Paper Cutting Art

Basic Information

• Year of birth: 1924-2004
• Nationality: Han
• Sex: Female
• Native place: Fucun Village, Equator Township, Xunyi Country, Xianyang, Shaanxi

Personal Profile

Ku Shulan, female, born in 1924, born in 2004 in Fucun Village, Equator Township, Xunyi County, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, is one of the outstanding representatives of Chinese folk paper-cut art, a master of Chinese folk arts and crafts, and is known as the "Lady of Cutting Flowers".

Ku Shulan was born in a poor peasant family. At the age of six, he began to learn paper-cutting and painting with his mother. Its paper-cut style is bold in composition, full in characters and bright in color, which soon attracted the attention of the art world.

Her art paper-cut has also been in Xi'an Artists Gallery, The National Art Museum of China and the Exhibition Hall of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 1996, she was awarded the title of "Outstanding Master of Folk Art" by UNESCO, the first Chinese to receive this title.

Color represented by Ku Shulan Paper-cut has been listed in the national intangible cultural heritage protection list.

Paper-cut style introduction

Ku Shulan paper-cut has innovated on the basis of inheriting the traditional folk paper-cut art. She does not rigidly adhere to the traditional paper-cutting techniques and uses a variety of bright colors. The unique composition and layout create a new paper-cut art. And make full use of the characteristics of image narrative.

The inherent information content and emotional characteristics make it more narrative through the ingenious design of color, shape and composition. Paper-cut works continue to stretch from small pictures, intuitively telling every little story, viewers can feel the life of Guanzhong, into Ku Shulan. Inside.

In the hands of Ku Shulan, paper is no longer ordinary, it connects local life and ancient culture, and expresses Ku Shulan's deep feelings and inner beliefs.