On Illustration Art in Picture Books at Home and Abroad —— What is the style of illustration in the famous picture book "Sleeping Buddha"

This paper briefly analyzes the main artistic features of the cutting-edge illustrators in contemporary China. Illustration art seems to be a marginal industry in China, but it is closely integrated with the game industry in China. A large number of cartoonists and illustrators devote themselves to game creation, creating illustrations for game products and making art settings; At the same time, a large number of game artists began to devote themselves to the creation of comics and illustrations. Animation, illustration and games have gradually become a comprehensive art and are moving towards integration. In recent years, a large number of well-known game illustrators and cartoonists have emerged in China. As behind-the-scenes creators, they have conquered the eyes of players and readers again and again. These behind-the-scenes creators make low-key and pragmatic artistic creation, in exchange for a blockbuster that conquers the vision in front of the screen. Below, the author introduces 12 top domestic illustrators and cartoonists, in no particular order, and pays tribute to them! Benjamin, a new and powerful cartoonist in China, has a style of painting: representative works of China New Cartoon School: SENA police officer, no summer flowers, the illusion of afternoon classes, pigeons flying silently, one day, that summer, no one can fly, no one will remember, oranges and saviors. As the first chinese comic family in history to sign books in the United States, Benjamin's "China New School Comics" became a breakthrough for chinese comic overseas. Benjamin, a famous cartoonist in China, was also the first person to sell chinese comic to the European market. He has won the French Angulan Comic Exhibition Award and the first Golden Dragon Award. Ten years of cartoon career has created his unique cartoon style, realistic painting style, saturated colors and modern stories, which can make young readers unconsciously influenced by it in reading. Benjamin is famous for his watercolor painting style which is completely different from that of Japan. His works are colorful, thick and gentle, and exude luxury in beauty and China, giving people a degenerate aesthetic feeling, especially the description of eye details. You can feel the loneliness and pride of the protagonist from the painting. Its extraordinary charm stems from its completely different skills from general illustrations. What is the humanistic connotation of the new illustration art brought to readers by new horizons and new senses? Visual culture is not only visual art, but any cultural style in which people directly obtain information and interpret meaning through visual perception. Professor Zhang Shuyu's definition of visual culture in the book Introduction to Visual Culture is: "A culture with image symbols as its constituent elements and visual perception as its external expression is collectively called visual culture". Therefore, in addition to traditional visual arts such as painting, sculpture, architecture, handicrafts, drama and dance, mass media such as photography, movies, television and multimedia computer networks are also indispensable components of visual culture. All these are the existence of illustration art. Because of this, I want to make a preliminary discussion on "illustration art" from the perspective of visual culture, and analyze the influence of illustration art on visual culture from the educational value of illustration in visual culture and the influence of visual experience on illustration art creation. Looking at Illustration Art from the Perspective of Visual Culture When talking about "visual culture", American cultural scholar Daniel Bell said: "I think it is an absolute fact that contemporary culture is visual culture, not printing culture." He also emphasized that "the essence of contemporary tendency" is "eager for action, pursuing novelty and coveting sensation". Visual culture has become the mainstream form of contemporary culture, which has a far-reaching impact on people. More and more people begin to read from the perspective of visual culture. It can be seen that people's reading behavior is turning: reading based on printed text is gradually changing to reading based on visual images, which leads to great changes in reading objects, reading methods, reading nature, reading psychology and functional value. However, the gap between the new form of visual culture and people's traditional visual experience is puzzling, which is not a simple problem, but a problem related to people's cultural literacy and quality of life. We use illustrations to interpret China culture from the perspective of communication, which is an important way to explore the evolution, reorganization and evolution of China culture, and at the same time, it makes the study of media and national cultural communication increasingly important. When it comes to illustration, people often think of such scenes: images in books and magazines, images in outdoor advertisements, and exaggerated symbols, cartoon characters and deformed symbols drawn quickly. Through these superficial phenomena, we can find that illustration is the real aesthetic product. Like poetry, dance and other art forms, it is a form of expression that reflects people's inner feelings and a personalized life confession. For example, Jimmy thinks that "image" should be another fresh literary language in Shu Jie. In his works, he created a smooth and poetic picture, and exuded a deep and charming style. Jimmy's story leads everyone who appreciates his works to see and believe the beauty and goodness in the world, and also reflects the bits and pieces of modern life, so everyone can find a kind of reflection and