Study Of Arts&Life Of The1930s And Development Of Chinese Modern Design

Although Arts&Life, initially issued in1934, only existed for3years with only41issues, it had a strong professional nature and made art populaire. The ideological purpose of launching and developing Arts&Life had a special background. As a mass media, the content of the Arts&Life related to painting, sculpture, art, design, film, photography, etc. It published and disseminated a large number of modem Western art and design works and creative design ideas, which not only reflected on the historically developmental track of western modern Arts design before the1930s, but also played an positive role in promoting the spread of western modern design to China, influencing the development of Chinese modern design. At the same time, it Also published and disseminated a number of Chinese modern design works and theoretical research articles, which had played a positive role in promoting Chinese people’s understanding of modern design and development in China’s modern design practices. However, there have been few academic studies on its role in spreading western modem design and promoting China’s modem design for a long term. The paper, from the point of communication studies, conducts an in-depth discussion on the research topic of Arts&Life with the longitude of the types and content of western modern designs and the historically developmental track and situation of western modern design before the1930s presented and promoted on the magazines of41issues from1934to1937and the latitude of Chinese understanding of modem design spread by Arts&Life, the facilitation of Arts&Life to the development of Chinese modern design in the1930s and etc. The paper thoroughly combs out the types and content of western design promoted by Arts&Life, thoroughly unearth improving Chinese better ideological understanding of modern design and thoroughly analyzes and discusses Arts&Life’s positive promotion role in Chinese modern design’s development and historical value to Chinese modern design’s development. The paper’s purpose is to promote the development of the course of Arts design in China with an in-depth study of the relationship between Arts&Life and Chinese modern design.