It's Chinese New Year and for thousands of years, the Chinese use paper-cuts laden with auspicious symbols to decorate their homes and to usher in the new year. The often common and gloomy atmosphere of poverty stricken homes that know no colour is given much life with freshly cut bright red paper cuts. Such is the psychological benefit of art.
Folks art is art by the ordinary people for ordinary social needs. A labourer's hand and a cheap pair of scissors transform a rough piece of paper into magic. This is what i call the raw expression of creativity...
Traditionally in China, folk art is done by the ordinary villager who toils the fields for a living but engages in folk art during non-harvesting periods either for leisure or to sell works for extra income. The unpolished beauty of such works often intrigued and touched me but not those intricate and artisically excellent art that mimick the style of folk art produced in artisan studios as much as i admire their quality.
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