Research On Artistic Language Of Woodblock New Year Pictures In Hua Country

The Woodblock New Year pictures in Hua county is an ancient art arisen in An Yang City,which consists of god statues and family tree mainly, and is full of ancient mysterious art style.But in In the historical vicissitude, it was gradually buried in the countryside and almost lost until 2006, when it got the world’s attention again. By the outstanding artistic value and rich history contained in Hua county woodblock New Year pictures, it attracted the academic’s attention heavily. However, due to the short time of research, many fields of study still remains for depth exploration.In this paper, on the one hand, we summarize the folk environment, the ideological content and artistic features for the woodblock New Year pictures in Hua county, from the perspective of folklore. On the other hand, from the perspective of linguistics, we analysis the Language symbols composition form, formative factors and language function value contained in Hua County woodblock New Year pictures, by regarding the pictures as a kind of art language for local expression for people livelihood.Firstly, by the preliminary desktop investigation and the actual production environment interview, we learn much about the history, craftsmanship, performance content, genre classification, and folk use of Hua County woodblock New Year pictures. Thus we summarize three distinctive characteristics for it, namely: elegant calligraphy performance, the old style and the sharp screen size. This article also compares the woodblock New Year pictures in Hua County with the surrounding area horizontally, to highlight its unique glamour clearly.Secondly, The article also systematically analysis the cause environment and functional value of Hua County woodblock New Year pictures, and expounds the “Environment- Psychology-Function” model. From the perspective of local natural geographical and historical cultural,combined with the local social structure, we analysis the complex environment and cultural realm of Hua County woodblock New Year pictures. Further, we dissect the deep Social psychological basis brought by thus environment and cultural realm. Also, we unscramble the spiritual aspirations expressed in this New Year pictures art language and discover the function value contained in it. Thirdly, based on these studies, this article analysis the artistic language level of Hua County woodblock New Year pictures deeply, to explain how it express the theme with the art form. Also, we summarize the concept topics contained in it, from the perspective of folklore, religion, and art. And we clarify the structure of theme and form elements, explore how these pictures express the deep connotations by the composition, shape,color and lines, which forming the unique artistic and aesthetic value.Finally, from the perspective of semiotics, we explore the syntagmatic and associative relations contained in art language symbol of Hua County woodblock New Year pictures, through a large number of case analysis. Thus, we undertake a further research and summarize for the symbolic operation.