Researches On Visual Factors Of The Poster During The Cultural Revolution

The poster during the Cultural Revolution was the peculiar offspring of political policy and class struggle at that time, which owned very strong political character and pertinence. It was possessed of important academic and artistic status. From the angle of history and politics culture, every poster is truthful recording of each event, or praises and criticism on someone in those days. These visual factors possessed obvious era characters,era significance, and quite high cognitions.Poster was came into being special era which the Cultural Revolution, at the same time, hampered its development. Based on background of political background, cultural features and artistic form during it, a kind of clear and scientific visual identification system was set up , according as Culture anthropology. These visual factors: Chairman Mao iconography, workers, peasants, and soldiers'combination, red-sun, red-pentacle etc was collected and studied on by Iconology and Semiology. The special combination pattern: high, great, full; red, honor, bright; three-remarks, red-ocean, etc was scanned. It is used not only the representation of concentrated for the history of the Cultural Revolution according to the images, characters, color, technique of expression, but also inquiry into the application in contemporary visual culture. Because of the cognition and aesthetic orientation was regulated by the potential influence of the dominant social ideology. So, when the visual factors and artistic system of the poster came into Modern Art, it was not only serves the politics and revolution. These specific visual factors were even always employed in Modern Art so far. Such as Wang Guangyi's series of poster. People's emotion was showing by the sense of vicissitudes and the beauty of misery and enthusiasm. It has strong artistic appeal. Nowadays, based on the succession of visual factors and culture during the Cultural Revolution, they were adapted to the new time, and accepted by treasonous spirit and complex of nostalgia. It makes deeper-level cognitions and appreciation. At the same time, it accommodate with Modern Culture. And it become the design style with Chinese characteristics, then expand more wide space for the future study and the art design.