The Study Of Cartoon Reconstitution Of Dunhuang Fresco Art

The flourishing culture of Dunhuang Frescos is a pith of the thousands-year-long Chinese culture, and even a classic of world culture.This dissertation aims to study the form of restoring the art of Dunhuang Fresco into cartoon works, presenting the artistic spirits and cultural connotations of these frescos.By doing this, it also interprets the art of fresco into screens, and inherits the glorious art of Dunhuang Frescos. This study also serves the purposes of promoting Dunhuang Frescos, making traditional Chinese fresco art, and preserves this art treasure which has been developed for thousands of years.Tang Dynasty is the heyday of our nation’s feudal society, meanwhile the fresco also reaches the peak of the development. This dissertation takes the fresco works in Mogao Grottoes in Tang Dynasty as study subjects, and analyses the aspects of materials,contents, styles and features of the frescos to interpret them to the manuscripts,storyboards, styles and audio visual frames of cartoon works.This study of Cartoon Reconstitution is based mainly on three aspects: firstly, it dedicates to the most genuine fresco art; secondly, it delivers the original creation motivations and working mentality; thirdly, as mostly essentially, it passes down the spirits of fresco art to the modern cartoon. This dissertation comprises of four chapters.The introduction elaborates the springboard, purposes, meanings of the study, and defines the construct of Cartoon Reconstitution. The second chapter analysis the characteristics of different periods of fresco art in Tang Dynasty and studies the theoretical foundation of reconstituting fresco art into cartoon works embarking from the perspective of fresco art theories. The third chapter is seted in an angle of cartoon creation to explain the meanings of reconstructing the fresco works from Mogao Grottoes in Tang Dynasty in all the steps of cartoon creation. The fourth chapter illustrates the practical meanings of the cartoon reconstitution of Boundless Life of Jing Bian completed in 112 grottoes during mid-Tang Dynasty by experimental cartoons.