Oriental flower arrangement emphasizes sparseness
Eastern flower arrangement originated in China, as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, flower arrangement was used as a flower offering before the Buddha. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, flower arrangement expanded from offering flowers in front of the Buddha to the court and folk, and flower culture appeared. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the art of flower arrangement entered a period of prosperity. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the art of flower arrangement developed to its peak, and monographs on flower arrangement also appeared. The art of flower arrangement was introduced to Japan along with the exchange of cultural and religious activities, and was developed in Japan.
Let's first look at the characteristics of oriental flower arrangement
(1) Advocating nature. Eastern flower arrangement is based on the natural form of plants, and through the author's artistic creation, the works are full of natural vitality and beauty.
(2) Pay attention to the artistic conception and convey the gods in form. Oriental flower arrangement not only pays attention to the physical beauty and color beauty of the flower material, but also pays more attention to the communication of flowers, the use of flowers to reach the meaning, and both form and god. It not only pursues the connotation and charm of flower arrangement works, but also pays attention to the external morphological beauty and color beauty of the works.
(3) Pay attention to line modeling. Oriental flower arrangement outlines different forms that are either flowing or rough through the changes of different lines, thickness, strength, solidity, density, curvature, and bumps. This kind of flower arrangement does not lose its natural style, diverse forms, graceful and colorful, and has strong expressiveness.
(4) The color is simple and elegant. The oriental flower arrangement uses exquisite and refined flower materials, not to win by quantity, but to win with the posture and quality of flower materials. The use of flowers is mostly woody, and there are few types of flowers used in the works, the number is small, and the color is simple.
(5) Oriental flower arrangement pays attention to the characteristics of the season, and selects flowers with the characteristics of the season in different seasons to focus on the theme of the season. Such as Lan Tao Yingchun, Lotus Durian Pi Xia, Ju Gui Hu Qiu, Mei Zhu Dou Han and so on. Let people truly feel the scene of the four seasons of nature.
Let's look at the art form of Oriental flower arrangement
The art form of Oriental flower arrangement can be roughly divided into two categories: Shenghua and Vase Flower. The so-called "Shenghua" refers to the flower arrangement works that use "Sword Mountain" or flower mud in the flower vessel with a wide mouth and shallow body. Vase flowers refer to flower arrangement works that are inserted in a flower vessel with a small mouth and a height.
Eastern flower arrangements use asymmetrical natural compositions. The basic composition forms are upright, inclined, flat, saging and other four categories, but there is no constant fixed format, on the basis of the basic composition form, according to the theme of the work and the natural form of the plant, through the high and low staggered, dynamic echo, pitching, rigid and soft twists and turns to obtain the magic of nature, the formation of a kaleidoscopic asymmetrical natural structure. His works are fresh and natural, beautiful and colorful.
Therefore, the use of small flowers and fruits depends on the theme of your flower arrangement and the artistic conception you want to express, for example, what you want to express is a wide atmosphere feeling, then the small flowers and fruits are only suitable for sporadic embellishment to set off the theme:
And if you want to express the style of small family jasper, you can use a lot of small flowers and fruits, but pay attention to the level, such as this: