Chinese-Folk-Art.ppt

Chinese Folk Art Directed by:May Shadow Jeff Amy Rainn1Embroidery2Chinese folk art is an important part of our extremely rich cultural and art heritage andhas won recognition and praise from people both at home and abroad.Today,our group will introduce you some famous ChineseFolk ArtEmbroidery,mask,shadow show,dough figurines and paper cutting.3 Embroidery is a brilliant pearl in Chinese art.From the magnificent Dragon Robes by emperors to todays fashions,embroidery adds a great deal of pleasure to our culture and our lives.The Chinese word for embroidery is“xiu”,a picture or embroidery in five colours.It implies beautiful and magnificent things.4 Embroidery was an elegant task for ladies who were forbidden togo out of their homes.It was agood pastime towhich they coulddevote their intelligence and passion.Imagine a beautiful young lady embroidering a daintypouch.Stitch by stitch,she embroiders a pair of love birds for her lover.It is a cold winterday and the room is filled with the aroma of incense.What a touching and beautiful picture!5 There are mainly four famous chinese embroidery,they are SuXiou、XiangXiou、ShuXiou and YueXiou.Embroidery is mostoften used on caps,hats,coats,blankets,dress shirts,denim,stockings,andgolf shirts.Embroidery is available with a wide variety ofthread or yarncolor.6Traditional Croatian embroidery.EmbroideredEaster eggs.Works by Inna Forostyuk,the folk master from theLuhanskRegion.7Commercial machine embroidery in chain stitchon a voile curtain,China,Early 21st century.Nowadays,our countryhave paid much attention on the protection of Chinese folk art.There are many embroiderymuseum.Chinese embroidery art galleryis located in suzhou high-tech zone town lake street,is the nations largest professional embroidery pavilion.Someday I will go there,do you want to go?8Masks A mask is an object normally worn on the face,typically for protection,disguise,performance or entertainment.Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes.They are usually worn on the face,although they may also be positioned for effect elsewhere on the wearers body.9 One of the challenges in the study of man is finding the precise derivation of his culture and early activities,with the invention and use of the mask only area of unsolved inquiry.The use of masks dates back to several millennia.It is conjectured that the first mask may have generally been used by primitive man to associate wearer with some kind of unimpeachable authority.10 Masks are familiar and vivid element in many folk and traditional pageants,ceremonies,rituals and festivals,and are often with an ancient origin.The mask is normally a part of custom that adorns the whole body and embodies a traditional importance to the religious and social life of the community as whole or particular group within the community.11Nowadays masks are usually make of plastic material,often are associated with popular films,TV programs or cartoon characters-they are ,however,reminders of enduring power of pretence and play and the power and appear of masks.12 Ritual masks occur throughout the world,and although they tend to share many characteristics,highly distinctive forms have developed.The function of the masks may be magical or religious;they may appear in rites of passage or make-up for a form of theatre.13Particular and beautiful types of masks for performance.14 In China,masks are thought to have originatly in ancient religious ceremonies.Images of people wearing masks have been found in rock paintings along the Yangtze River.Later mask forms brings together myths and symbols from Shamanism Buddhism.Opera masks were used a basic“common”form of opera performed without a stage or backdrops.These led to colorful facial patterns that we see in todays Jingju(Beijing opera).15shadow show16.Shadow show is a type of drama which has its roots in China.The Chinese shadow theatre is a form of puppetry that is performed by moving figures made of animal skins or cardboard held behing a screen lit by lamplight.The subject matter and singing style in shadow plays are closely related to Chinese opera,except without using live actors or actresses.17.Shadow puppets were first made of paper sculpture,later from the hides of donkeys or oxen.That is why the Chinese name for shadow puppet is Pi Ying,which means shadows of hides.18.Shadow puppet shows were very popular during the Tang and Song Dynasties.The show began to spread to Europe in the mid-18th century,when French missionaries to China took it back to France in 1767 and put on performance in Paris,which caused quite a stir at that time.19.The puppets in the shadow play are made of translucent leather.Chinese shadow artists first carve out the lines of the design and then dye them in bright colors.These transparent leather puppets become very lively and beautiful under the lantern light.Today,when the motion picture and television have become wide spread throughout the world,foreign tourists in China are still keen to see a performance of this ancient dramatic art.20.Dough figurines(面塑)Nearly every family in the city molded dough pieces during the Spring Festival.They looked nice and tasted good,representing a splendid harvest and wishes for good luck.They were also toys for children.Today,dough-modeling handicraftsmen have turned the products into visual artworks.21.The custom of making dough figurines can be traced back to the late Yuan Dynasty.At the time,Datong people were suppressed by foreign ethnic groups.During fights against rulers,the rebel group would stuff notes inside the dough figurines to deliver secret information.22.After new China was founded in 1949,dough figurines became more delicate and some were even dyed in different colors.Many housewives prefer to carve pictures on the figurines to display their ingenuity and to win praise from relatives and friends.23.24.Folk artist Zhang Hongming displays his works of dough figurines in Changchun,capital of northeast Chinas Jilin Province.Zhang had completed 10,000 dough figurines in five years,which range from world celebrities to ordinary people as well as cartoon characters and so on.25.Papercutting26.Paper cutting can be seen in many parts of china during the spring festival.People paste patterns on the window,door lintel or desks for the festival atmosphere.Its difficult to tell when it originated.One saying is that it originated from the religious ceremony or offering sacrifices.the ancient people cut papers into animals or people.they either buried them with the dead or burned them on the funerals,wishing that things that paper stand for could be with the dead.27.A thousand years ago,paper cutting was used for decoration.According to historic books,women in the tang dynasty used paper cutting as head-dress.In the song dynasty,it was the decoration of the gifts.People pasted on windows or doors or used it as decorations on walls,mirrors or lanterns.Some people made a living by it.28.Paper cutting is all made Paper cutting is all made by hand.It is easy to by hand.It is easy to learn the rudiments.non-learn the rudiments.non-craftsmen need only a craftsmen need only a knife and paper.For knife and paper.For craftsman,they need craftsman,they need knives and gravers of knives and gravers of various types to make various types to make complicated patterns.It complicated patterns.It can be one piece of paper can be one piece of paper or many pieces,or many pieces,simple simple patterns can be cut with a patterns can be cut with a knife,for complicated knife,for complicated patterns,people first patterns,people first pasted the pattern on the pasted the pattern on the paper and then used paper and then used various kinds of knives to various kinds of knives to make it.No mistake can make it.No mistake can be made during the be made during the process otherwise the process otherwise the work would fail.work would fail.29.Papercutting covers nearly all topics,from flowers,birds,animals,legendary people,figures in classic novels,to types of facial make-up in peking opera.Paper cutting has various styles in different parts of China.30.31.Thanks for watching!Directed by:May Shadow Jeff Amy Rainn32.