New Fourth Army's Anti-Japanese War Newspaper Design Art

The New Fourth Army(the Fourth Army of the National Revolution)was reorganized in October 1937 by the Red Army guerrillas in 14 regions of the eight southern provinces.The New Fourth Army produced a large number of revolutionary newspapers and periodicals during the war of resistance.The design of the New Fourth Army's anti-Japanese war newspapers and periodicals was the concrete manifestation of the spirit of the war of resistance and the inheritance of the revolutionary design practice under the May Fourth New Culture Movement.The design of the New Fourth Army's anti-Japanese war newspapers and magazines grew up in parallel,intertwined and contradictory with the anti-war literary thoughts,and matured in the inheritance and innovation of Chinese traditional design ideas.Newspaper design as a major form of artistic expression,the practical decorative design created by the newspapers and media is crucial to the nationalities of all periods.The design of the New Fourth Army's anti-Japanese war newspapers and periodicals is the result of the choice and creation of the anti-war group design autonomous creativity.The simple,serious and combative newspaper design has turned into a social force to fight the enemy and boost morale.The design of the New Fourth Army newspapers and magazines not only integrates the personal style,national style and style of the design creators into the design art of the anti-Japanese war newspapers,but also forms the design style and design principles of the anti-Japanese newspapers and periodicals in the design practice process.The research on the design art of the New Fourth Army's anti-Japanese war newspapers follows and applies the Marxist aesthetic-historical method,and regards the design of the anti-Japanese war newspapers as a creative achievement during the Anti-Japanese War.This paper studies the design art of the New Fourth Army's anti-Japanese war newspapers as a historical phenomenon,and attempts to use it as an introductory guide and starting point for analyzing the history of modern Chinese design.The article pays attention to the aesthetic attributes of design art and puts it in a specific chain of anti-war historical conditions and the development of the entire design history to give a fair,objective and historical positioning and evaluation.