Looking for costumes with traditional Chinese opera elements

China drama costume art has a long history and rich artistic accumulation. It is an important part of drama art and the main participant in the whole drama performance. In the second creation, he worked with the director, dancer, lighting, actors, props, makeup and other departments to complete the creation and performance tasks of the play. Drama costumes can be divided into traditional costumes and modern costumes, and children's art theaters in our city can also be divided into cartoon dramas and children's dramas. It is very important for stage costume design to adhere to the organic combination of inheriting tradition and innovation.

A drama costume designer needs a deep understanding of life, rich cultivation of art and unique pursuit of image. As a designer of drama costumes, it is urgent to analyze the script, just as an officer must first study the battle plan when commanding a battle. I think the first is to analyze the background of the times, the second is to analyze the characters, and the third is to analyze the influence of themes and contradictions.

Analyzing the background of the times is to grasp the pulse of the times more accurately and understand the customs of the times correctly. The analysis of character image is a link that fashion designers should pay special attention to. Only by classifying and portraying the characters and grasping the essence of the characters can we choose the clothes that conform to the characters' personality. Theme is the soul of a work, and the meaning of theme thought is that the soul of a work (a part of comprehensive art) must serve the theme, and clothing is no exception. Mastering drama conflicts can be properly realized by expressing the country, nationality, identity, age, personality and specific times, regions and seasons of the characters in the drama. For example, there are some differences between children's plays and comic plays in our hospital. Children's dramas should be more modern in clothing, and comic dramas should be more exaggerated in clothing. According to the unique artistic processing method of drama, we can refine and transcend life and create vivid and lyrical artistic costumes for drama characters. In fact, drama costume has become a performance tool, which is integrated with the performing arts into an inseparable artistic whole. It must be coordinated with other departments on the stage to obtain a complete artistic effect. Characters' age, identity, occupation and other characteristics are generally expressed through clothing. Clothing can only be perfectly displayed on the stage through actors. Without stage lighting, it is impossible to render the plot and set off the atmosphere. Therefore, a good drama will not become a perfect artistic masterpiece without the overall idea of editing, directing, performance, beauty of dance, lighting and clothing.

Old clothes are not necessarily inferior to new ones. Because the old clothes have been worn for a while, the material is no longer dull, so it is naturally easy to wear. New clothes may add some popular factors, such as some gorgeous sequins, romantic tassels at the hem, and delicate ruffles at the collar or cuffs, but scissors may not suit the wearer's temperament. In today's unprecedented prosperity of artistic creation, can traditional art just stay in the glory of the past? People are eager for the soul shock brought by innovative traditional works of art. The innovation of traditional works of art is also like the renovation of old clothes in some ways. If we do not consider the formal style of art, but blindly seek novelty and seek differences and mechanically copy some artistic language symbols, we will inevitably lose the original charm and characteristics of this art, and the result of such artistic innovation will only lead to the similarity of artistic styles.

Old clothes are certainly not so fashionable, but because they are tailor-made, elegant in style and unique in style, they are comfortable and natural to wear occasionally. With a little change, you may lead the fashion trend again! Any kind of ideology can be called art, and its existence is by no means accidental. It is usually a change of hundreds of years, ups and downs, carrying history and constantly absorbing new results. From this perspective, art itself has no distinction between old and new. Art is the process of historical development, and the development and progress of art depends on the development and progress of works of art.

An excellent art form will become an old dress if it is not innovative. Occasionally, someone will take it out and wear it, and then put it on the shelf. Just like some traditional handicrafts in our country, the products are very good, but because of the slow production speed, waste of manpower and outdated styles, fewer and fewer people favor them, so that many handicrafts are lost now, which shows that traditional art needs innovative works. I think of Zhao and Gong Hanlin's sketch "So Packaged" a few years ago. I believe everyone has the impression that an old Pingju actor signed a Pingju performance contract with the performance company. In order to cater to the tastes of some audiences, the performance company blindly followed the trend, and carried out a series of reform packaging on Pingju. As a result, the traditional Pingju was changed beyond recognition, which was ridiculous. The key to the innovation of traditional art is how to innovate. At present, some artistic innovations are too superficial for two reasons: first, there is insufficient understanding of traditional art; Second, under the market economy, it is blind to pursue unconventional speculation. For a time, there was a trend in calligraphy art creation, which was to combine calligraphy with abstract colors and images. In the eyes of laymen, such calligraphy works are quite visually impactful, much stronger than pure black and white, and attract some people who have little knowledge of calligraphy art to follow suit. But calm analysis, the addition of color and graphics can not improve the quality of calligraphy art; Also, in some recent performances, it is often seen that some folk music instruments, such as erhu, are hung on the waist when jumping, pulling and singing, changing the form of sitting in the same place in general folk music performances, which really makes people feel very fresh. However, after careful analysis, combining musical instruments with body and engaging in dance music can only be suitable for some specific programs, but it contributes to the essence of performance-the quality of sound, the expression of emotion, the accuracy of tone and so on. It is out of the question, nor can it be said that it is an improvement and innovation of national musical instruments.

The improvement and innovation of art in history has never stopped. The Qin Dynasty unified six languages, which promoted the economic and cultural development and national integration of the Chinese nation. Ma Yuan and Xia Gui were both landscape painters in the Southern Song Dynasty. Their common feature is that they are good at bold choice and cutting in composition, depicting a part of a mountain, a corner and a cliff. The scenery in Ma Xia has broken through the panoramic process and drawn a corner scene, which is called "Majiao" and "Xia Banbian". This is a highly refined art, which highlights the emotional scenery, integrates the picture with the scenery and is poetic, which is the development and enrichment of traditional landscape painting; The New Culture Movement initiated by Mr. Lu Xun initiated the vernacular Chinese in China. These cultural and artistic innovations have left an immortal monument in history, and those works that are perfunctory and invested in people will soon be forgotten after prosperity.

The analogy between clothes and art may not be accurate enough, but it is somewhat similar. Dressing doesn't have to be fashionable, it's most important to suit yourself. But many people feel that clothes are not fashionable, so they have no confidence to wear them. No matter whether the style is uniform or not, whether the colors are harmonious or not, whether it plays a role in promoting strengths and avoiding weaknesses for the wearer's body shape, as long as it is popular, it will be beautiful to wear on yourself. It can be seen that it is not enough to improve the level of fashion designers unilaterally, but also to improve the self-cultivation of the wearers. For traditional art, it is also one-sided to emphasize reform and innovation if we only unilaterally emphasize improving the level of art practitioners. While constantly improving their artistic level and making more innovations, we should also expand the audience of traditional art and improve their artistic accomplishment. Starting with dolls, popularize the study of traditional art, and let children write more heroes in China besides Saint Angels and Transformers. Then, some art elective courses can be set up in the university classroom, such as drama art appreciation course, to understand the makeup changes of different roles, clothing knowledge, singing appreciation, the growth process and main works of the main actors; You can also offer courses such as folk music appreciation, folk art appreciation and calligraphy art appreciation. At the same time, it can also be practiced to make more people become participants from bystanders.

Generally speaking, costume modeling design is mainly to help actors complete the external image of the characters in the play, and endow the roles with vivid and lyrical drama costumes. This requires fashion designers to have high artistic accomplishment and generalization ability to understand and beautify life, so as to create a typical stage art figure image.