The Methodology For Rejuvenation Of Paper Cutting Trend Based On Contemporary Design

Flower carving has a history of over a thousand years in China.Along with the improvement of papermaking technology,it gradually shifts into the artistic form of “paper cutting” that utilizes the “thin material and hollow out” technique,radiating a unique charm.Folk paper cutting is a form of folk art that is spontaneously created and circulated in the traditional folk custom life of the Chinese farming community.It is also a part of people's native life.From the auspicious themes,folk creations,and use of artifacts,paper cutting has infiltrated China's traditional social life and farming methods.With the passage of time,it has formed a unique set of creative form of language with a distinctive “Chinese style”,and continues to develop in the course of history.Nowadays,“Reform and Opening” have brought about a series of changes in human ecological environment,which have led to the indisputable reality that folk handicraft art is growing barren.Therefore,“taking time as eyes and fashion as outline”,this paper originates from Chinese folk paper cutting and conducts extensive study of the typical design practice cases,aiming at establishing a “new unity” that is in line with the local knowledge system with the bidirectional trail of “local globalization” and “global localization”.The paper summarizes the principles of paper cutting's contemporary construction at the conceptual level,provides practical guidance at the operational level and concludes innovative designing methods of paper cutting's contemporary construction so that it could travel through time and regenerate in modern society in the name of fashion.The paper starting with the characteristics of practical research in design disciplines,the paper introduces the background,main research content,purpose and significance of the paper,and summarizes the current status of theoretical research at home and abroad to lay the groundwork for the practical methods of paper-cutting innovative design.In Chapter One,“The fashion trend transformation and modernity of paper cutting”,this paper uses fashion as the clue,traces the source of this historically decorative art and discusses that in the course of its over one thousand years' of development,it is the factor of “fashion” that activates the trend transformation and the factor “rejuvenation” achieve its feasibilities of paper cutting.In the contemporary Chinese urbanization context,being situated in the context of traditional art fault,human environment transition,fashion-orientation deviation and other objective factors,paper cutting is facing with survival crisis.This paper further points out the possibility for paper cutting to return to contemporary fashion through innovative designing methods.In Chapter Two,“the contemporary context of paper-cutting with the interpretation of fashion”,this paper sorts out the contemporary communication channels and presentations of the ageold yet ever-new word-fashion.At the same time,it elaborates on how “traditional” paper cutting continues to take organic renovation to comply with the age and fashion,thus manifesting the initiative adaptability in the changing process of its forms and styles.In the meanwhile,it analyzes that a series of social humanity changes,which were triggered in the course of urbanization,resulted in the increasingly complication of fashion structural model and regeneration mechanism of traditional culture and brought about the new path of fashion communications such as “decentration” and “bottom-up”.It further provides strong supports for the urban regeneration of paper-cutting in the way of “Chinese-style Westernization”.In Chapter Three,“the contemporary construction of paper cutting as a cultural element”,this paper discusses that the expansion of cultural element artistry to contemporary multidimensional design is an important approach for paper cutting to realize innovative design in the contemporary construction.It probes into the multiple cultural values of paper cutting as a typical Chinese folk-art form in contemporary times.Furthermore,the paper puts forward the two-way construction of artistic context: “anesthetization of daily life” and “lifelization of art” in the metaphysical way.It demonstrates and constructs the relations between paper cutting and modern designs by means of the cultural elements implied in the pattern of paper cutting.With such,it puts forward the principles of paper cutting's contemporary construction on the conceptual level.In Chapter Four,“The innovative approach of paper cutting” discusses that the combination of self-optimization with communication and interaction is an important connotation for paper cutting to integrate with innovative design under the contemporary construction.From the thinking of “global localization”,this paper explores how to associate modern factors such as fashion,design techniques and aesthetic economy,with traditional and classic paper cutting.It puts forward the feasible path for paper cutting to rejuvenate in the contemporary urbanization context and on the physical level.In the meanwhile,this paper constructively indicates that attention diversion and expansion is one of the important approaches to carry out innovative design for paper cutting under the contemporary construction.The author condenses design methods to organize and carry out a contemporary reformation experiment for those traditional Chinese folk arts that are characterized with ethnic and cultural elements from the angle of “global localization”.The paper conducts practical observations of “paper cutting innovative design” for over seventy professional designers of diverse cultural backgrounds,examines the condensed design methods and then explores and puts forward more possibilities of paper cutting's innovative designs in the contemporary globalization context from the multicultural perspective.In the part of “Conclusion and Prospect”,this paper draws conclusions and indicates that with the renewal of “contemporary”,the contemporary construction of paper cutting is bound to adjust accordingly by adding up new contents so as to find approaches for the integration with contemporary context.In the process of innovative design,paper cutting will constantly focus on the epoch topic of “inheritance and development”,lay poetic expression on “folk-custom” and “civil use”,and seek sustainable development ways in the modern fashion environment with ideas inheritance and practical activation.