Inspiration Of Paper-cut Art Form And Image Performance Style To Modern Design

Chinese folk paper-cut art, carrying on a deep cultural connotation, is one of the recourses that our country's folk culture springs from. The paper-cutting has been integrated into ordinary Chinese people's social lives, as clothing, diet, residence, holiday customs, etiquettes, beliefs and taboos, and has become the plainest artistic thought and artistic language manifestation of people's working lives. Viewing from the basic modeling characteristic and creation psychology of paper-cut art, its creation objective is to combine practicality with esthetics perfectly, which tallies with modern design's characteristic of attaching great importance to practicality and esthetic demand. At the same time, paper-cut art, with its rich and multiple artistic forms, provides the modern art design and our exploration of Chinese modern art's localization with inexhaustible and inconsumable treasures.Innovation of modern design stems from collisions, blending and influences of the tradition and the modern, the human civilization of the East and the West. From both the esthetic consciousness and the creation modes perspectives, paper-cut art has an intrinsic and definite connection with the modern art design. Therefore, innovation of modern design needs to seek enlightenment and breakthrough in the artistic forms, linguistic symbols and creative thinking from such national culture source, while linking with the current international design philosophy at the same time, in order to facilitate a new leap.The following questions are urgent topics that worth designers' careful pondering and efforts to put to practice, and are the primary focus of this paper: how to combine the non-material cultural heritage with the modern design philosophy; how to connect the traditional national cultural spirit with the spirit of the age; how to inquire the breakthrough point of design innovation; how to obtain inspirations for modern design from models and image cultures of paper-cut art by re-excavating and re-recognizing the element language in paper-cut works, enabling the past to serve the present and enriching the linguistic symbols and manifestation abilities of the modern design.Starting from a general summary of the paper-cut art, the paper seeks to carry out a systematic exploration of paper-cut art's enlightenment to the modern design by analyzing the highly succinct modeling language, mode of layout, rich themes, visual thinking mode, image culture, esthetics and creative thinking. In addition, through case analyses on some successful modern design works, the paper combines the theory with practice and impels the design art innovation. Above all, set in the design cultural context where "the internationalization" of visual symbols is flooded in today's design industry and where the "localized" visual languages are loosing their voices significantly, the present paper returns the research of traditional paper-cut art to its original national cultural depth and explores its meanings to the modern design innovation.