A Study Of Character And Background Patterns In The Context Of Printmaking

The Ming Dynasty is regarded as one of the most brilliant periods in the history of Chinese printmaking.Ming dynasty opera prints,as illustrations of opera texts,embodied a variety of pictorial possibilities to support the narrative of the text.This paper focuses on Ming dynasty opera prints and discusses the role and significance of character and background iconography in printmaking,using the research methods of documentary research,image analysis,and practical research.Character iconography and background iconography are viewed as independent pictorial narrative units.The paper first emphasizes the narrative focus of Ming dynasty opera prints and analyzes the stage-specific characteristics of the sources of pictorial patterns in opera prints.The paper then explores the narrative function of pictorial patterns in opera prints in two ways: organization and narrative role.The author compares and analyzes different images of individual and combined pictorial patterns in various opera prints,elucidating the narrative elements of character and background iconography.The paper also discusses and summarizes the factors that influenced the development of iconography in opera prints,including internal borrowing,exchanges with other materials of the same period,and the Western painting concept brought by the gradual development of Western painting.Using Ming Dynasty opera prints as a model for pictorial narrative,the author practices and explores new possibilities in their personal creation.The author’s creative path begins with the arrangement of individual character images,then introduces a background language with the characteristics of the times,and tries to use historical print images as background patterns to enrich the social value and discussion depth of the works.