The Application Of Chinese Painting Ornamental Feature In The Cover Design

Chinese painting is the most traditional aesthetic form of art, as a kind of art shows very distinctive ornamental feature. Cover design is an important part of the design of books, is a kind of modern art design. Because both of them are the paper art, and constitute factors are very similar, so in many cover design works can be found the application in Chinese Painting ornamental feature. The cover design works not only in form shows a national temperament that has Chinese painting ornamental feature, but also shows the more cultural content.Along with the development of art design, cover design is no longer a single protection of books, it gradually become an independent design types. Regarding the cover design requirements, it should have the actical function to realize the information communicate, and it should annotate the connotation and spirit of the book, also cover design should have the beauty form, apparently it put forward very high requirements to the art which is still in the development period. Therefore, it is necessary to learn from other art theories and formal languages, then the concept of cover design can have more fully development. Traditional Chinese painting has extremely ornamental feature, the vivid characteristic and precious spiritual is what cover design needed. Cover design has similar form with Chinese painting, so it is possible to reference and apply with it. Chinese painting as a traditional art is more and more obviously influence the cover design from the theory,national culture spirit and adornment aesthetic form and so on.Today, The art of world are rapid development, each country has more and more frequent.communication, especially the design of art emerged pluralistic development tendency. However cover design has not find the right direction from the multitudinous quo. This thesis analyse the Chinese painting ornamental feature in the cover design from the theory of art, form factors, aesthetic characteristics and style from ect. It summarized that modern book design must be unified the form and connotation, the national culture and modern design, the traditional aesthetic and the spirit of the era, then it can be give expression to book connotation, reveal the cultural spirit and satisfy the aesthetic demand. The most important thing is that any art must possess the national features of their own, to keep pace with the times and find the origin of artistic, that is the vitality art. Cover design can be sublimated and break through from the way to apply the traditional art in decorative form,decorative style,decorative theory, and it can be find the correct way of artistic development.