Research On The Application Of Chinese Character Art In Illustration Design

There are three kinds of quite old writings in human history. In addition to the Chinese characters which are still vibrant, the Hieroglyphics and cuneiform of Sumerian in Mesopotamia have been lifeless. Chinese character is a faithful record of the Chinese civilization, even more the culture symbol of the Chinese nation. The evolution of Chinese characters is the long and complicated process of the Chinese nation’s cultural development and prosperity, which continues to this day.Global economic integration is the inevitable trend of human social development. With the development of the era, Modern culture showed the commercial, popular, and diversified cultural characteristics. Art goes down from the altar as "goods". Commercial mass culture led to the prosperity and development of the design art industry. After the "Internet age", "map reading age "followed. The design art which can be reproduced by popular art has been thriving. The illustration design, as an important form of commercial art, has also been unprecedented prosperity in China. The advantage of the image is vivid, simple, informative,, which leads to the power of words ignored gradually. Nowadays, Chinese characters are experiencing evolution from "writing to watching". But at the same time, Chinese characters are also no longer just recording symbols. They are being rediscovered the vitality by humans. The opportunity of discovering its charm is just coming again.There is an old saying that" calligraphy and drawing have the same roots" in China. So we can see that books and paintings are variants with homogeneity. Pictographic characters provided the artists with subject matter and inspiration, which interacted with western modern and contemporary art and collided sparks. Since the 1960s, painting style with abstract expressionism has rised. Although it was a painting movement, it is largely influenced by Oriental Chinese characters writing. Especially in the art creations of the two masters, Cleveland and Miro, there are important topics about the Chinese characters. At present, Chinese character art with the intension of "sound-form-meaning" promotes widely and deeply and introduces more new era elements and possibilities. It also provides a good opportunity and broad space for applying the Chinese characters to art illustrations design.