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Interesting Info About Puppets |
| Date Added: October 27, 2010 03:47:52 AM |
| Author: suammer82 |
| Category: Arts: Crafts |
| The word puppet usually brings up an association with kids because contemporary puppet theater is basically oriented on the children audience. This type of theater originates from ancient times. It was mentioned in the works of ancient Greeks like Aristotle and Plato, but ancient puppet art was not described in details. Puppets were also applied in the form of tribal masks in different religious rituals long time ago. But at present time puppets represent a symbol of happiness and are applied to entertain people, both kids and adults. On the whole a puppet doll represents an inanimate figure of a person or an animal. The figure is animated or manipulated by puppeteer that allows to arrange performances with puppets. Puppet art is rather developed these days. There are different types of puppets, the most popular amidst which are the below mentioned. Hand puppets, or glove puppets, are the most popular kind of puppets. Hand puppet dolls are composed of a head made from various materials, such as wood, papier-mache or cardboard cylinders, and a body constituting a cloth in the form of glove that is put on the hand of puppeteer. When puppeteer moves fingers, the puppet becomes animated. One of the varieties of hand puppets is finger puppets. As it's evident from their name such puppet dolls are put on fingers. They are small and look like children toys. Another widespread kind of puppet dolls is represented by marionettes. Marionette is a puppet with strings attached to various parts of its body. By pulling the strings puppeteer has an opportunity to manipulate the puppet and make it move. Marionettes are applied both for entertainment and in professional puppet theater plays. There is one more interesting type of puppets named shadow puppets. A shadow puppet is a flat figure cut out in such a way that, when using a directed source of light, it produce a shadow of a certain personage on a translucent screen. Shadow theater was invented in Asia in the 5th century. It used to enjoy wide popularity in various parts of the world. These days shadow puppet theater is extremely popular in Indonesia. |
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