The beauty of symmetry in the art of paper-cutting

A pair of scissors and a piece of paper can create wonderful works, which is the charm of the art of paper-cutting, paper-cutting has a history of more than 1,500 years, is a kind of practical and ornamental art categories.

The art of paper-cutting can exercise hands-on ability, expand thinking, beautify life, and cultivate sentiment. In this semester, all grades are experiencing the charm of Chinese paper-cutting art in paper-cutting activities.

Folding paper-cutting is one of the most commonly used methods of paper-cutting, through different ways of folding and cutting, its folding method is simple, easy to make, suitable for the expression of the structure and symmetry of the shape of the figure has a folded two-square continuous four-square continuous group and other rich forms, is the basis of paper-cutting.

This week we learn folded paper cutting, folded paper cutting is the structure of the symmetry of the form of flexible expression. Non-symmetrical content can also be enriched by folding styles.

In this course, students will learn about the basic symbolic language of paper cutting: sawtooth, crescent, flower, cloud, water and other exclusive paper cutting languages.

Paper-cutting is characterized by the completeness of "a thousand cuts, ten thousand cuts", paper-cutting works should be expressed in the form of carefully conceived, reasonable and simple to do both connected and natural, whether it is carved in the yang or yin, pay attention to its completeness, while emphasizing the sense of the paper in place, which is the premise of paper-cutting is different from other forms of art. Mention up to appreciate the students cut out of the spring flowers and butterflies works it!