Study On The Spirit Of The Times And Semantic Expression Of Yan’an Woodcut Prints

The Chinese society in the 1930 s and 1940 s was in a critical juncture of internal strife and foreign invasion,and the country was destroyed and its family was destroyed.Yan’an period printmakers created a number of inspiring,arouse the public,the propaganda of the war of outstanding works of art,these works are worthy of the name of fighting art,pioneering art and popular art,to fully show the revolutionary atmosphere and national spirit of the war years.Yan ’an woodcut printmaking is an art form that grew up in the special context of The Times and played an important role in the art of saving the country during the Anti-Japanese War.Its profound meaning still plays a particularly profound value of The Times under the background of the rise of great powers.On the basis of sorting out and studying the existing data of Yan ’an woodcut prints,this paper attempts to analyze and explore the semantic expression of Yan ’an woodcut prints by using the theoretical methods of semiotics combined with practice research,literature research,image comparison and other research methods.Starting from the woodcarving of Yan ’an itself,this paper interprets the symbolic meaning of The woodcarving of Yan ’an from the perspective of different subjects and different printmakers,and finally analyzes the core semantic meaning of the woodcarving of Yan’an by using the biaxial relationship between combination and aggregation in semiotics.Then yanan woodcut in different era context,from two dimensions of Anti-Japanese War period and The Times to explore its significance and value,this paper analyzes the contemporary artists to yenan woodcut printmaking spiritual value of inheritance and innovation in the form of the art,showed the spirit of the age of yanan woodcut in such aspects as politics,culture,art of pluralistic semantics.Finally,from the perspective of contemporary art creators,this paper conducts extended creation for Yan ’an woodcut prints,and highlights the important spiritual core of Yan ’an woodcut prints with innovative artistic expression forms and creative ideas.It is hoped that through the study of this paper,the spiritual value contained in Yan ’an woodcarving can be better displayed in the era of the rise of great powers,so as to make a contribution to the inheritance and development of red culture in the current era.At the same time,it provides a new perspective for the current research of Yan ’an woodcut prints in the field of semiotics,so as to better integrate the artistic treasure of Yan ’an woodcut prints into the pulse of The Times.