Traditional Chinese opera has an unshakable position in China. The stage art design of traditional Chinese opera is directly related to the performance effect. So, how much do you know about the design principles of the stage art design of traditional Chinese opera? The following are the aesthetic design principles of the art design of the opera stage that I have compiled for you, hoping to help you.

freehand brushwork

? Freehand brushwork is an important proposition in China's ancient aesthetics, which is mainly manifested in the breakthrough of time and space restrictions and the virtuality of actions and scenery in the performing arts of traditional operas. Together, it creates a world far from the actual life form, and the rhythm of art flows with the mind-of course, it will not be a realistic fantasy. ? [2](P653) The beauty of traditional Chinese opera dance serving for traditional Chinese opera performance must be synchronized with the freehand brushwork of the performance, and freehand brushwork is also one of the aesthetic principles of its design.

Actually, freehand brushwork and realism are one of the main differences between Chinese and western aesthetics. ? China's traditional aesthetics emphasizes the unity of beauty and goodness and pays attention to the ethical value of art; Western traditional aesthetics emphasizes the unity of beauty and truth and pays more attention to the cognitive value of art. China's traditional aesthetics emphasizes artistic expression, lyricism and aspiration. Western traditional aesthetics emphasizes the reproduction, imitation and realism of art. ? [3](P331)

The freehand brushwork in the design of traditional Chinese opera dance beauty is mainly embodied in the following ways:

One is virtualization. That is, replacing reality with emptiness, for example, replacing cities with cloth, clouds with clouds, cars with flags, horses with whips and boats with paddles. What is the most typical? One table and two chairs? Multi-functional application: it can be used for halls, anterooms, living rooms, inner rooms, study rooms, towers, hillsides, boats, bedridden and so on.

the second is exaggeration. That is to exaggerate the prototype of life, for example, the window of the landlord's house is designed in the shape of a big copper coin.

the third is patterning. That is, some kind of standardized and fixed pattern, such as Beijing opera? Facebook? It is patterning. Different people's faces have different colors, patterns and shapes.

the fourth is decoration. That is, add auxiliary elements to the scenery, costumes and props to make them beautiful, such as helmets and tassels.

in a word, the freehand brushwork in the design of drama beauty is one of the important aesthetic principles of drama beauty design. In this regard, there are many successful examples. For example, the scenery design of Xiao He chasing Han Xin under the moon in the Peking Opera "Success or Failure in Xiao He" uses freehand brushwork, and the full moon in the night sky on the big screen flickers on and off, creating a profound artistic conception. Simplicity

Simplicity is closely related to freehand brushwork, or simplicity is an effective means and inevitable choice of freehand brushwork. Originally, the so-called? Freehand brushwork? , originated from China's painting, originally refers to a kind of indulgence painting, that is, with concise pen and ink, write the form and spirit of objects and express the author's intention, and? Gongbi? Relative, so? Freehand brushwork? Also called in Chinese painting? Rough pen? . Originally widely used in various arts, it refers to expressing the essential characteristics of people or things in a simple way. Therefore, the core feature of freehand brushwork is simplicity, that is, less wins more, and one is the total. Used in the design of traditional Chinese opera and dance beauty, it means that one scene is multi-purpose, one thing is multi-purpose, and one suit is multi-purpose. For example, a whip can be used by military commanders, civil servants and even female figures. And through the change of color, it can represent horses of different colors.

there are also many successful examples in this respect. For example, the scenery design of the rehearsal of the pingju "Zhong Li Jian" is very simple; On the big screen, different patterns are printed with blue as the bottom, representing different scenes. The whole stage sometimes hangs several giant sword-shaped strips of cloth, which are both symbolic and extremely simple. Emotional

Mr. Zhang Geng, a famous opera theorist, called China opera? Drama poetry? , a word tells the lyrical aesthetic characteristics of China's operas. In order to express the lyrical aesthetic characteristics of the whole China opera, the aesthetic design of opera dance must also take emotion as one of its important aesthetic principles.

so-called? Emotional? It means that all elements of the beauty of opera and dance (including scenery, costumes, makeup, props, lighting, acoustics, effects, etc.) must be rich? Affectionate? , do it? A branch and a leaf are always related to love? In order to create an art of blending scenes, unifying subject and object, and integrating characters? Artistic conception? Come on.

　? Artistic conception? It is also an important proposition of China's traditional aesthetics, which has the hazy beauty, the infinite transcendental beauty and the natural beauty. In other words, artistic conception highlights the unity of subject and object, emotion and scenery.