Image Creation And Functions Of Posters In The War Of Resistance

The War of Resistance was the key period for the national peril,the strong national consciousness that was shown by artists and their positive creation way in the atmosphere of the war of resistance made posters have stronger directive property.Artists didn't give up their artistic creation due to the war,on the contrary,they created posters with obvious subjects through their consideration on the real life of Chinese people in the war of resistance.In the posters during the period of the war of resistance,artists absorbed the essence of folk art and they took black and white woodcut pictures to replace the traditional colorful paintings.The study on the image creation and function of the posters in the war of resistance was established on the framework of the character creation,the dissemination way and the social function of posters in the war of resistance.Artists painted representative characters in the posters,these characters included the images of soldiers fighting against enemies on the battlefield,the image that soldiers cooperated with the public,as well as the devil image of Japanese atrocities etc..Artists tried to make spiritual communication between propagators and audience through different ways of dissemination,which was good to enhance the public's national responsibility,to encourage the courage of the public,to call on people to fight against the Japanese invaders and to lead the public to value the peaceful life.The paper is divided into five parts.The first part is the introduction.In this part,the author explains the reason and the research objects as well as the current research status of the study,in addition,the author makes analysis on the era background of the posters in the war of resistance.The second part is the construction of posters' image consciousness in the war of resistance.The paper mainly analyzes the construction from two aspects,which are the image swerve of posters,and the dissemination as well as acceptance of posters in the war of resistance.The third part is the merge of multiple creation forms of posters in the war ofresistance.The paper mainly develops from the following five parts,which are the woodcut art in the war of resistance,the cartoon art in the war of resistance,Chinese painting art in the war of resistance,New Year painting art in the war of resistance and the oil painting in the war of resistance,the author makes an initial analysis on the posters in the war of resistance and makes foundation for the features of character images in the posters in the war of resistance in the following part.The fourth part is the key chapter of the paper.It is about the subject image building and identification of posters in the war of resistance,the author mainly adopts detailed character images,including anti-war soldier images of couple hardness with softness,image of the cooperation between soldiers and the public sharing a bitter hatred of the enemy and the smoke-filled battle scenes to interpret in detail the posters in the war of resistance.The fifth part is the subject spirit and the social function of dissemination of posters in the war of resistance.The author develops this chapter from the following four aspects,which are to enhance the national consciousness of the public,to encourage the courage of the public,to promote the national cohesion and to lead the public to value the peaceful life,the author makes explicit explanations on the subject spirit and dissemination's social function of posters in the war of resistance.