant art, appreciators need to have a certain cultural cultivation and rich imagination, to love art, the pursuit of artistic beauty of the heart, to taste the art, in order to y understand the connotation of the work of art and the sense of beauty, to get the feeling from the heart. If you have knowledge of flower arrangement, the characteristics of flower materials, symbolism, etc., it will help you to realize the beauty of the art of flower arrangement. Therefore, the appreciation of the art of flower arrangement is also a spiritual need, is a kind of sentiment cultivation, not only beautify and decorate the life, but also enrich the spiritual life of people, can inspire people to the pursuit of beauty and love.

Appreciation of the art of flower arranging also needs to have the proper method, like appreciating paintings, calligraphy, sculpture and other works, is a static appreciation, need to have a certain time to stop and stay, each piece of work to appreciate, stare at the overall shape of the static view as well as each branch of the flowers and gestures of color and rhyme of the beauty of the speculation to taste the beauty of its mood, to appreciate the author's feelings of the physical senses, so as to give rise to their own emotional activities, and not to walk around browsing the works. It is not advisable to browse through the works, otherwise you will not be able to feel the beauty of the works with your heart, and naturally you will not be able to truly appreciate the beauty of the art of flower arrangement and gain a deep sense of beauty.

When viewing flower arrangement works, you must also choose the appropriate viewing distance and angle. Usually according to the size of the work to determine the viewing distance, generally from the work of 1.5m ~ 3m distance, facing the main face of the work is appropriate. The choice of viewing angle should be based on the works of modeling and placement of the position, most of the works are mainly flat, part of the sagging modeling works must be placed in the line of sight above the height, so you have to look up to appreciate the best viewing surface to see the works. Another part of the horizontal modeling works, suitable for placement in the line of sight below the coffee table or other low places, so only look down to appreciate the best results. In addition, also need to emphasize that, appreciate the works of flower arrangement can not be moved or hand touch works, because they are fresh and fresh plant material, and is gently fixed together, casual touch, easy to change its position, affecting the modeling and aesthetics.

(3) Appreciation and evaluation of flower arrangement works

The evaluation of flower arrangement works is very complex, and it is difficult to find an absolutely uniform standard. According to years of creation, practice and constantly summarize the experience and law of domestic and foreign flower arrangement competition, now puts forward the following standards for appreciation and evaluation, for reference.

1. Overall effect

Flower arrangement works are very strong in intuition and visibility, and in visual aesthetics, the first thing that gives people a strong impression and feeling is the overall effect of the works, which means that the audience's visual effect at the first sight can often see the overall image of the works (shape) of the merits and demerits. It includes whether the size of the shape of the work is reasonable and stable, whether the flower material is reasonable and beautiful to give the combination, the matching of containers, and whether the overall color is harmonious and so on. These aspects of the comprehensive situation, constitute the overall effect of the work. They often trigger the commenter's sense of beauty as the primary basis for evaluating the merits of a work, so it can be said that this is the most intuitive visual effect of evaluating a flower arrangement.

2. Compositional modeling effect

This is one of the main signs of formal beauty. It mainly includes whether the modeling is beautiful and vivid or chic and novel, whether it conforms to the principle of composition, whether the combination of flowers is appropriate, and whether the use of various techniques is reasonable and skillful (such as the sense of stability, sense of hierarchy, sense of rhythm, etc.).

3. Theme performance

This is an important symbol of the beauty of the work's thought and mood, and is often an important basis for reflecting the creativity of the work, whether the subject matter of the content is profoundly novel, whether the proposition is relevant, whether the mood is profound and meaningful, and whether it can draw people's recollection and reverie, especially in the Oriental flower arrangement art work is regarded as the soul of the work, whether it is created or appreciated as the most important content of attention. The content of attention, because it is most capable of triggering the sense of beauty and emotional activity.

4. Color effect

Mainly depends on the overall color matching, that is, the color matching between the flower materials, the color matching between the flower materials and the containers, and the relationship between the color of the work and the surrounding environment, whether it is coordinated, whether it is in line with the principles of color science. Whether the color of the flower arrangement is gorgeous and colorful or light and elegant, it is all based on the standard of harmony.

5. The use of skills

Mainly depends on the composition of the cut, tied, wrapped, fixed flowers, flowers, flower arrangements in the mud to cover the skills, whether to deal with cleanly and skillfully.

The above five evaluation criteria can contain the main content of the performance of flower arrangement works, according to which they can be judged, so it is more suitable for the evaluation of all flower arrangement works. However, because the eastern and western flower arrangement art has its own style and interest, aesthetic point of view is not the same, specific evaluation, the order of the five criteria can be adjusted, such as in our country several sessions of the Ikebana Competition, the eastern art of flower arrangement evaluation criteria: ① theme performance accounted for 30 points; ② modeling accounted for 25 points; ③ color accounted for 25 points; ④ skills accounted for 20 points. In Western flower arrangement, ① color accounts for 30 points; ② modeling accounts for 25 points; ③ theme performance accounts for 25 points; ④ technique accounts for 20 points. It can be seen that the eastern art of flower arrangement focuses on the beauty of the mood, while the western art of flower arrangement focuses on the beauty of the color, each with its own emphasis, depending on the different schools of different styles and specific flexibility.