Detailed description of the differences between the traditional oriental flower arrangement art and the western traditional flower arrangement art from various aspects

The stylistic characteristics of traditional oriental flower arrangement art

First, the natural "true"

The eastern style of flower arranging advocates nature, and takes natural beauty as the best artistic pursuit and performance.

The Eastern style of flower arranging emphasizes on natural beauty as the best artistic pursuit and expression.

The Eastern style of flower arranging emphasizes on "the object follows the original state", "the shape is like nature", and "even though it is made by man, it is like the sky has opened up"

Yuen Hongdao: it is wonderful to make the viewers suspect that the flowers are born at the bottom of the bowl.

Second, the humanities of "goodness"

By the Confucian aesthetic thought of "goodness" as the purpose of the influence of the flowers are given a good symbolic meaning, the material must be intentional, the intention must be auspicious symbols, symbols, allegories, harmonic techniques, in order to borrow the flowers to express their aspirations, flowers Shu Huai, the flower, and so on. The techniques of symbolism and harmony are used to borrow flowers to express one's thoughts and feelings, as well as to assign a certain title to the work, so that the work will display a specific mood, which is the unique style of traditional oriental flower arrangement.

These are the most popular styles of traditional oriental flower arrangement.

Third, the "beauty" of art

Includes the beauty of material, layout, color, shape, conception and overall art

Beauty of material: making good use of woody flowers, highlighting the shape of lines.

The layout of the painting theory and calligraphy, such as "painting garden layout is wonderful".

Color creativity in pursuit of unity and harmony, colorful but not vulgar, elegant but not light

The shape is not regular, free to play, in order to express the theme for the degree

The pursuit of the overall artistic beauty of the four "holy" clean respect

The Orientals believe that flowers are sacred to a kind of reverence for the inertia to treat her, to flowers to understand the way

The Orientals believe that flowers are sacred to a kind of reverence, to flowers to understand the way. Treat her with a reverent heart to flower enlightenment, cultivate the body, so that flower arrangement also has a sense of holiness. The idea is to have a "positive heart and positive flowers" and then "positive flowers and positive heart". The beauty of nature to the human mind, to amusement, this is the real state of the art.

Second, the creation of traditional oriental flower art concepts and laws

First, in line with the natural growth of plants

1. tight handle: flower arrangement, the base of each branch socket should be centralized close to the plant, such as a growing plant, in order to show its natural vitality.

2. Show the natural beauty of the flowers: the beauty of bamboo lies in its strong momentum, if the creation of tilted use, the loss of her inner beauty.

3. The flower type is also in line with the natural form of plants.

Second, drawing on similar artistic creation of artistic techniques

1: the importance of the application of lines

Commonly used woody branches as the main flower material, the use of branches of different line forms to express the beauty of the different extents and connotations of the beauty of the work is more vivid and lively, more rich in artistic expression.

2: Staggered heights and variations

The position of the flower arrangement should not be too uniform and symmetrical, and it should be high and low, stretching back and forth, and there are variations.

3: the combination of real and virtual, strong and soft

A. sparse and dense

Flowering materials should not be impermeable to each other, nor should they be evenly spaced. It should be sparse on the bottom of the dense, scattered on the bottom of the poly.

B. Appropriate thickness

The color of the flowers is too strong to use light-colored flowers to make it fade, the material is too hard and heavy, it is appropriate to add some gentle branches and leaves to make it soft.

C. Leave blank

As in the bonsai style flower arrangement, one side of the arrangement of flowers, the other side of the large area left blank, so that there is room for people to watch and imagine. Blanks out of the rest of the rhyme.

4: echo relationship

Pay attention to the directionality of the flower material, so that the material in the pitch, between the interconnection, mutual penetration, and integration, so that the vitality, open and close freely.

5: Contrast

Through contrast, materials can be compared with each other, each highlighting, or so that the essence of the work can be emphasized. There are contrasts in order to make the composition appear lively and vivid, not flat. Contrast has high and low, dense, size, reality, color contrast and so on.

6 guest-master relationship

Flower arrangement to establish the relationship between the guest and the master, can make the theme more focused, to avoid the main and the main is not clear and caused by the diffuse.

The main, is the centerpiece of the work. And the guest is in the position to set off, whether from the color, tendency, is to put the main in a prominent position for the purpose.

Third, the mood, meaning in the flowers, more endowed with propositions

1: mood

Focus on the beauty of the content expressed by the flowers, that is, the beauty of the mood. Speaking of borrowing things to imply meaning, the shape of the God, the connotation of colorful, far-reaching meaning, intriguing and reverie, the expression of poetry and picturesque, beautiful and colorful, elegant and elegant, this is not in the Western flower arrangement or even in other flower arrangements.

