Opera In Painting, Painting In Opera

The universal existence is interlinked the similarity in Chinese opera and Chinese painting and other traditional Chinese arts. This paper mainly describes their commonly shared features of aesthetic pursuit and art techniques under the influence of ancient Chinese philosophy (the dialectical view of body and spirit conception mainly and organic integral concept which is also called the dialectical view of reality). This article also discusses the similarities and mutual influence of Chinese opera and Chinese painting from the following aspects such as pursuing the painting viewpoints of similarity in spirit,spatio-temporal view,the creation of dyeing formula,line- point structure. Moreover, opera facial makeup is regards as a spectrum of trouper's facial makeup, and is entitled an apotheosis of the combination of Chinese traditional opera and Chinese traditional painting realm art union model. It is concentrated expressively the aesthetic ideology of expressive theory of Chinese traditional arts. It may be said opera in painting and painting in opera.