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Richard
Sweeney: ... I
used paper
modeling as a means to generate form. I placed the emphasis on the
creation of form through hands on material exploration, something paper
lends itself to perfectly. Discovering the properties of the
medium in this direct way helped me
better understand the potential of paper in its own right, leading to
the creation of sculptural forms and various projects.
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Nobutaka
Mukouyama. Make your own paper models of motorcycles, rare
animals and more. Nobutaka Mukouyama took charge of planning and
production of all paper craft series published on the Yamaha Motor Co.,
Ltd. website, including "THE SEASONS," "Rare Animals of Japan," "Rare
Animals of the World" and "Realistic Paper Craft".
Personal site. |
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Beatrice
Coron PAPERCUTTING
LINKS A brief
introduction to papercutting history... Take a piece of
paper: a perfect support for an image. Cut or draw or paint or print or
use all techniques to produce an image. Then fold the paper. You now
have a book, or a sculpture, or an animation. Paper includes support,
movement, interaction.. |
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Margie
Florini. Florini's cut-paper collages are fun, have clear
color, hard edges, and a contemporary graphic art appeal. Using
beautiful Color-Aid matte-finish design papers, these original collages
are the newest designs in a body of work spanning twenty years. Each
one, a result of simple and strong design, is made by piecing papers
side-by-side like a jig-saw puzzle, or by layering for a more 3-D
effect. |
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Wycinanki,
pronounced (Vee-chee-non-key), are Polish
decorative paper cut-outs which are regarded by many as the most
beautiful in the world. The Wycinanki on display at the museum were
made by hand in Poland with sheep-shearing scissors. They were used to
decorate the walls of ceiling beams in countryside cottages and given
as gifts to family members and friends. |
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Susan
Knight. My cut paper work is significant because it
makes visible the properties of water, water stories and water
issues. Using my knowledge of the geography and
ecology of water systems and impacted by alarming stories about
invasive,
non-native aquatic species which damage lakes and rivers in the United
States. |
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Yanxi
Liu and James Hays at the Carnegie Mellon
University and Ying-Qing Xu and Heung-Yeung Shum at Microsoft Research
Asia combine the analysis and synthesis of a papercut pattern into one
automatic process, a general computational formalization, as well as
the generation of a physically feasible folding plan. This is
a 49 pages FREE
pdf study. |
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Ku
ShuLan Once she felt down into a deep ravine and
landed in narcose for a few days. After she woke up, she showed certain
insanity, claiming to be the Goddess of Paper Cutting. She lived in the
colorful paper world she created. From the walls to the ceiling in her
cave-house (local architectural style in ShanXi), her paper imageries
were everywhere. |
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PaperCuts
is the blog of cut-paper artist and illustrator Patrick
Gannon. I’ve grown to love the textures, colors,
patterns and smell of it. My illustration has been featured
in magazines, newspapers, textbooks, advertisements, and a bunch of
other stuff. It pops up in both the US and Japan. |
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Jiaonan
city's Paper-cut have been developed into a
cottage industry. Its best representatives live in Yinzhu
Town. On the
basis of inheriting tradition, people there are creating with a simple
but pure and fresh style, bold exaggeration, concise techniques and
unique conception. Now there is a folk paper-cut army of nearly one
hundred people in Yinzhu Town, with their age ranging from seven or
eight all the way to over 80 years old. |
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Henri
Matisse. Yes the painter... Matisse created art differently
than most artists of his time. He used paper and scissors to compose a
remarkable masterpiece. Since 1940, Matisse has used this art form. He
uses various sizes of shapes made from paper with a gouche' washes of
color. Cutting the designs out, Matisse pastes them onto the art
surface creating a beautiful and aesthetically pleasing work of art. Another
Matisse site. |
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Yee
is a Canadian Artist. His company Yee's Job is located in Montreal. He
designs & handcrafts all kind of paper craft.
Following in the tradition of thousands years of Asian paper cutting.
It is a new and creative way in which to express passions,
imaginations, feelings, ideas and ideals. |
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Su
Blackwell. The work is fragile, precious. There is a desire
to utilise non-art materials; she uses what is at hand. There is an
obsessive, repetitive action at work, transforming the everyday into
the fantastical. She transforms old books into three-dimensional
theatres, and her reconstruction offers up to the viewer many questions. |
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Chris
Natrop. Maintaining structural integrity creates overall
"fluidity" and the
knife will always give way to "precision." Incidentally, if you look
closely at the work you will see a lot of energetic rips, tears and
over-cuts which is very integral to the process. Over time I have
developed a very direct and spontaneous way to make the work. It's
actually more like charcoal drawing than traditional paper
cutting. |
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Minomusi.
ISEKATAGAMI is an old paper hand craft of Japan(MIE
prefecture).Its skill was developed in the time of the Tokugawa
shogunate. (Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry
select ISEKATAGAMI as JAPAN TRADITIONAL CRAFT in 1983 A.D.) The first
use purpose is printing KIMONO PATTERN. It change interior decoration
now. |
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Zhou
family. Chinese famous paper-cut artisans Zhou Yunhua, Zhou
Bing and their family members have shown great talent in the field of
paper-cutting. They participated in art exhibitions at home and abroad
many times, followed by excellent reviews. All of their paper-cuts can
be divided into three main series: black, red, and blue. With most of
the artwork created by the entire Zhou family, it has been suitably
named Zhou Paper-cutting. |
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Hideo
Iwasaki, a contemporary papercut artist. Papercut is
distinguishable from other flat painting categories like drawing,
printing, and woodcut and so on with some characteristics. For example,
it can be seen even if you turn the paper over. So, in my opinion, this
three-dimensional nature and the feeling of freedom must be taken into
consideration for creating papercut. |
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Wendy
McNally. The feathers will shimmer from a light
breeze and from heavy laughter. A harmonious blend of teas and lightly
spirited fruit juices may inspire visionary answers to a stream of
revolutionary quandaries. If the meal ends and you are still without a
mate, wait. Your mental state can flirt with fate, but love is in the
weather and an unpretentious date. in "Touching
The Cord" |
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Makeup
of Peking Opera. 25 x 26 cm, 20 pages, deluxe edition, 550g.
