Kunqu Opera's Stage Decoration Art Research

The kun opera art is deeply influenced by the traditional Chinese aesthetic concept and embodies the unique aesthetic consciousness and humanistic spirit of Chinese culture.As a comprehensive art form,kun opera gathers the essence of literature,drama,music and dance.The visual forms and decorative art techniques in kun opera are artistic elements that can be used and used for reference.From the analysis of the viewing space of the stage,it can be seen that the kun opera stage and other traditional Chinese drama stages have similar decorative forms.Such as: three out of the stage structure,a table and two chairs and will set the fixed and set props mobility.Because most of the scene is fluid,so the stage set style and masonry props are very flexible,easy to move at any time for the scene.In the performance venues,gardens add the charm of "combination of music and environment" to the performance of kun opera.The elegant and delicate characters in kun opera are also important decorative elements on the stage.Due to the limitation of material conditions and the way of performance at the beginning,the stage performance of kun opera has formed the feature of emphasizing character modeling.Compared with the simple stage set,the costumes of kun opera are more gorgeous and colorful,and the actors' makeup effect is more intense and eye-catching.With the continuous evolution of performing arts,the freehand performance of performers with body acting as a set makes the costumes have strong "danceability".Due to the help of modern equipment,there have been great innovations and changes in the structure of the stage,the cutting of costumes and the scheduling of lights in kun opera performances today.In the youth version of peony pavilion,the dadu version of peony pavilion and the shangkun version of the hall of eternal life,the classical elements presented in kun opera are reconstructed in accordance with more abstract aesthetic forms.Using contemporary stage techniques,such as brilliant lighting,mechanized installations and improved costumes,to showcase the old kun opera.Kunning dance is a new form of classical dance born in recent years.In the process of creation,it inherits and recreates the stylized body of kun opera,and extracts and summarizes the aesthetic characteristics of kun opera.Among them,the body language and narrative structure of the dance in two kunning dance works,"love in March" and "poppy",more concretely show kun's artistic presentation as a contemporary variant of kun opera.This paper attempts to summarize and analogy the decorative forms and design techniques in the kun opera stage space,and to study the variation and transformation of newly compiled plays and contemporary stage performance forms.On this basis,further analysis and discussion of contemporary kun opera stage decoration art form innovation of a variety of possibilities.