The main characteristics of art films

Art films reveal the essence of life through fiction, exaggeration, symbolism and metaphor. To sum up, they have the following main characteristics: China's art films draw rich nutrients from their own traditional paintings, murals, New Year pictures, sculptures, folk crafts and local operas, and gradually form an artistic style, which is called China Animation School. China art film workers believe that although art films are world-wide art with the same characteristics, they should seek resources from their own national art traditions and create their own national art films in terms of artistic style. In their long-term creative practice, they have created many excellent art films with China style and international influence. In the mid-1950s, in order to get rid of foreign influences, China fine arts films began to explore their own nationalization road. The two films, General Pride and Magic Pen, have absorbed the artistic forms and expressions of China's traditional paintings and operas in the aspects of character modeling, background furnishings, movements, language and music, thus creating a precedent for the national style. 1958 produced paper-cuts, which originated from the soil of China folk art, with strong local flavor, simple shape, bright colors, simple patterns and strong decoration. In addition, the characters and backgrounds are made of fine carving techniques, so they have a simple China style. The appearance of 1960 ink cartoon has pushed the national style of China fine arts films to a new peak. It is an ancient painting art in China to create a completely China-style animation art ink painting, which has a history of 1000 years. It pays attention to the expressive technique of "vivid charm and coexistence of reality and reality" and pursues the artistic effect of "implication" and "likeness of spirit", and enjoys a high reputation in the world painting world. "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother" gives new artistic life to the images of frogs, fish and shrimps written by Qi Baishi, a master of contemporary China ink painting. Moody's plays up the majestic momentum of the mountains with bold pen and ink, and depicts the delicate feelings between the shepherd boy and the buffalo with lyrical style. Every painting is a masterpiece of ink painting, full of poetry.

Since the 1960s, Chinese-style art films have been developing continuously. Based on China's ancient mythology, Noisy Heaven is full of the mystery of China's ancient legends. Ina Naughty Sea depicts the image of Nezha, a prodigy in China mythology, with a style close to life, and is good at touching the plot. The artistic styles of these two films have strong colors, fantastic shapes, magnificent scenes and distinctive image characteristics. This is another typical style in China's classical painting art. Since 1980s, the national styles have been diversified. Three Monks is a humorous and satirical short film. Based on China folk proverbs, it has profound implications, adopts chinese comic style, harmoniously unifies content and form, and makes a new breakthrough in national style. At the beginning of the 20th century, American comics developed from the extremely popular "comic story" published in major newspapers. It depicts a ridiculous image with simple lines, with funny content: it is a movable cartoon story, which is considered as a kind of "juggling art". One of the most representative animators is W. McKay. He is an outstanding cartoonist. He started animation creation from 1909 and made 10 cartoons. The first "Little Nemo" was adapted from a set of his comic books. His series of works, The Tamed Dinosaur ── Tudi, is a masterpiece with great influence in society. Besides, Hugh Bate? Green, M. Fleischer, P. Sullivan, etc. They are a group of influential people, and they have made cartoons in comic style.

Disney created a unique style of American comics. His most famous animated stars "Mickey Mouse" and "Donald Duck" laid the foundation of Disney's artistic style. Disney can be called the first artist in the world to make animated films so colorful and expressive. The characteristic of his artistic style is that he put many excellent fairy tales, fables and folklore on the cartoon screen, thus giving full play to his fantasy and exaggerated romantic style. For example, in the famous animated feature film Snow White, he turned the original seven warriors in Grimm's fairy tales into seven dwarfs with exaggerated images and good hearts, which left a deep impression on people. Thanks to Disney's efforts, this feature of animation itself has been fully explored, which is an outstanding contribution of Disney and has a far-reaching impact on the development of animation art in the future. Secondly, Disney spared no effort to play the role of music and effect in the film, making the combination of sound and painting produce new comedy effects. For example, in the short film Skull Dance, several skeletons danced ballet to the music. These skeletons took off their limbs and beat their thin chests with their calves to make a set of xylophone music. He used this method in many films, which made the films have a strong and interesting rhythm. Fantasia, a large-scale musical film, is his masterpiece in this field. In this film, Disney boldly combined Beethoven's pastoral symphony, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, Musorgskiy's night on a barren hill, Schubert's ode to the Virgin with various imaginative dance movements, creating a unique form. He showed rich imagination and unexpected gimmicks in the film. For example, in the short film Donald Duck and Brutto Dog, a duck swallowed a magnet and was attacked by various metals, which made his cartoon gain hundreds of millions of viewers. As early as 19 17, German H. Licht and Swiss V. Egelin created abstract cartoons drawn directly on film with pens. They use abstract graphics, such as circles, squares, waves, grids and changing lines, to blend with each other. It has no physical image, and various patterns exist independently to form a whole. Through various shapes of movements and rhythms, many decorative moving pictures are produced, which are called "visible music". This is a film that pursues visual image purely. The purpose of abstract artists is to deny tradition and realism. When the film entered the sound age, German animator O. Fei Zinger put classical music on the screen and tried to explain it intuitively. After World War II, N McClaren of Canada was a representative figure who shot abstract cartoons. The human movements in his movies give people the feeling of mechanical movement. In the early 1950s, his cartoons such as Neighbor gradually formed their own characteristics. Since 1980s, some people have made some abstract cartoons with computers.