Traditional art before the film

The film Shadow directed by Zhang Yimou is my favorite ink painting style film. The vivid ink and wash effects have given me a full visual feast! But Shadow is not the first ink painting film.

At present, there are only a few ink movies, but they are all extremely beautiful. They are some movies that combine artistic background and cultural stories, and I know three of them. The first ink painting film was Tadpoles Looking for Mom directed by Te Wei, Qian Jiajun and Cheng Tang.

It is an ink painting produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio. At the beginning of the film, Chinese ink painting is presented in a pair of countries, accompanied by guqin and pipa, and the sound camera slowly advances, like a silent lotus pond scene. Tadpoles, shrimps, catfish, turtles, chickens, lotus leaves, water and frogs. Appearing in the film, each one has a charm, vividly portraying the image of ink painting, and the tadpoles sometimes have a very small lens.

This is a very interesting children's popular science feature film with high artistic value. It is an epoch-making work, which conveys China's traditional aesthetic concept and creates a simple, simple, concise and beautiful fairy tale world.

The second ink painting film I know is rendered through the level of ink painting, like a poetic ink animation "Mountains and Waters".

This film is also produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio. He is a novel that presents us with the magnificence of China's landscape painting and China's landscape complex in a unique style, and shows the audience the artistic conception and worldly wisdom of China's landscape painting.

This cartoon can be seen from the film that the combination of ink painting technology and animation design is exquisite. Stylized ink and wash cartoons convey the poetry of China's ink and wash paintings and show the beautiful Chinese style.

The whole film adopts ink-and-wash tone, and ink-and-wash painting is added to the costumes, subtitles and hall decoration, and the story seems to be suitable for unfolding in this tone. Director Zhang Yimou makes good use of art to decorate the film. This film can really bring people the beauty of ink painting!

There are several classic ink painting movies: Little Tadpole Looking for Mom, Moody, Deer Bell, Mountain View, Goddess of Mending Heaven, New Doorbell, etc. The earliest film was "Little Tadpoles Looking for Mom" filmed by Shanghai Animation Film Studio 196 1.

Shadow is the first film work in China that applies the tone of China's ink painting to film and television. This work is not only beautifully composed, but also full of suspense, which is a highlight of many films in 20 18.

With the progress of technology, artistic expressions are also diverse. In the 1960s, ink painting gradually moved to the screen, but it was limited to ink comics. Zhang Yimou, who is pursuing art form, chose to try ink and wash movies, and shadow just gave him a chance.

Shadow was adapted from Zhu Sujin's "Three Kingdoms Jingzhou" script, but Zhang Dao was unwilling to make a different movie, so he later adapted the script and added body double and ink painting. The classic historical adaptation story and the classic ink painting complement each other, which is a breakthrough for the film.

Shadow is not a strictly ink painting, but an ink painting. Shadow is not a strictly ink painting, but an ink painting. In the film, black and white, which are the characteristics of ink painting, are used, and a lot of ink and wash are used in the layout of clothes and halls. At the same time, this film incorporates many classical elements of China.

In addition to ink painting, there are elements such as harp playing, gossip, yin and yang. It is a complete film of China national style, which exports the cultural elements of China to the world.

"Shadow" seems to be the story of the civilian struggle of the nobles in order to survive in the power game. In the story of survival, the film emphasizes the resilience, fate and ability to seize opportunities when encountering civilians in the gap of survival. In this process, everyone has to answer the question "Who am I?". .