What are the differences between China and the West for the same paper cutting?

The world's paper-cutting factions are roughly divided into East and West, the Asian region is influenced by Chinese culture, which can be categorized as one faction, while other countries and regions can be divided into Western factions. Nowadays, most of the foreign paper cuttings are called contemporary paper cuttings. They are more innovative, decorative, and modern design style, which is the heritage of traditional folk paper cutting, incorporating more personal inspiration from designers. Oriental paper-cutting is delicate and transparent, and Chinese and Japanese paper-cutting are the most representative. Western paper-cutting revered silhouette, Germany, Britain, France is more prominent.

Asia region of Japan, South Korea and most of their paper-cutting is based on the development and innovation of Chinese folk paper-cutting, it is in the contemporary technical methods plus the cultural color of their own people to create. Japan's cutting painting won by knife work, that is influenced by Chinese paper-cutting production of Japanese new paper-cutting. Japanese modern printmaking greatly exceeds the traditional, folk and inherent normative patterns of cutting, and is a unique style that combines cutting and painting. The cut works have more elements of printmaking.

Based on Western colors, the coldness and sultriness of traditional Japanese colors are combined to form an aesthetic perspective different from that of ukiyo-e and Western painting. Germany, France and England are primarily silhouettes, with peripheral and black shadows presenting features and expressions. There are black and white silhouettes and colorful silhouettes. The French paper cutout is represented by Matisse, the master of Fauvism. His paper cuttings are basically shadow shapes, utilizing a variety of material from humans, flowers and animals, pure and strong, very harmonious and full of beauty. He abstractly blends all solid and three-dimensional to the level of color, creating contrasting combinations. His paper cut-outs are actually paintings by another means.

The famous Danish writer has also created many paper-cutting works, and some of the paper-cutting shapes are more ancient and some are more realistic. His paper-cutting use of symmetry is not dull, but the flexible use of symmetry, balance and change to create the composition, his paper-cutting is full of fairy tale colors. Swiss paper-cutting can be seen as peculiarly delicate and refined, paper-cutting artists usually fold the paper and cut it into symmetrical decorative patterns, and then cut different compositions from the blanks to tell a story with flat paper-cutting. Although American paper-cutting is black and white, the style is also very real, with panel painting flavor, no stereotypes compared to European paper-cutting, upward expansion of the trend is obvious, and the content seems to be closer to life. The important thing in American papercutting is creative and interesting papercutting, which is mainly for children's toy papercutting.