Research On The Contemporary Nature Of Lu Shengzhong's Folk Paper Art

As an important part of folk culture,folk paper-cut art has been supporting the development of national culture in a unique way.Under the influence of many aspects,from the second half of the 20 th century,the development of the folk paper-cut art gradually declined.The urgent sense of crisis and mission requires a new generation of art creators to shoulder the responsibility of inheriting the folk paper-cut art and make it have new features in the new period.The concept of folk art with yin-yang view and life view as the core is the essence of traditional Chinese folk culture.Survival and reproduction has always been the common character of biological survival,with a pair of scissors to cut Yin and Yang,Yin and Yang together to give birth to all things,all living things.With the unique form of paper-cut art,the artist Lu Shengzhong divides the paper-cut little red man into positive and negative images,which are born in the opposite party.It not only makes Yin and Yang harmonize in people's hearts,but also conveys people's perception of real life and perception of life.The symbol of life and eternal red soul from a distant place into people's lives,bring people's spiritual comfort.Lu Shengzhong's paper-cut art,looking at tradition and looking at modernity,not only retains the most unadorned part of the traditional folk paper-cut art,but also has the most distinctive contemporary artistic creation.Lu Shengzhong's original conception of the spirit of paper-cutting is to use scissors to find a gap on the paper that can be related to the past and the present,to pay close attention to the survival value of people in a realistic situation,so that art can truly enter the spiritual world of contemporary people.The little red man in the folk paper-cut art is a portrait of people's soul.It not only represents the soul of each person,but also is a mirror that warns people to correct their body and cultivate their mind.Some are from bewilderment and madness,some are from sadness and fear,some are from life,and in the end they become allthings.With the help of the simple and complete combination of Yin and Yang of the little red man,the displaced soul is able to find the body and return to the desired position,which is the most real desire and life experience Lu Shengzhong has realized in his artistic creation.Lu Shengzhong able to his own artistic creation deeply rooted in the folk traditional art,and on the basis of folk paper-cut art got the sublimation,from The Chi Chu,to The Evocation of Fame,to The Activity of Red Train,he has been working to explore how the traditional folk paper-cut unique language and expression form of art,in the form of a kind of extremely rich significance into the creation of contemporary art.It can be said that the emergence of the little red man not only surpasses the life experience of the artist himself to some extent,but also turns the tradition into the avant-garde and makes the nation an excellent model for the world.Lu Shengzhong's road of artistic creation has given many inspirations to the new generation of artists.Under the continuous influence of the social and cultural environment,people gradually forget the characteristics and basic connotation of the folk paper-cut art.Therefore,it is urgent to explore the contemporary nature of Lu Shengzhong's paper-cut art and explore the inner origin of paper-cut little red man.These contents are of great significance to the inheritance and innovation of folk paper-cut art,which not only infuse fresh blood and fertile nutrients into Chinese contemporary art creation,but also penetrate into the blood of art creators,thus producing high-level artistic creation with contemporary signs.