The Illustration Analysis Of Dongba Painting Form From Naxi

As a wonderful work of art, the pearl of snow-covered plateau, Dongba paint is being pushed by a wave after wave of enthusiasm of Naxi learning. We are being impressed the visual and inspirit of Dongba painting, on the other hand, some are confused by the mysterious contains, form and meaning of Dongba painting. Now it's still at the initial stage of Dongba painting research, and the writer will try to explore this field by going through the overall Dongba painting research situations, studying of previous documents, and on base of contacting and summarizing a large number of Dongba paintings.First of all, the writer summaries the previous research mainly about two aspects:the art theory and painting in the form; examined the two features on the view of Naxi's aesthetic "broad" and "unique colors"; comments in details of the main four types of Dongba painting:wood painting, card painting, scripture painting and scroll painting. Secondly, the writer deeply analysis the painting forms incl. the most used several composition such as genre painting, center-type composition and symmetrical composition; the basic principles of color:color and feeling, the emotional and symbolic, color contrast and harmony; the layout of color:balance, mutual echo and level; the line of above mentioned four art types to capture the most typical formal elements and its unique features. Finally, it gets the conclusion that the Dongba painting has united features of culture, nation aesthetic and stylist technology in its formal aspect; expressive incl. ideal non-real world, subject imagination, emotion; reproducibility of real life, history, and painting rules; symbolic of composition, shape, color etc.; planarity of respective, shape and color. The writer also brief the future vision of Dongba painting's development.