sustenance in his story. Perhaps this is the charm of Jimmy's works. Another example is the picture book author Qian Haiyan. She is a famous young female cartoonist who has risen in recent years. Her cartoon works are humorous and witty, which contains a delicate spirit and profound humanistic spirit. She has a unique perspective on observing life, so in her works, a few cartoons and a few concise words reflect her unique wisdom in life. It can be seen that looking at illustration art from the perspective of visual culture can also enable us to obtain the thought and existence state represented by a certain era or a certain writer, which can be accepted and recognized by people in the contemporary information age. The Educational Value of Illustrations in Visual Culture Visual culture has new connotations and development opportunities, while information culture has brought new breakthroughs for its own development. In such an era atmosphere, visual culture and information culture began to be highly integrated and promoted each other, which naturally had a positive impact on all levels of society, and contemporary education was no exception. It can be said that in extracurricular life, visual culture is everywhere, such as TV, video, internet and various newspapers and books. In this real world full of visual symbols, how to make students better understand and accept the educational value of illustrations and get more effective information is directly related to the development potential of students and the improvement of teaching quality. Text illustrations contain rich humanistic connotations. On the basis of studying text language, we further think about text illustrations, and guide the method of obtaining information by borrowing text illustrations, which will guide students to understand visual culture on the basis of understanding this method. For example, how is the central theme reflected in text illustrations? What information can be obtained from the background of the illustration? How to find more information from the details in the illustrations? How does this illustration impress readers? On this basis, with the help of information technology, the transfer training is extended to multimedia resources or network resources, and the role characteristics of visual images are grasped by comparing and distinguishing the differences between "text with map" and "picture with text". For example, illustrations in some texts not only reveal the meaning of the corresponding text language, but also contain rich connotations. This is because these illustrations are not only the author's simple description of the text language, but the author's re-creation of the work. The lines, light and shade, and position management on the screen are all painted with the author's emotional color. French Jean rattle once put forward in the article "The Challenge of Science and Technology to Culture": "Image culture, especially image culture, cannot be underestimated, because they act on emotions through images and have had and will continue to have a far-reaching impact on expression and value system." Mr. Lu Xun once said: "The illustration of books is to decorate books and increase readers' interest, but that kind of power can supplement words." "Feng Zikai had illustrated nine novels such as The True Story of Ah Q before his death. He said: "These illustrations are like putting a microphone on Mr. Lu Xun's speech and amplifying his voice. "Indeed, in a sense, illustrations are an artistic amplification of some written language information, which is irreplaceable. Especially in the information age, in the vision of visual culture, text illustrations have new connotations and new meanings. How to correctly understand the modern educational value of text illustrations is the voice of the times and the need of students' development. The influence of visual experience on the creation of illustration works Illustration belongs to painting art, which appeals to vision. Illustration works not only show their unique instant shapes and lines, but also often show some aesthetic orientation of the creator. If the creator wants readers to understand his works well and have feelings with him, he not only requires the creator to have rich visual experience, but also must be able to correctly grasp the readers' visual psychological schema. Only in this way can the creator's works show vitality in the generation. Of course, readers need a certain visual experience when interpreting works, which has inherent aesthetic feeling and moral significance, because visual experience is a kind of visual psychological schema of human beings. Our visual psychology is not a blank. From the beginning of contact with the world, various visual experiences gradually accumulated in our hearts. Various visual shocks of the world and society are processed and refined, and mirror images are produced in some neurons of the brain, which becomes the premise for us to further accept new visual stimuli-called psychological schema in psychology. Heidegger pointed out: "the world image does not mean the image about the world, but the world is conceived and grasped as an image, and the world image has not evolved from the previous medieval world image to the modern world image;" It is better to say that the world has basically become an image, which marks the essence of modernity. "Therefore, visual experience needs its existence and sublimation not only for creation, but also for life. It can be said that today's digital illustration can also be understood as a new variety of illustration. Compared with digital illustrations, illustrations using conventional painting media can become "traditional illustrations". Digital illustrations and "traditional" illustrations do have something in common. The basic knowledge of "traditional" illustration, such