A Study On The Ideographic Function Of Pictorial Images In Western Artist' Biography Films

Western artist' biography films is a feature film based on the life stories of important artists in western art history.The western artist biopic in this paper refers specifically to the western painter as the subject of the biopic.On the basis of following the reality of history,this kind of biopic creates a series of typical artist images with the characteristics of The Times and styles according to the imagination and artistic processing of filmmakers.Among them,in order to deeply explore the characteristics of the subject's art to present his works and style,the director used a unique ideographic painting image.The pictorial image is a kind of misappropriation speech and rhetoric devices used by artists when they present their signification artistically in the biopic.It is a linguistic symbol with a specific type of intention attached to it as the subject of consciousness,and it contains special artistic value and aesthetic meaning.This paper makes a comprehensive investigation and systematic analysis of the unique ideographic symbol of the pictographic image in the biopic of western artists under the consideration of Hersh's desire type,Pierce's symbolic typology,film rhetoric and other relevant theories.In order to supplement and enrich the study of film language and film aesthetics.This paper is divided into six parts.The introduction part discusses the background and significance of the topic,and expounds the main direction and vacancy of the biopic research of western artists.In the first chapter,the painting image,as the speech symbol of the artist's intention type,explains the typical artist image and artistic style in the context of a specific era from three aspects: highly similar actors' modeling,highly realistic actors' performance,and highly restored sets and props.In the second chapter,the painting images participate in the film narration in the form of action collage and so on,realizing the ability to restore the strengthening of the story and the ideographic function of poetic speech.Filmmakers generally use the painting image to tell the connotation of artistic works,and further analyze the different living conditions of the artists behind the works,such as the pain,suffering and emotional attack on the creation crisis,so as to reproduce the artistic life of the legendary master.In the third chapter,based on the feature of the isomorphism of the painting image and the artistic work,the intertextual rhetorical effect of the film is realized.This section compares and analyzes the language and symbol elements of lens such as color,light and composition in painting images and the language elements of painting in art works,and explores the relationship between ideographic form and expressive effect from the perspective of movie rhetoric.In the fourth chapter,this section summarizes the aesthetic value of painting images in western artists' biopic from two aspects: the remolding of artists' image and the influence of painting images on different artistic styles of films.This section summarizes the key significance and aesthetic value of the painting image in the ideographic system of the Western artist' biography films.Conclusion,as an ideographic symbol,the painting image helps to reproduce and construct the close interaction between the artist's artistic works,thus promoting the formation of the unique aesthetic style of such films.At the same time,the painting image plays a key role in the aesthetic calling function of the movie text to the viewer,and helps the audience to achieve a higher level of aesthetic experience.Finally,as a visual image symbol closely related to artists and works,the pictorial image will participate in the practice of cultural ideation in a broad sense and become a part of the process of meaning production and transmission.