2: the meaning of flowers

People give flowers and trees symbolic meanings, in order to borrow flowers to express their feelings or express their feelings, and to teach in flowers. Therefore, the so-called flower meaning and flower language. The origin of the symbolic meaning of flowers and trees are:

1. To the harmonic meaning of the flower name

2. To the image of the flowers and trees

3. To the growth habit of the flowers and trees

4. According to the legend, the meaning of the season

3: the naming of the work and the expression of the mood

The naming of the work of the meaning of the flower arrangement has a role of the finishing touches that can guide the admirer to the work of association

4. To the meaning of the work of the flower and trees

5. Lead the admirer to the association of the work, and the author of the emotional **** Ming.

There are two kinds of naming:

1. Naming of the specified proposition

Naming first, and then creating according to the naming

2. Naming of the free proposition

After the creation is completed, it will be named according to the theme, subject and mood of the performance

Taking the symbolic meanings and characteristics of the flower materials to get a name

Named after the landscape scenery in nature

such as "Spring Colors of Li River"

Cited from "Fundamentals of Flower Arrangement Art", edited by Lai Pei Ha and Fan Yan Ping

The work is named after a kind of sentiment and emotion

such as on the top".

Quoted from "The Basics of Flower Arrangement," edited by Li Peixia and Fan Yanping

The performance techniques of Scenic Flower Arrangement

1. Layout requirements

Scenic Flower Arrangement emphasizes the arrangement of the distant view, the middle view, and the near view. Use the perspective of "near and far" to arrange the scene. Multi-plant scenery should be handled in groups, four plants should be three plants intensively, a separate plant, five plants according to three plants and two plants grouped, three plants also according to two plants a separate plant. Differences in height, not flush, not arranged in the same straight line, and posture changes, echo each other, lively and interesting.

2, the selection of flowers

The realistic scene is basically faithful to the natural scenery, with the flowers in the scene; the scene is highly generalized to express the lake and mountains, snow, rain, wind and frost, and other natural scenery.

The selection of materials is wide, available mountain flowers and weeds with strange branches, or choose representative plants to express the infinite changes of nature.

3, containers and accessories to accompany

Scenic Ikebana containers are shallow depth and wide wide-mouthed shallow pots. When writing a landscape, they often use some appropriate accessories to set the mood and render the landscape

4, the expression technique of writing a landscape

In addition to writing a landscape, you can also use generalized and abstract artistic techniques to express nature, such as using bold lines to outline the general outline of the landscape, like a non-like, in order to evoke associations, and this kind of writing technique is often more than the actual landscape.

The basic flower pattern of oriental traditional flower arrangement

1, the structure of the basic flower pattern

The basic flower pattern of the eastern style generally consists of three main branches to form a skeleton, and then around the main branches, insert some auxiliary branches with different lengths to fill up the space, so as to make the flower pattern plump and have a hierarchical sense of the first main branch decides the basic form of the flower pattern, such as upright, tilted or pendulous, and the length is taken as the sum of the height and the diameter of the flower vessel. Its length is 1.5-2 times the sum of the height and diameter of the flower container.

The second main branch is generally used with the first main branch of the same kind of flowers to make up for the shortcomings of the first main branch, stretching forward to the tilted space, so that the flower has a certain width and depth, showing a sense of three-dimensional. Its length should be 1/2 or 3/4 of the first branch.

The third branch is to equalize the flower pattern. With the first and second branch can take the same flowers, can also take other flowers, if the first and second branch with woody flowers, then the third branch can choose herbal flowers, in order to change the shape and color, its length should be 1/2 or 3/4 of the second branch.

Subordinate branch is a companion and support the branches of the main branch, its length should be shorter than the branch it accompanies, auxiliary in the surrounding the main branch, the number according to the need to achieve the effect, and the number of the main branch. The number depends on the need, can achieve the effect can be. General selection and the main branch of the same flowers, if the three main branches are selected woody flowers, the auxiliary branch should be selected herbaceous flowers.

The mutual position of the branches and the angle of insertion is different, then the flower pattern is different, you can change a lot of flower pattern, increase the variability of the work.

2, the east way common basic flower

A. Upright

The first main branch upright upward into the container, the performance of strong and upright or pavilion posture, giving a dignified and stable artistic beauty. It is suitable for flat viewing.

"Heshun Reunion" by Wang Lianying

Cited from "Appreciation of Chinese Classical Flower Arrangements" edited by Wang Lianying and Qin Kuijie

B. Tilted type

Inserting the main flower branches into containers at an angle outward, utilizing some naturally curved or tilted branches to show its lively and dynamic appearance. lively and dynamic beauty. It is suitable to be viewed flatly. The overall outline should be a tilted rectangle, i.e., the horizontal dimension is larger than the height, in order to show the beauty of the tilt.

The picture on the right is quoted from "Fundamentals of Flower Arrangement" edited by Li Peixia and Fan Yanping

C. Spreading Type

The spreading type is to stretch the main branches horizontally diagonally or flatly in a container, focusing on the beauty of the horizontal slant of the lines or the beauty of the horizontal spreading of the color bands, with the first branch slanting downward at about 80o-90o, basically horizontal with the flower container.

