杨心萍

 剪出花样

名字：杨心萍

鉴赏项目：剪纸

语录：惟妙惟肖的剪纸艺术

 

剪纸的介绍(Introduction of Paper-Cutting)

剪纸，又叫作刻纸。区别在于创作时，有的用剪刀，有的用刻刀，虽然工具有别，但创作出来的艺术作品基本相同，人们统称为剪纸。剪纸也可以说是一种镂空艺术和最为流行的民间艺术，在视觉上给予人们一种透空的感觉和艺术享受，其载体可以是纸张、金银箔等其它的片状材料。

剪纸在形成的初期，主要是用剪刀剪。后来，慢慢发展到用刀刻，但仍然叫做剪纸。经过长时间的艺术实践，剪纸艺术开始由简单日趋复杂，由粗糙逐渐走向精细。

总的来说，剪纸艺术依然是中国百姓用以表达思想和情感的方式之一，深入民间，呈现出人们互动关怀和艺术创造活力。

Paper-cutting is also known as carved paper. The difference is that when creating, some use scissors and some use cutters. Although the tools are different, the created works of art are basically the same. People collectively call them paper-cutting.  Paper-cutting can also be said to be a kind of hollow art and the most popular folk art. It gives people a sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment visually. The carrier can be paper, gold and silver foil and other sheet materials.

In the early stages of formation, paper cutting is mainly cut with scissors. Later, it gradually developed to carving with a knife, but it is still called paper-cutting. After a long period of artistic practice, the art of paper-cutting becomes more complex, from roughness to fineness. 

In general, the art of paper-cutting is still one of the ways Chinese people use to express their thoughts and emotions. It penetrates into the folks, showing people's interactive care and artistic creativity.

鉴赏与心得(Appreciation)

        我所要鉴赏的剪纸作品分别是牛、抓髻娃娃及龙。人们通常都将牛看作是勤劳和诚恳的代表，尤其是在过去的农耕社会，没有现代机械化农耕操作的辅助，所以牛在农业耕作中的作用就至关重要。而正是因为牛对人有着重要的作用，所以我们在许多传统的民间剪纸艺术品中都能看到牛的形象，寓意着在今后一年中都是财源滚滚。而“抓髻娃娃”是中国民间剪纸艺术中最为古老、夸张、朴素、喜庆的形象之一，娃娃正面站立，圆头，两肩平张，两臂下垂或上举，两腿分开，手足皆外撇。抓髻娃娃——生命与繁衍之神、吉祥和幸福的象征。最突出功能是生殖繁衍，其次才是驱鬼、辟邪、招魂等，她是母系氏族社会女性生殖崇拜的一种原始图腾文化的遗存，原型可以追溯到古代历史神话传说人物女娲。龙，是中国人独特的一种文化凝聚和积淀，已扎根和深藏于我们每个人的潜意识里头。龙在中国传统文化中代表着权势、高贵、尊荣的象征，又是幸运和成功的一个标志。龙还有另一个文化象征意义，即：出类拔萃，不同凡俗。龙是神物，非凡人可比。

    最后，通过这份课业，让我更加想要去弘扬剪纸艺术，因为其形态的美和所表达的情感都让我为之震撼，也期望通过这次的中华艺术活动，能有更多的人喜欢剪纸这门艺术门类活动。

         The paper-cut works that I want to appreciate are Cattle, Zhaji Doll and Dragon. People usually regard cattle as a representative of diligence and sincerity, especially in the past farming society, without the assistance of modern mechanized farming operations, so the role of cattle in agricultural farming is very important. And it is precisely because the cow plays an important role in human beings that we can see the image of the cow in many traditional folk paper-cut artworks which means that there will be a lot of money in the next year. The “Zhaji Doll '' is one of the most ancient, exaggerated, simple, and festive images in Chinese folk paper-cutting art. The doll stands in front of it with a round head, shoulders flat, arms drooping or raised, legs separated and both hands outside. The Zhaji doll-the god of life and reproduction, a symbol of auspiciousness and happiness. The most prominent function is reproduction, followed by exorcising ghosts, warding off evil spirits, evocative spirits, and so on. She is a relic of a primitive totem culture of female reproduction worship in matrilineal clan society. The prototype can be traced back to ancient historical myths and legends Nu Wa. The dragon is a unique cultural cohesion and accumulation of Chinese people which has been rooted and deeply hidden in each of our subconsciousness. The dragon represents a symbol of power, nobility, and honor in traditional Chinese culture, and it is also a symbol of luck and success. The dragon also has another cultural symbolism, namely: outstanding and extraordinary. The dragons are fetish, comparable to extraordinary people.

Finally, through this coursework, I want to promote the art of paper-cutting even more because the beauty of its form and the emotion it expresses shocked me. I also hope that through this Chinese art activity more people will like it. Paper-cutting is an art activity.