8 real papercuts attached. The facial makeup of Peking Opera,
as a way of facial dressing for different roles in the opera. varies
greatly from role to role. The facial makeup is made though
exaggerating or specially designing the facial expression of the actor
or actress according to conceptualized understanding of the role in the
opera. |
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Thin
line paper-cut, a distinctive genre of Chinese paper cut,
originated from Yueqing, Zhejiang Province. According to local
historical records, thin line paper-cut appeared and developed in the
Southern Dynasty , thanks to the region's thriving economy and frequent
exchanges with the outside world. Different from the plain and bold
northern style, Yueqing thin line paper-cut features a delicate and
exquisite syle and a rich south China charm. |
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Rick
Jones. The art of scherenschnitte. An article by Rick Jones.
Scientific illustrator, painter, and master paper cutter Rick Jones of
Redwood City, California. Rick tucked his paper-cut
snowflakes away in the “fond childhood memories”
compartment. There they stayed until, years later, he enrolled in a
course in Mexican folk art. Among the course topics was paper cutting.
He picked up scissors and tried his hand. |
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Marie-Helene
L. Grabman. My artwork has been described as "traditional
Swiss-German scherenschnitte (scissor cuttings) with elements of
collage". Each original, copyrighted paper cut design is hand
cut with European scissors. Ha ha ha... European
scissors are manufactured in China nowadays... but since when does the
art of the place of origin of a tool follow the tool and land in the
hands of the one who uses the tool? Jeez! |
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Papel
Picado In Mexico, papel picado (perforated paper),
refers to the traditional art of decorative cut paper banners. Usually
cut with sharp fierritos (small chisels) from as many as fifty layers
of colored tissue paper at a time. Designs may incorporate
lattice-work, images of human and animal figures, flowers, and
lettering. Many papel picado are made especially for the Mexican
festival of the Days of the Dead and include skeletal figures... |
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Hans
Christian Andersen's Paper Cuts. About 1,000 paper-cuts of
all sizes still exist to this day – primitive figures and
simple tableaux as well as more ornamental, sophisticated cuttings.
They belong to a world of their own, but they all have their roots in
precisely the same rich, widely embracing creative imagination which in
the nineteenth century revolutionized world literature... |
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"Outlaws
of the Marsh" is somewhat like the Iliad and Odyssey... An
ancient epic tale... no one remembers the period it was composed and
immortalized. One knows this story is based on real facts and
has inspired many storytellers. 108 characters of a novel,
each of them minutiously described ... such is the challenge accepted
by the Chinese craftsmen who created this incredible set or paper-cuts . |
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Nanjing
univ. about papercuts. A good compilation about all the forms
taken by this craft in China: Douxiang
Paper-Cutting, Ansai Paper-Cutting, East Sha'anxi Paper-Cutting, Fushan
Paper-Cutting, Gaomi Paper-Cutting, Binzhou Paper-Cutting, Wei County
Paper-Cutting, Nanjing Paper-Cutting, Pi County Paper-Cutting, Foshan
Paper-Cutting, Taijiang Paper-Cutting, Beijing Shadow Play and the
varieties of Leather Silhouettes... |
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Archie
Granot. His creative papercuts - ketubahs (ketubot),
mizrachs, mezuzahs, blessings for the Jewish life cycle and more - both
revive and continue a traditional Jewish art form while innovating
against it. Distinguished by multiple layers of paper, Granot produces
creative and beautiful papercuts - complex and impressive works, each
cut with surgical scalpel, require a lengthy and intuitive process of
creation... |
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Shoto
Kimura. Being a student of the very traditional Noh
theater -- which is strong in Kyoto -- many of his original
themes are scenes from Noh and Kabuki plays. In Japanese, paper-cut art
is usually called kirie, but Kimura-san calls his art senshi, from the
Chinese. He starts with locally hand made Japanese paper
(washi), usually containing a colored wash. After applying
several layers, he uses small knives to patiently cut the intricate
designs... |
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Dena
Levie has been creating Judaic papercuts for many years and
has completed hundreds of pieces. She enjoys working with
clients to create personalized, one of a kind artwork. Each piece is
intricately cut from one piece of paper. The artwork usually
encompasses names in Hebrew and/or English as well as important symbols
relevant to the client’s life. The backgrounds are hand
painted in a color chosen by the client. |
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Laura
Cooperman received the Grainger Marburg travel grant for her
cut paper work. Laura became engrossed in the delicate, methodical
process of paper cutting and began experimenting with light, depth, and
movement. She is currently planning to travel to China in the
fall to study the traditional art of Chinese paper cutting and to
document and interpret the effects of urban renewal in Beijing through
her cut paper overlays. |
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Peter
Callesen. Lately I have been working almost exclusively with
white paper in different objects, paper cuts, installations and
performances. Some of these objects and installations are copies of
stairs and ladders made out of thin paper. These works derive from my
earlier work, Bridge and Still life, dealing with dreams and the
impossible - but here in a more fragile and almost sublime version. |