The Research On Form Language Of Modern Picture Book

At the turn of the century, as the increasingly rapid development of science and technology, people’s pace of life becomes much faster. With the rapid spread of information in modern society, when a large amount of information pours in, it is difficult to understand and digest them immediately, thus people is looking for more intuitive, vivid and easy-to-read contents within the flood of information. Images can cater the modern mode of information interpretation with its easy, intuitive way, and gradually replace the narrative function of texts. The gradually approaching of picture era makes the traditional text reading habits gradually abandoned by many people, and the relatively more intuitive picture reading habits are accepted by people for soon, and pictures can directly stimulate people’s eyes. In such an image society or visual culture era, picture books start coming into people’s views. Because of the application of film, television, network as well as a variety of modern communications equipments in modern society, the narrative function of images is increasingly becoming important. Therefore, the combination of graphic diagram based on picture books with its unique form of language continues to attract people’s attention.Along with the approach of picture books into our lives, various theoretical discussions of picture books appear. From the definition, we can see that picture books certainly have a lot of pictures inside, but the books with pictures can’t explain what is a picture book, because each picture in picture books are linked and they have a common theme to reflect. The development of picture books have about100years’ history, and in modern society, a lot of new technology, new media, new materials, and the emergence of a new way of reading, deeply affect the development of the picture books, and the formal language of picture books become richer. The modern picture book is a comprehensive art form, taking into account the form language of literature and art, as well as the visual images art. It has intersections with the comic novels and illustrations which are familiar with by people. A comprehensive, integrated research of picture books, can not only provide the direct theoretical guidance for the design of picture books’ creation, but also can play the role of learning and inspiration by picture books in the related field.Creative and beautiful picture books also provide valuable inspiration for the film, television and animation creation. In the preliminary creation of television and animation, many works are inspired by picture books, for example, the adaptation movie from Jimmy’s "Turn Left, Turn Right", the adaptation animated short from "fish smile","Emerald forest" in Japan, and "Blockbuster Shrek" in the U.S. are adapted from picture books, the list goes on. The adaptation animation often follows the picture books with the art form language and the performance style of the original picture books, making picture books from the static form of artistic representation to become a dynamic form of artistic expression, and the adaptation from picture books to animation can be regarded as an extension of the language form of picture books.