Folk art is an important part of what?

An important part of traditional culture.

Folk art is a type of art. It refers to arts and crafts that are closely associated with a particular cultural lineage or community and are guided by traditional methods or principles, including painting, ceramics, weaving, sculpture and other art forms. The meaning is somewhat similar to handicrafts, but more in the direction of simplicity.

Folk art, in the folk sense, refers to the creations made by ordinary people in their daily lives. Thus, the paper-cutting paintings of a woman in the countryside, the calves sculpted by a neighboring uncle for a child, and the rakugo (a kind of street music) that attracts children are all within the scope of this category of art.

Folk art can also be called folk art, but the scope of folk art is broader. The word fine art is narrower, focusing on the development of objects. So the skill of playing the gyro would be considered folk art, but the decoration, shape, etc. of the gyro itself would be considered part of folk art

Generally speaking, folk art is different from "art for vegetarians," that is, art created by artists who are not formally trained but are not necessarily attached to a particular cultural community. The term is also generally different from "non-mainstream art," which is created or collected in a way that specifically avoids the main ideas of formal training.

Categorization

The rich and colorful folk art can be categorized in many ways, according to the material, there are paper, cloth, bamboo, wood, stone, leather, metal, noodles, clay, ceramics, grass and willow, palm and rattan, lacquer and so on all kinds of different materials made of various kinds of folk handicrafts, which are basically natural materials, processed and made by hand.

According to the different production techniques, the folk art can be divided into cutting and carving, molding, weaving and embroidery (including printing and dyeing), weaving, painting, carving and engraving, paste, performance, decorative furnishings, and so on.

Some scholars also categorize them according to the shape, but these categories are relatively single, and cannot fully reflect the close relationship between the extremely rich content of folk arts and crafts and traditional culture.