jueves, 16 de mayo de 2013

What is Origami?


Origami



Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding, to obtain figures of various shapes. In Spanish is also known as 'origami'.

In the origami not used scissors or glue or staples, only paper and hands. Therefore, with only a few sheets of paper can be obtained various geometrical bodies (sometimes polyhedrons) or lifelike figures. The different figures obtained from a sheet of paper may have different areas and volumes.

According to Eastern philosophy, origami brings calm and patience those who practice, common feature of many therapies based on manual exercise.

Currently Origami

Origami is defined as an art education in which people develop their artistic and intellectual expression. It also exposed the essence that lies behind those fingers folded papers to give birth to innumerable figures.

The particularity of this technique is to transform paper into shapes of different size and symbolism, from an initial base square or rectangular models can range from simple to highly complex folded. Preferred subjects for modeling are animals and other elements of nature such as flowers, trees among other reasons.