Study On The Chinese Paper-cutting Art Integrating With Greek Mythology

Among Chinese folk arts, Chinese folk paper-cut art is characterized with remarkable representativeness. With a unique style and a long history, it is filled with sophistication and conclusion of working people’s attitude towards life, emotion, nature and rational pursuit, displaying the spirituality of Chinesenational artists and working people, and reflecting the characteristics of the times. The Chinese paper-cut art is like doggerel for the Chinese folk artists toexpress feelings, as well as a long song of Chinese folk art. The paper-cut art is diversified in varieties: the pure color paper-cut is elegant, dignified and vivid; the compound-color paper-cut is rich in color and distinct in gradation; thehalftone paper-cut is beautiful in color and lovely. The paper-cut art relies on the national spirit and historical background, as a modern and traditional artistic expression form, and it flows in the long process of art with unique culturalcharm and artistic quality. It is the accumulation and deposits of Chinese national culture, integrating the local conditions and customs of all nations in China, and it is one of the foundations and sources for the artistic workers to create. Since the development of Chinese paper-cut art till today, how to get the Chinese folk art known to more people should be considered by every artistic worker. How to make fresh and new attempt in art and inspire new vigor with new artistic creation form and content for touching more people, so that breakthrough can be found, and new inspiration and experience can be obtained. Therefore, many people are making efforts, and the occurrence of leave-cut and feather-cut is attractive, enriching the content and form of paper-cut. What belo ngs to the national belongs to the world. How to get the paper-cut popular in the world, and how to integrate such art form with the western civilization should be thought and sought for by each art workers. In this paper, it tries to change the content and form of the paper-cut art and integrate it with the Greek mythology, which will allow more people to learn about the Chinese paper-cut art, so that the paper-cut art will become a new landscape in the integration ofChinese and western civilization.