China's six major characteristics of folk art

Chinese folk art is the Chinese people at large in order to meet their social needs and create a visual image of the arts. Folk art with the court, nobles, scholars and literati Painting Studio and the art of professional artists in terms of the relative. First, on its creators, it is the creation of hundreds of millions of workers of the arts groups, not a few professional artists to create art. It is the producer of art, not professional artists of the arts; It is amateur in nature, not a professional in nature.
Second, on its social function, it is mainly to include the production and living, daily life, life rituals, taboos and belief in their own artistic life, social life and the need to create, not for commodity production and to create the social and political needs.
Throughout history, from primitive society, Chinese groups in the workforce for their own need to create tools and appliances, housing and living at the same time, but also created a national arts groups. Class society, folk art derived from individual professional artists and arts, the resulting system of the Chinese nation two major arts and cultural and artistic heritage of the two, the former is from the beginning of the prehistoric culture of hundreds of millions of workers to create the cultural and artistic heritage groups, after Who is the individual identity of the professional artists and art created by masters of culture and arts heritage. The main Chinese art, is from these two parts and components and the two systems affect each other, parallel to move forward. From the national culture as a whole, civil culture and the arts are relatively stable, represents a major historical stages of the ethnic groups awareness, emotional and psychological characteristics of temperament. Folk arts and culture have eternal vitality, not cultural groups as long as the demise of the Chinese nation, national culture created by groups of folk art will never perish. China's traditional folk art will be the development of the times and development of human cultural development in the mutual exchanges with the impact of new embryonic folk art, will be the new materials and art forms, but万变不离其宗, this case is that the Chinese nation The primitive culture and primitive core philosophy, that is the culture of the Chinese nation.
Chinese folk art with six basic characteristics.
1, it is the creator of the Chinese nation at large groups.
2, which is to include the production of labor, daily life, life rituals, the festive customs, beliefs taboo Life and the arts, the social life of their own needs and create art.
3, its cultural content and artistic form, represents a group of Chinese national culture primitive world view, aesthetics, emotional temperament, psychological quality and the national spirit, reflects the primitive culture of the Chinese system of philosophy, the arts system, shape and color system System. Therefore, the more broad groups of folk art category, the more a reflection of the Chinese cultural connotation and primitive art forms, such as daily life and folklore groups and social life are closely linked to the surface flowers, paper cutting, clothing, embroidery, dyeing , Nuo-exorcise Nuo masks, folk paintings, pictures, Shadowgraph, puppets, toys, kites, with the lights Zhizha arts, drama Face of civil society, civil chess puzzle, civil ceramics, sculpture and residential areas of civil construction, decoration Travel And appliances, and other life.
4, it is the Chinese art of the mother. Chinese folk art was born in China's primitive society, in a few thousand years of long history, reflects the historical development of various stages of development of national culture and arts heritage, so it has a national cultural tradition of continuity.
5, it has a distinctive national identity with the geographical and cultural characteristics.
6, art created by the use of tools and materials are readily available, Jiudiqucai, with the rural nature of the regional economic characteristics.
In short, China is China's national folk art in the art of the most extensive and most closely related to social life, the most abundant historical and cultural connotations, the most broad geographical, ethnic geographical characteristics of the most distinctive ancient representative of the cultural patterns. It contains our nation from primitive society to a Qibaqiannian today's historical and cultural accumulation, from nature worship and totem worship, the original ancestor worship and cultural monuments until the modern culture of the people of the commodity economy, such as archaeological excavations in the distinction between cultural layer Like, even in the works can be a distinction between different historical periods and cultural connotation of accumulation, it can say it is a national history and culture of living fossils and museums. Chinese folk art in the definition of the concept there are some misunderstanding, there is a need to be pointed out that:
First, that "the arbitrariness of artistic creation" is a Chinese folk
The basic characteristics of art, I do not think so. Because the Chinese literati paintings also arbitrary, professional artists are also arbitrary practices of art and artistic style, it can not be used to define the concept of folk art. Moreover, folk art style approach is also very rich, are not arbitrary.
Second, that "decorative deformation" China is the basic characteristic of folk art, I do not think yes. China is not deformed because of decorative folk art style tactics by the unique, professional artists have decorated in the style of deformation practices. Schools in modern art, decorative deformation almost become a fashion trend of the times and can not therefore be called folk art. Moreover, the most fundamental is not decorated and deformation, but in how decorative and how deformation. Chinese folk art of decorative art form deformation, is primitive by the Chinese system of philosophy, art and aesthetics system decided by the art form, the Chinese professional artists and art is different, and modern Western art genre is the decoration is essentially different from the deformation The.
Third, some professional artists to the study of folk art, so that their works of art with folk art style, so that their art is folk art, folk art is also his home, in fact, this is confusing is the producer of folk art The arts, is the producer of hundreds of millions of working groups for their own social life of service to this basic concept to define. Even reached a "fake people" artistic effect, it should be said is still professional painter of modern art, and can not be called folk art and folk artists.
Fourth, folk art and crafts are two different concepts, can not be confused. Folk arts and crafts folk art is in a stronger and even some of the skills of folk art, folk art .
Does not necessarily have a process and the value of technology and civil process is a process of folk art. Folk art and crafts is being inclusive and tolerant relations.
Fifth, folk art and folk art. Folk is the carrier of folk art, folk art is the perspective of art, folk art is folk perspective, the perspective is different. From the perspective of folk customs, folk art can also call it folk art.