as sketch, colorimetry, perspective and anatomy, is completely applicable to digital illustration. I think it is inconceivable for digital illustrations to leave the support of visual experience. It can be said that digital visual experience has created a new art of digital illustration. But for digital illustration, technology alone is not enough. Technology is a tool to convey artists' thoughts, and the soul of digital illustration comes from its artistry and visual experience. Visual experience only rises to the category of art when it is used by artists for artistic creation. Specifically, artistry refers to the depth of artistic thinking, the height of artistic accomplishment and the comprehensiveness of artistic ability conveyed by digital illustrations. Artistic ability refers to the ability to realize artistic conception, such as creative ability, modeling ability, color ability, etc., which is an important embodiment of the artist's artistic level. Visual experience and artistry are the most important parts of digital illustrations. As william mitchell said, "Image representation is affecting every level of culture with unprecedented power, from the deepest and most subtle thinking to the most vulgar and shallow production of mass media. "In the face of this era monopolized by visual culture, the ancient illustration art still exists and is popular among elites who stick to critical realism. In their images, the depth of the picture is compressed to varying degrees, and with the flat painting of a large area of pure color, the main schema emerges obviously, which effectively enhances the visual tension and appeal of the image. In addition, it is difficult for us to find a clear artistic style from their images. Mixed between their images are variations of various artistic styles, such as realism or expressionism. Traditional painting style is no longer the standard for them to define their own artistic style, but only as a reference and reference form that emphasizes artistic individuality. What is revealed from the images is more about their self-feelings about the times as individuals living in the present. The concept in the image means that it has gradually broken away from the shackles of traditional illustrations and dominated the whole artistic process. Although their art is not completely divorced from the category of elite consciousness and social reflection theory, they have made a new description of contemporary illustrations in the relationship between social reality and individuals. From a direct point of view, vision is the most important way to feel, own and enjoy life. From an indirect point of view, vision is the only way to feel, own and enjoy life-in indirect feeling, owning and enjoying life, visual experience can cover and replace all other sensory experiences, while all other sensory experiences cannot. The deepest motivation of human demand for visual culture is mainly determined by the basic position and important role of visual experience in human life. Therefore, the influence of visual experience on illustration culture is historic and profound. Illustration art is a way to express the value of human social life, face new situations and touch the future. It opens up a new form of life feeling, condenses new value resources for people's survival, and transforms it into the achievements of iconology, internalizing it into the ethical expectation and survival foundation of social individuals. Therefore, I hope that domestic illustrators can also broaden their horizons and find real creativity and inspiration through the confusing situation. For visual experience, we should examine it in the cultural background and think about their possible correlation, rather than copying it. What is the illustration style of the famous picture book "vole Buddha"? Leo Lionni 19 10 was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in May. His father is a Belgian Jewish businessman and his mother is a soprano. Because his home is near the art museum and his uncles are architects, painters and art collectors, he has been immersed in a rich artistic atmosphere since he was a child. /kloc-moved to America and Italy with his family since he was 0/3 years old. 1935 received a doctorate in economics. 1945, there was an anti-semitic wave in Europe, and they were forced to flee the United States with their families. Leonie is a brilliant and unconstrained artistic genius, proficient in painting, sculpture, graphic design, printing, ceramics, photography ... and once served as the design director of Fortune magazine 10 years. During this period, he held solo exhibitions and design exhibitions in Europe and America for many times, and served as the president of the American Graphic Arts Society and the chairman of the 1953 international design conference. 1955 won the best advertising production designer award of the American Graphic Arts Association, and 1956 won the gold medal of the Architectural Alliance. 1984, when he was awarded the American Graphic Arts Association Award, he was evaluated as having deeply influenced at least three generations through his artistic creation, design creation, leadership and talent training in the design field, and creation of children's picture books. Humanism and rationalism run through his works. Although Leonie was 49 years old when he started to create picture books, he started a new era of picture books. The New York Times once praised him like this: "If picture books are a new visual art of our time, then Leo Leoni is the master of this style. "His picture books have won numerous awards, among which One-inch Bug, Little Black Fish, Voldemort Alfred, Alexander and Clockwork Mouse are 196 1 964, 1968 and 1970 respectively. 1999 10, the master of picture books known as "color magician", died in Italy at the age of 89.