Research On The Woodcut Creation Method Of Gu Yuan In The Yan'an Period

Gu yuan was trained by Lu Yi of Yan'an,an outstanding artist in the Communist Party of China who can integrate the artistic quality and revolutionary propaganda function of woodcut.His artistic achievements are concentrated in providing effective solutions to the problem of woodcut nationalization.Gu Yuan did not make specific written expressions of his woodcut creation methods in the Yan'an period,and this problem did not attract the attention of the theoretical circle.Back to the work itself,Taking the combination of image style analysis method and literature research method,Reducing Gu yuan to the social and cultural context of that time,A comparative study of the works in the three stages of reference model form(1938-1940),visual and aesthetic transformation(1940-1942),and woodcut folk transformation(1942-1945),Summarize the specific methods and steps: with foreign woodcut as a model,Establish the initial formal language consciousness;Looking at living site,Take life as a model,Study on light,shadow and depth,To realize the visual transformation of the border area life with realistic techniques;Then,by using the strong light effect,Find the meeting point between three-dimensional and plane in the way of leaving the residual knife,Using a counter-perspective,Finding a meeting point between depth and planarity,To realize the new realism,Complete the Oriental aesthetic transformation of woodcut;Then,in the form of New Year wood-block prints,Integrating multiple Chinese and Western factors,selecting scenes that match the form of New Year pictures from the living scene,using strong light,perspective and perspective errors,Try various possibilities on the integration of the two spatial systems of plane and depth,Realize the folk transformation of woodcut;The method system of new idea-new theme-new form-new expression-new technique-new technique are constructed.The method system of Gu yuan has a distinct synthesis of theory and a form and the principle of unifying motivation and effect is an indispensable test mechanism of the method system.MAO Zedong's revolutionary literary thought and methodology played a fundamental guiding role in the construction of woodcut creation method system of Gu yuan.