An Aesthetic View On The Opening Ceremony

The 29th Olympic Games Held in Beijing is a sports festival of all mankind, and the success of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games have showed Chinese unique cultural charm to the world. The opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics not only have national characteristics but also have a world vision, and not only have characteristics of times but also contains Chinese classical charm,it highlights Chinese culture and creativity. The opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics achieve an exchange and integration between the Chinese culture and the Olympic cultural in a creative way,and it is an development of the Olympic spirit by ancient oriental civilization. The opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games have showed China's national characteristics and features of the times, and it has an unique artistic appeal and a distinctive artistic style, it has also become a wonderful work dedicated to the art of human by Chinese. Opening ceremony is one of the great magnificent works of art melting with various arts, and this paper has an in-depth interpretation and system analysis from an aesthetic point of view.This thesis is composed of five chapters:Chapter I:Introduction. Through the overview about the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games,as well as classification and sorting the existing article on this ceremony, Points out the theoretical significance and practical significance of this paper.The second chapter analyzes the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games' symbols-national image. Section I analysis the need of Symbolic expression of the ceremony; Section II explains the symbol expression of the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics—Directly show the national image.Chapter III focuses on the cultural essence of opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games-harmony. "Harmony but different" and ""Heaven and human are the same "is the essence of Chinese traditional culture, this chapter explain the cultural mind and ideals of this ceremony from this two parts.Chapter Four Investigate the success key of the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics—Harmonious blend of technology and art. Opening ceremony use various of media technologies, and create a Grand scene.Chapter V focuses on The Comparison of aesthetic style between Zhang Yimou's film and opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games, and analysis the reasons of different styles.Based on the overview of opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics, the conclusion part point out that this ceremony is an development of the Olympic spirit by ancient oriental civilization,and it has also become a wonderful work dedicated to the art of human by Chinese.