Research On The Modern Transformation Of Traditional Peking Opera Images (1900-1949

As a cultural form with an extremely wide audience,Peking Opera has undergone changes at many different levels at the beginning of the twentieth century,the most notable being the change in the performance ecology of Peking Opera.Another aspect of symbiosis with this ecological change is the mass production of emerging images of Peking Opera.The painting reproduction of Peking Opera scenes in newspapers and play lists;Peking Opera painting has become a theme that Chinese modern artists have paid attention to;the film has re-transformed the visual nature of Peking Opera performances.During the period,the Peking Opera image system was embedded in the Peking Opera performance ecology and was independent and self-contained.The exploration period of these emerging images of Peking Opera focuses on the first half of the twentieth century.They are all based on old image traditions,and have completed a modern transformation through the hands of artistic creators.Peking Opera Pictorial gave a visual voice to opera reviews,and old-fashioned flower spectrums were used to paint portraits of actors in the book,which became the origin of such review images.Peking Opera Pictorial extends the pictorial context of opera commentary under the urban atmosphere.The birth of Peking Opera-themed paintings is inseparable from the careful interpretation of Guan Liang and Lin Fengmian.In the context of modern art,they positioned the aesthetic characteristics of Peking Opera-themed paintings from lines and face blocks respectively,and with the help of Peking Opera,a national visual form,broadened the scope of modern China.Visuality of art.As a "moving image",Fei Mu and Mei Lanfang converged from the perspectives of film shooting and Peking Opera performance respectively,looking for the aesthetic expression space of Chinese Peking Opera films,thus completing the modern innovation of the early Peking Opera film shooting mode.Although the creators of the above three types of images face different creative problems,they are all inseparable from the same cultural context and share similar cultural ideals,that is,to use traditional art forms to recreate visual derivatives,so as to create a kind of A new modern vision.And this involves two cultural propositions behind the transformation of visual modernization——the visual representation of new media and the cultural power of reshaping tradition.