A Study Of Illustration Criticism In The Journey To The West In The Ming And Qing Dynasties

The Illustrated Criticism of Journey to the West in the Ming and Qing Dynasties is supported by the text,illustrations and commentary of Journey to the West,and is based on imageology and the theory of "graphic and text intertextuality"."Journey to the West" starts from the Shide Tang in the Ming Dynasty,and to "Illustration of the New Journey to the West" in the Qing Dynasty,the nine main versions of the illustrations respectively reflect different levels of literary criticism.Based on literary texts,internal research includes religious criticism and graphic titles,like praise,and comments.Religious criticism manifests itself as "Confucianism" and "Tao" to prove "Buddha",and it proves the overall tendency of worshiping Buddha in the illustrations in Journey to the West.In terms of commentary,the illustrations in Journey to the West mainly reflect the secular characteristics of popular literary illustrations through the shaping of characters and the performance of plots,as well as the critics’ criticism of the original works.External research includes criticism of imagery and embroidery.Female characters in embroidery criticism embody new attempts,which have unique criticism.The image criticism is represented by the symbolization of animal and plant images in the illustration,which is the embodiment of the painter’s acceptance and reconstruction of the original work.The animal images in the illustrations of Yang Minzhai and others show omission and symbolization.In the commentary on the plant imagery that appeared in the illustrations,the painter accepted and reconstructed the "metaphor" of the imagery,and formed a polysemy interpretation of the original work.