The Study Of Application Of The Illustration Art In News Media

In social life, The news media is a primary platform for people that communicatinginformation and expressing their views.The ways that people transiting and receivinginformation had been remarkably changed along with the advancement of informationtechnology and the level of human spiritual life,There are more and more visual means usedas information carriers by the news media,A great deal of direct and vivid visualinformation appear in man’s sight,The ways of communicating information which takeadvantage of images had already been accepted.However, Illustration, as which anexpressive and free visual mean of communication,has gradually begun occupying a spacein some news media, such as newspapers,magazines and wedsites.This paper aims at defining the basic conceptions and characteristics of newscommunication and illustration,discussed the functions and effects of the illustrations whichused in news media from the perspectives of journalism and visual communication.First,thispaper discussed the functions and characteristics of illustration art in mass communicationfield and the applicable scope in news media.Then,the paper analysed the diversifiedfunctions of the illustration in news media from each perspective of news media itself, thenews means and the news audience.The creative techniques and the expressional forms ofthe illustrations which used in news media would be summarized at the end of this paper.The expectation is,this paper would be quotable for the development of Journalism andillustration art in our country through the discussing of the effects and ways of theillustration which used in news media.