Application And Symbolic Significance Of Black-and-white Images In 21st Century Chinese Films

Nowadays imaging art is the most popular entertainment mode in the world.Photography art is the most common artistic aesthetic mode in the world today.The technical noumenon of film art is photography pictures,which express the creator’s emotion with the tone of photography.It is a problem that any film director and cinematographer cannot ignore.In today’s digital cinema era,every cinematographer has been studying the film theory all his life to discuss the composition of the black,white and gray film tones and their great artistic expression in the film art.From the Lumiere Brothers’ black-and-white film to the appearance of the first color film with natural colors,from the first black-and-white photo produced by Daguerre’s silver photography to the appearance of the first color picture,black-and-white images and color images are developing and growing in the field of visual arts with their respective advantages.Chinese painting is one of the birthplaces of black-and-white art,the pursuit of black-and-white images is deeply incorporated in the Chinese culture.The study of modern application on motion picture is more than the pursuit of its unique artistic experience.The historical sense and omission inherent in black-and-white images have also found the most appropriate expression for some special film and television works.Black and white images have gone through a long and tortuous process of development from the past film to the present digital era,and are still loved and cherished by people for their unique artistic charm and value.Black and white movies often stand erect in the world movie circle with their unique charm.Simple color tone,simple light and shadow,simple schema,black-and-white images show its unique artistic charm in the visual feeling of reflecting the stereoscopic impression of the picture space.The historical sense and omission inherent in black-and-white images have also found the most appropriate expression for some special film and television works.Black and white images have gone through a long and tortuous process of development from the past film to the present digital era,whichare still loved and cherished by people for their unique artistic charm and value.Black and white movies often stand erect in the world movie circle with their unique charm.Simple color tone,simple light and shadow,simple schema,black-and-white images show its unique artistic charm in the visual feeling of reflecting the stereoscopic impression of the picture space.Through film theory and typical film cases,this paper analyzes and explores the picture creation techniques of black,white and gray tone in the era of color films,and lists influential films in recent years for technical and artistic theoretical interpretation,Whereby finding out the artistic value and aesthetic significance of the black,white and gray image levels of movie pictures in the era of color movies.