The 24th Winter Olympic Games will kick off in Beijing on February 4, 2022.
The sports department of Chinanews.com launched a series of columns "Hundred Questions about Winter Olympics", aimed at popularizing Winter Olympic knowledge, answering hot questions, sharing interesting stories about ice and snow, and helping everyone have a better watching experience during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The 50th Winter Olympics Hundred Questions丨How does the art of seal cutting "live" in the Winter Olympics?
The Olympic sports icon is one of the basic image elements of the Olympic Games. It not only has a strong function, but also an important carrier to convey the concept of the Olympic Games and the culture of the host country.
From the Beijing Olympics to the Beijing Winter Olympics, how did China make the art of seal cutting "live" in the arena?
Beijing Paralympic Winter Games sports icons.
Photo courtesy of Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games sports icons take the seal character structure as the basic form, and have both the appearance and interest of ancient Chinese oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions and the simplification of modern graphics. This makes the sports icons show distinctive sports characteristics, elegant sports beauty and beauty. Rich cultural connotation.
In January this year, the sports icons for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics were officially released.
These sports icons are the fusion of seal cutting and Chinese characters. They echo the "China Seal", the emblem of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and are another "Chinese cultural symbol" in the Olympic movement.
The icon design of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Paralympic Games ingeniously combines winter sports elements with traditional Chinese culture. It not only shows the characteristics of winter sports challenging oneself and the pursuit of excellence, but also embodies the profoundness and depth of traditional Chinese culture.
Beijing Winter Olympics sports icon (white text).
Photo courtesy of Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee
There are 30 sports icons for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics, including 24 sports icons for the Beijing Winter Olympics and 6 sports icons for the Beijing Winter Paralympics.
However, the conversion of two-dimensional seal cutting into three-dimensional animation, highly refined classic movements in a short time of 2-3 seconds, presents the characteristics of sports, and at the same time conforms to the sports norms, it becomes a problem to naturally embody traditional Chinese culture.
In this regard, Jin Jun, the deputy dean of the School of Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, said that the powder "collapsed" during the contact between the carving knife and the stone can be related to snowflakes and ice flowers. "This creates a connection from static to dynamic. The combination of this traditional art and fashionable ice and snow sports, the movement of the knife, the movement of ice and snow, from static to dynamic, from ancient times to the present, has new vitality."
It is worth mentioning that the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Paralympic Winter Games have a red background color, which symbolizes the sunrise in the east, represents enthusiasm and hope, and also celebrates the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics during the Spring Festival. atmosphere.
(Wang Yu)