On the Artistic Features of Decorative Painting

On the Artistic Features of Decorative Painting

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Decorative painting has many artistic features. It is different from realistic painting. It has its own unique artistic language. It can exist independently as an art form, and it can be said to be a modern craft painting. Decorative painting has obvious material characteristics, which is different from traditional Chinese painting or oil painting. Decorative painting materials are widely used, which can not only make use of the natural characteristics of various materials such as shape, color and texture, but also give full play to the beauty of materials.

Decoration, Ci Yuan is interpreted as "a pretender, a collector, a decorator, and a literary talent when things are done." It is to add decorative patterns and colors to the surface of objects to achieve the purpose of beautification. Decorative painting is also a form of painting that expresses beauty. Compared with genuine painting, genuine painting focuses on the real description of the objective world, while decorative painting is an artistic expression with concreteness, abstraction and imagery, which is between painting and decoration. Its artistic language is characterized by artistic exaggeration, and the most obvious features are the unnatural form, color exaggeration and formal exaggeration of subjective modeling deformation. For example, in ancient times, animal patterns, figure patterns and geometric patterns attached to painted pottery and bronzes were all exaggerated and highly refined. At present, this decorative painting form is often used in New Year pictures, murals, posters and so on. Formed a painting form with national characteristics and regular patterns. The style of decorative painting has formed a diversified trend through the long-term historical development of painting, and its content carries the artist's subjective emotion and aesthetic taste. In the process of creation, reasonable exaggeration, vivid metaphor, clever imagination and even fantasy are generally used to conceive and create. In the form of expression, it emphasizes the combination of various spaces and forms, which is not limited by time and space, and can be conceived and created in combination with different times, different places, different characters, different plots and stories and different seasonal changes. Therefore, we can see that decorative painting is changeable and unique. This paper attempts to expound the artistic characteristics of decorative painting from four aspects: modeling, composition, color and material.

First, the modeling characteristics of decorative painting

The shapes in decorative paintings come from life, and the selected themes are diversified. There is no fixed pattern of modelling technique and scale. The modeling characteristics of decorative painting generally pay attention to the beauty of regularity, order, plane, space and structure. It pays attention to order and law in a visual image, thus producing a sense of rhythm and rhythm vision, giving people a pleasing natural beauty, just as harmonious as music composed of rhyme, level tone and antithesis in rhythmic poetry; However, in the process of summarizing the new artistic modeling, we should also pay attention to the artistic order and embody planarization in the modeling. This is not only to better express the means of objects, but also to choose the angle with rich image characteristics for modeling, but to grasp the silhouette formed by the outer contour line through the method of head-up modeling, thus forming a decorative art form with modern flavor. In addition, considering the integrity of decorative painting modeling, artists should also reflect the beauty of space and structure when creating, and their artistic image is the abstract form of tangible image and the structural beauty of natural image. In a word, the modeling characteristics and formal rules of decorative painting are flexible and diverse, but artists have their own differences due to different creative intentions and techniques in the creative process, so we can't generalize them.

Second, the composition characteristics of decorative painting

"Composition" in Ci Hai means that the artist arranges and handles the relationship and position between people and things in a certain space in order to express the theme and aesthetic effect of the work, and forms individual or partial images into an artistic whole. In China traditional painting, it is called "composition" or "layout". The composition forms of decorative paintings are diverse, and this principle should be followed in general. We can also choose different composition forms according to different themes and themes created by artists. We can use free and diverse composition methods, use some traditional art forms, learn from the excellent composition rules of other arts, be closer to the picture and express the author's inner feelings. This composition method is also a comprehensive management and exploration of the image and structure of the picture.

The composition of decorative painting and realistic painting is very different in creation. Realistic painting mostly considers the knowledge of perspective and uses the theory of focus perspective to express three-dimensional space. However, decorative painting does not stick to a fixed angle in composition. Generally, the content, image and expression form are organized into a whole for design. It can be both head-up and compound, and the creative composition is flexible and diverse, with poetic visual feeling and decoration. For example, Zhang Zeduan's Chinese painting The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival uses this head-up composition to express many things and shapes. And Klimt's Adler? Mrs. Bloch-Bauer adopts composite composition, which can increase the richness, flexibility and decorative meaning of the picture.

Third, the color characteristics of decorative painting

Color is an important expression language of decorative painting art, which has strong subjective expression, romanticism and symbolism. It is different from the color of realistic painting and has its unique formal beauty. It is a further expression of the free use of color on the basis of realistic color. It can not rely on the color relationship between light source and natural objects, but strengthen the artist's personal feelings and highlight the overall effect of the picture. Decorative colors emphasize the overall coordination of tone and picture. In the creative process, you can express yourself according to your own subjective feelings. It is not limited by the inherent color of objective objects, but it is not arbitrary in the use of color, but refined, generalized and exaggerated in creation.

Color is like the flesh and blood of human life. In works of art, color, like the burning fire of life, radiates dazzling brilliance and produces amazing artistic charm. The colors of decorative paintings can express personal feelings. Because of different personalities, experiences, moods and even different environments and times, different people have different views on objective things and different feelings about colors. For example, the "Dance" by the fauvism master Matisse is used to express the pleasure of comforting the soul and vision. It abandons the simulation and scientificity of the western traditional color surface, and introduces the simplicity and pleasure of the oriental decorative color into the expression of its own emotional color. The use of color has a strong decorative effect, and the whole work has a strong visual impact. Another example is the well-known post-impressionist master Van Gogh's work Sunflower, which means that he has special feelings for sunflowers. Sunflower is just a symbol of his personality. The whole work of Sunflower tends to be plane structure, pure, full, orderly and solemn, and it is an artistic work with strong decorative meaning. The use of decorative colors in the whole work has been integrated into his understanding of things and unique feelings.

Fourth, the material characteristics of decorative painting

Decorative painting has obvious material characteristics, which is different from traditional Chinese painting or oil painting. Decorative painting materials are widely used, which can not only make use of the natural characteristics of various materials such as shape, color and texture, but also give full play to the beauty of materials. Generally speaking, decorative painting uses cardboard, rice paper, watercolor paper, silk, cloth and so on. As materials, oil painting, Chinese painting, propylene, watercolor, gouache, toner and other materials are used as pigments, as well as lacquer painting materials, ceramic materials, metal materials, glass, wood, fiber, barbed wire, sawdust, plywood, sand, eggshell stone and other technologies. Especially now, many artists use various forms of comprehensive materials to create decorative paintings, and many unexpected materials can be used as decorative painting materials, thus creating good works of art.

In the use of decorative painting materials, artists will seek suitable materials and techniques to express their personality. Some decorative paintings are just the catharsis of personal feelings in the process of creation, and materials have relatively independent aesthetic significance in them, even taking materials as the main body and aiming at expressing the beauty of materials. It is precisely because of the diversity and richness of decorative painting materials that a set of unique material characteristics has been formed.

In a word, decorative painting has many artistic features. It is different from realistic painting. It has its own unique artistic language. It can exist independently as an art form, and it can be said to be a modern craft painting. It is both an idealized artistic expression and a sublimation of people's thoughts and feelings. It is also an art form that uses highly generalized aesthetic language to embody the artist's consciousness and aesthetic concept. In decorative painting, we can feel the broad vision of concreteness and abstraction, explore art freely, boldly apply the principle of formal beauty of exaggeration and deformation, process natural images and create decorative works of art.

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