What is the product of human culture, it is a combination of carving, painting, crafts in one

The mask is a product of human culture, it is a combination of carving, painting, craftsmanship in one, suitable for facial decoration and wear of works of art.

Masks are a special field of plastic arts, which first appeared in very remote ancient times. Many tribes and tribal masks are often a combination of carving and painting to create quite wonderful works, although strange, after all, is not an important achievement for the plastic arts.

Mask culture is also commonly known as Nuo culture. His appearance is a sign of social progress. China is the mask produced the earliest, popular for the longest time one of the countries, until today can still see its prototype and shadow, continue to play a role in our people's psychology, folklore, culture and art.

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Nuo Nuo masks are Nuo culture in Nuo rituals, Nuo rituals in the use of props, is a more primitive mask modeling, is a primitive totem reproduction, is to dispel the disaster of Nao auspicious symbols, is an important spiritual power of the people since ancient times. Nuo masks have experienced from the primitive deity worship to entertain the gods, entertaining the type of change, with the taste of religious art and folk art features.

Nuo masks rooted in the folk, cohesion of generations of people's aesthetic interests, more responsive to an essential force, many Nuo masks can be described as artistic boutique, mask features or realistic, or abstract, rough and fierce.

Nuo masks of artistic style, although thick, rough, but folk artisans with traditional carving techniques, simple and fast knife, soft and smooth lines, carving out a variety of different shapes masks to portray each mask in the opera character image, personality and identity, so that people can distinguish a look is a god is a ghost, is a man is a woman, is the old is a young man is a civil is a martial arts, is a monk or Taoist or clowns.

The expression of the main changes in the five senses and decorations to complete the character of the swarthy, fierce, fierce, mighty, stern, stable, deep, calm, heroic, arrogant, treacherous, funny, loyal, upright, fierce, perverse, amiable, gentle, beautiful, kind and so on the character of the image building.

Through fine carving, colorful, simple folk styling techniques to give life to the mask, the image of the folk myths of the gods, ghosts and monsters and legends of the various types of characters of joy, anger, sadness, happiness, rich expression, distinctive character.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Mask (Chinese words)

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