The explosive popularity of paper flowers in Ukraine, a huge number of craftsmen, an incredibly wide range of ideas and prices — all this makes you think about the questions, the answers to which will help you make a choice.

1.What is the basis of paper floral decoration, what is the idea? What is its artistic value?

2. What made him so popular in Ukraine and the world? What is its beauty?

3. Why are paper flowers so popular instead of household items or nature?

4. What is the difference between decor and installation?

5. If the idea of ​​flowers is primary, then where are the alternative materials in their production? And if the primary material (fashion paper), then why flowers?

6. Where is the line between paper floral decor and props?

7. Maybe this is a trend, on which many speculate, replacing demand with home-made supply?

There are many questions. How to be — everyone decides for himself, but it’s worth answering one question: are you interested in paper decor as a piece of art or props? This is very important. When deciding on paper decoration as a work of art, remember form and content, where form is understood as orderliness of content — its internal connection and order.

Remember that art, although applied, according to Aristotle, is deeply meaningful; like philosophy, it promotes the knowledge of things. It reproduces the objective reality. Do not forget about the artistic form as the re-creation of objective and subjective reality in the expressive means of art.

Remember that the object of aesthetic interest, according to I. Kant, is not the real object itself, but the form of the object. UNDERSTANDING of these things is fraught with the purchase of paper props that imitate real things badly.

Objects of props differ in cheapness, durability, underlined expressiveness of the external form (in their manufacture they usually refuse to reproduce details that are invisible to the viewer).