"Drunken World's First Jiao" by Wang Lianying

Cited from "The Art of Traditional Chinese Flower Arrangement" edited by Wang Lianying and Qin Kui Jie

D: Drooping

Inserting the main branches of the flowers into the container in a drooping downward position, utilizing trailing, semi-trailing, and plants with flexible and easy-to-bend branches to show their slenderness, elegance, and smoothness of bending. It is a vivid and decorative picture, utilizing mostly trailing and semi-trailing plants and plants with flexible and easy-to-bend branches to express the beauty of their long, flowing, curved and smooth lines. The picture on the right is quoted from "Practical Flower Arrangement Essentials and Examples" by Peggy Lai

E. Combined Flower Arrangement

Combined Flower Arrangement is the combination of two identical or different types of flowers to form a whole piece of modeling work.

"Spring" by Xie Xiaorong

Quoted from "Kunming Expo Flower Arrangement Competition Award Winners 1" edited by Lai Ercong

F. Scenic Flower Arrangement

Scenic Flower Arrangement is a form of flower arrangement that expresses the natural scenery in a square inch of a pot

F. Wang Luchang "quiet" Western-style flower arrangement has the characteristics of Western art. Its shape is more neat, mostly geometric composition, pay attention to symmetry and balance, strong colors, more materials, dense arrangements. The selected flowers have certain ceremonial meanings. Western-style flower arrangements are usually bright and colorful, and the flowers are regular. One of the characteristics of Western-style flower arrangements is to use a large amount of flowers, colorful. Principles and artistic characteristics of Western flower arrangement Western flower arrangement is concerned about geometric modeling, the following four aspects of balance, harmony, rhythm and mood to explore its principles and artistic characteristics: (a) balance balance, that is, the sense of stability of the work, symmetrical balance and asymmetrical balance of the points. Because Western flower arrangement is a regular geometric composition, the problem of balance is easy to solve. In order to achieve the balance of common methods are: 1, the main tone of the flowers symmetrically and evenly distributed in the entire composition, to achieve a balanced effect; 2, the center part of the composition of the flowers using large, dark, dense arrangement of flowers, thick texture of the flowers, the edge of the flowers and the center part of the opposite, which highlights the theme and the center of gravity, to achieve the balance of the composition. Due to the amount of western flower arrangements, it is easy to form a head-heavy and lose the sense of balance. Therefore, it is common to use large, heavy, wide-mouthed containers, such as ceramics, metal materials, and so on. Large pile of flower arrangements and table arrangements often use in the middle and lower part of the insertion of a few large flowers or at the base of some silk, spiky foliage and other appendages (such as pines and cypresses). The use of appendages of natural, flowing to highlight the focus, to achieve a balanced, stable effect. (ii) Harmony and harmony have both contrast and change, giving a sense of harmony and unity. The harmony of flower arrangement includes the harmony between flower materials, between flower materials and flower vessels, between works and environment, etc. Here we mainly discuss the harmony between flower materials, the main factors affecting the harmony of flower materials are shape and color, in which color is the main one, and there are mainly the following four kinds of techniques: 1, using the same color of the same kind of flower materials, with not much change in color, and only change in shape and size, without contrast, so it naturally achieves the harmony. 2, using the same color and color of similar color of the same kind of flower materials, with not much change in shape and size, without contrast, naturally achieving the harmony. 2, using the same color and color of similar color of the same flower materials, with no contrast. Hue and hue of similar materials, shape changes or similar, such as red and pink, in the color is naturally harmonious. Often use the same kind of flower relative concentration and gradual transition to solve the problem. 3, the same shape, color using contrasting colors, such as red and white, green and red, yellow and purple. If the composition of the two colors in the relatively uniform arrangement of flowers, or a relative concentration of colors, such as bright yellow concentrated in the middle, the gradual transition to the outside of the purple, so that the two colors in contrast to achieve harmony. 4, whether the color or shape of the flower material has a large change, this situation is often found in the large pile of head type flower arrangement. This kind of work takes the method of reconciliation: first of all, the shape and color coordination of the larger flowers as the main body, the number of dominant. Arrangement and make it occupy the main position, and distributed in all parts of the composition, and then use white to harmonize. Borrowing ribbons, gold and silver containers also help to harmonize. (C) Rhythm, i.e., organized and rhythmic changes, mainly changes in shape and color. Western flower arrangement (especially the big pile of flower arrangement) works in both shape and color to have a number of main flowers (focal point), and then with 2 or 3 levels of flowers (line flowers) and ingredients (complementary flowers). Staggered, layered one by one insertion system, reflecting the movement in the quiet, the rhythm of the main and secondary. (D) Context Western flower arrangement directly and warmly expresses people's emotional world. Such as Mother's Day with balsam fir, Easter with lilies, expressing love with red roses, laurel branches on behalf of the victory, olive branches on behalf of peace and equality. Christmas people like to use a pint of red as the main flower, with green pine branches, holly leaves, white balsam and red fruit, reflecting the hot and happy atmosphere of Christmas.

Cited from "Chinese and Foreign Modern Floral Art - Selected Works of Flower Rhythm", edited by Cai Zhongjuan

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