The Diversified Study Of The Space Expression Of Paper Art

Paper is one of the four great inventions of ancient China, it’s not only an important carrier of human civilization, but also an Ideal material which could show the ingenuity of human beings. Paper Art use paper as it’s main material, it takes various of method and finally become an artwork. No matter is in Calligraphy painting or in the folk life, the traditional Paper Art is always providing abundant form for the modern Paper Art. The Paper Art in our country includes paper folding, paper cutting, paper tearing, paper binding, paper sculptures, paper-weaving picture, paper hollowing, paper embroid, paper-pulp art and so on. Recent years, paper cutting has been lists as a world heritage by the UNESCO, the appearance of many folk artists committed in paper cutting like Ku Shulan, Wang Guiying and other experts in paper area have pulled this kind of art to the front stage of people’s attention. In fact, there are many ways to show the beauty of paper, although it’s usually typical in two-dimensional, there are many in the three-dimensional, for example, paper fan, paper umbrella, paper clothes and paper tent in daily lives; paper vehicles, paper horses, paper sculptures and paper buildings in religious sacrifice activities; paper folding, paper kite, paper lanterns and paper toy in entertainment. All these things build up the rich space modeling of paper and make it break the limit of time and space. This passage is going to focus on the study of the three-dimensional shape of paper.The space expression of paper is popular in today’s world. like the paper folding in Japan, the paper quilling in the UK and the paper sculpture and movable book in Europe. They spread by the Internet and was known by people all over the world, beside surprising by these novel ways of arts, many of them were deeply attracted by the diversification of these modern-packing Paper Art. They turned their attention from two-dimensional to three-dimensional and continuing explore other ways in paper space expression.This passage discuss in these following aspect : 1. The original of Paper Art; 2. The morphology analysis of the space model of Paper Art in China; 3.The morphology analysis of the space model of Paper Art in foreign countries; 4. The diversity of the space constitute of Paper Art and the aesthetic implication it express; 5. The heritage and development of Paper Art. It can summarize as original, technology, skill, rhythm, dimensions. I hope that through my study and explore, this could become a reference in studying the paper’s history, the future of paper, and the morphology analysis of the space model of Paper Art.