The creative philosophy of traditional flower arranging and a detailed explanation of the classification of floral art
Artistic flower arranging requires mastering the characteristics of various materials, and according to creative requirements and techniques, achieving all-round color and mood.
Oriental traditional flower arranging is a kind of artistic flower arranging, aimed at expressing the natural beauty of plants.
The basic requirement of Oriental traditional flower arranging is that it needs to conform to the natural growth of plants. The growth of natural plants basically extends from one point to the periphery.
When arranging flowers, the bottoms of the branches should be close together to show their natural vitality. When expressing plum blossoms, the posture of slanted horizontal tree shadows should be shown; bamboo should have its upright and vigorous momentum.
Understanding the characteristics of these materials comes from nature, is taken from nature, and reproduces nature. In addition to floral materials, the flower form also needs to conform to the natural form of plants.
Traditional floral art theory draws on the structure of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy, and is the root of floral art creation. Oriental artistic flower arranging has always paid more attention to the expressive power of linear materials, because linear materials are more dynamic and more lively.
Therefore, traditional flower arranging often uses woody branches as the main floral material, and adopts different forms of branches to express different extended beauty and connotative beauty, whether strong in momentum, or slender in beauty, or smooth and even, or stretching for a thousand li, or winding and turning. The expressive power of branch art gives floral design unlimited creativity, making the work more vivid, more artistic, and more artistically expressive.
There are also several important flower arranging techniques: high and low, mixed, virtual and real, solid, dense. "Too elaborate" means there are many floral materials, it looks larger than the container, and seems both heavy and light; "too thin" means the flowers in the bottle are thinner, light in weight yet heavy, seemingly empty and simple. Traditional flower arranging methods place great emphasis on emotion and mood.
Therefore, when emotion arrives, it is difficult to give an exact size, but generally it should be mastered. Strong and powerful branches can be shorter, and slender branches can be longer. Some flowers can use fewer colors, and more pure flowers can be used. The proportions of traditional flower arranging are relatively free.