The Significance and Purpose of Paper Carving

Paper Carving in China Traditional Art

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2065438+April 8, 2009

There are early records of sculpture. In the Northern Wei Dynasty, Li Daoyuan wrote "Notes on Water Classics and Turbulent Water": "The speaker, when gold, silver, copper and tin first opened, the decorations of vermicelli carvings were rotten."

Also in the Southern Dynasties, Liang and Liu wrote "On Guang San": "There are hundreds of carvers, and the furnace hits everything." It means that the carving process means that everything can be carved, with a long history and exquisite skills. Up to now, such as wood carving, jade carving, stone carving and so on.

Now the technology is gradually mechanized, and carving has spawned a new art-paper carving.

Engraving paper carving originated from traditional paper carving, and the earliest paper carving works in China were made by hand. /kloc-In the middle of the 0/8th century, paper sculpture brought new life to a group of European artists who loved creation, which was the heyday of a new form of paper sculpture. After that, the schools of paper carving began to be clear. At present, there are three mainstream schools: cubism, experimental school and woodcut paper carving.

Carving paper carving is a process with paper as the material and knife as the auxiliary tool. It uses advanced new flexible paper, carves on the paper with a sharp scalpel, and finally takes shape. In the development process of woodcut paper carving, it gradually absorbed the characteristics of printmaking and meticulous painting, and at the same time, it constantly innovated in content and theme, and finally became its own.

Paper carving. The paper carving process is complicated, but it presents a shocking effect on the machine. It shows the exquisiteness of traditional craftsmen, especially in the details of micro-painting carving.

Liang kept experimenting, challenging the impossible and pursuing perfection, and finally achieved the best of both details and aesthetics.

The paper sculpture works are simple and elegant, which is more in line with the appreciation values of China people and has far-reaching significance. In the selection of materials, it has China characteristics. Choosing new paper as the description material not only has the tenacity of leather, but also has the softness of ordinary paper, making it easier to collect. In addition, according to the background of its birth, the carved paper sculpture chooses the traditional folk totem as its creative theme.

It has carried forward the strong local characteristics and national style of folk art and responded to the call of the times.