Artistic modeling of puppets

Puppet theater actors are double, the real public performance is the puppet, puppet modeling is both sculpted and painted by people into the theater role, but also for people to manipulate the theater tools.　The trajectory of the art of Chinese puppet modeling, roughly divided into three stages:

(1) three carving seven painting stage. By the artists first carved head shape, and then painted face to distinguish the characters, modeling mainly by painting the face.

(2) carving and painting combined stage. Modeling, carving, painting and emphasize creativity and technique, the emergence of professional even head artists and workshops. Before the Ming and Qing dynasties are these two stages.

3 plasticity and random stage. Present and contemporary puppet modeling artists, make full use of modern technology products, according to the needs of the theater content and the aesthetic tendency of the times, design, production of puppets, make it more exaggerated, more puppet art characteristics, not only get rid of the tradition of pure opera, but also with their different artistic pursuit, constitutes a brilliant and colorful puppet modeling world, which is the era of China's unprecedented prosperity of puppet modeling art.