Exploring The Practice Of Lyricism In Freehand Opera Character Painting

Traditional Chinese opera and Chinese painting nourished and developed in the same context.Both the singing and acting in opera and the brush and ink in Chinese painting can reflect the characteristics of lyricism and meaningfulness.Representing opera themes in Chinese painting allows the two to learn from and absorb each other,complementing each other.This paper is divided into three parts from the perspective of the lyrical nature of the written opera character painting.The first part is to explore the relationship between both Chinese painting and opera,and to determine the lyrical nature of the opera characters that can be expressed in written opera character painting.In the second part,three painters of freehand opera characters are used as case studies for the analysis of creative techniques.The third part is based on the theory of the first two chapters of freehand opera figure painting practice creation elaboration.Chinese painting was about spirit,emotion,meaning and pleasure.Figure painting was even more focused on the form to write the spirit.The spirit is the distillation of the character’s overall mental state and psychological characteristics and emotional thoughts.The lyricism in opera is the essential characteristic of opera.In the creation of opera character painting,the spirit and morphological characteristics of the characters can be used to express lyricism,which can be expressed in the form of color and ink and perspective composition.The main expression of lyricism in painting is indirect lyricism,which presents the aesthetic effect of scenario blends with reality.In the painting of opera characters,attention should be paid to the expression of lyricism,and the painting of opera characters in realistic style can reflect the lyrical characteristics of opera.Lyricism has a considerable aesthetic value in the painting and creation of opera characters.