Rheology Of Modern Illustration Art Style And Aesthetic Thoughts

The development of the illustrative art is effected by many elements, just as aesthetics, society and age. It portrays the life of people and their ideas and aesthetic concepts with the different features, simultaneously, with the exquisite sense, it outlines the orientation of value in the different historical periods. In a sense, the illustration is a mirror microscopically in which we could find the human history vividly.The creation of Chinese illustrative art in the 20th century was always related to the rise and decline fate of Chinese nation, the remarkable characteristic of it was that it reflected the nature of the time, and put force in deepening the base of tradition and extending the language in the western painting. The illustrative art of Chinese modern books was produced by The May 4th New Culture Movement. Mr. Lu xun encouraged and supported the new art of woodcut, and then forcefully promoted the development of the contemporary illustrations. Henceforth, undergoing the baptism of Anti-Japanese war, without traditional theme, type and view, the illustration was apt to a manner of realism that could reflect the age and approach the life. In harmony with social tide, two kinds of the developmental tendency were formed: the traditional artistic style was inherited and developed; on the other hand, it transformed itself by drew lessons from the Western painting. Since nearly half a century, following the tremendous reform of Chinese community, the style and feature of the illustrative art of Chinese books has also had significant changes. Generally, from the founding of new China to the beginning of 80's, the mainstream of the Chinese illustrative art was the revolutionary style of idealism. China became the consumptive society in the 1990s, as the popular and public culture was in vogue, the visions of people were also consumptive gradually. The aesthetic recognition of the illustration in this period happened the alteration that the homiletic one turned to the diverting one, and the knowledgeable one to the recreational one. Pursuing the consumptionization of vision, it reveals the leisure and entertaining character. Thus, the art of illustration also presented a variety of artistic styles and features.