Compared with previous works, The Mountain Color, the pinnacle of Chinese ink animation, has become perfect, because it shows the artistic conception of mountains and rivers to a superb level. The whole film focuses on the performance of mountains and rivers, both static scenery and biology, which are completely integrated into the freehand brushwork of Chinese painting. What this animation leaves to the audience is the more profound and far-reaching charm beauty and the highest realm of artistic conception beauty, plus the rich timbre of guqin, which makes people relaxed and happy, thus deducing a profound animation.
What is the artistic conception? Generally speaking, artistic conception is the combination of scenes, or "scene blending" Generally speaking, art is the reflection of the author's subjective consciousness to the objective reality, but due to the differences in content, theme, genre and form, it has produced different artistic expression effects. Some are lyrical, some are "broad", some are soul-stirring, some are touching, some are touching the landscape of space, some are artistic, and some are not artistic. Therefore, artistic conception has its own performance and characteristics, which is different from other arts, that is, art has a spatial image. Although some of this spatial image is not directly expressed, it can also indirectly arouse people's association with it. Therefore, when people feel that a painting or a poem has artistic conception, they will present a fresh, quiet, cheerful and magnificent sense of space in front of them, as if they were in nature. It can be said that the artistic conception is mainly characterized by expressing the author's thoughts and feelings according to the spatial environment.
Both painting and poetry pursue artistic conception, and the relationship between artistic conception and poetry and painting is that poetry produces meaning and painting produces environment. Poetry and meaning are subjective feelings, while painting and environment are objective scenes. Subjective and objective fit, that is, there is painting in poetry, poetry in painting, intention in context and intention in context. For example, the description of "the sunset is infinitely beautiful and buried by the coming night" in the poem vividly shows the short-term nostalgia and cherish for the beautiful scenery. The gentle sunset in the evening reflects a sad, sad and sad scene, and the poet's instant feelings remain in his heart. This visual image with color contrast forms the artistic conception of the picture.
The animated film Mountain Water Scenery, which is interpreted in the form of traditional ink painting, is full of the charm of China's beauty, and expresses the long-term pursuit of China literati "worrying about the world first, enjoying the world later, and the road is long, and I will go up and down" in the way of China. Objectively, it shows the spirit of cultural inheritance and the traditional humanistic spirit. The whole work blends the interest of pen and ink and beautiful poetic meaning into every picture. Through ink painting, it shows the misty rivers, lingering mountains and rivers, Yun Qi and the voices and emotions of characters, which makes people completely intoxicated between the mountains and rivers composed of ink painting.
Artistic conception, as the highest realm of China's artistic creation, has aesthetic characteristics. Ink animation combines ink painting techniques with film techniques to form a "living" flowing picture. "Mountain Color" combines many modern animation techniques, gives full play to the characteristics of China's ink painting, and creates a unique artistic conception in the history of Chinese and foreign art, which is embodied in three aspects:
(A) the reality of environmental beauty.
In the Tang Dynasty, Liu Yuxi said that "images are born abroad" and pointed out that artistic conception has two levels: "image" (reality) and "realm" (emptiness). Imagination and reality are a pair of important theoretical categories in China's paintings, which contain the unity of opposites of looming, hiding, light and shade, and black and white. It shows the yin and yang changes of all things in the landscape and the unique feelings of the creative subject, and the coexistence of reality and reality is endless. Virtual refers to the blank space outside the pen line; Reality refers to the real part with ink and objects. Ink painting often simply sketches or even omits the background, leaving a large blank, highlighting the subject with virtual reality, expanding the artistic conception of the picture and enhancing the performance effect. "Mountain View" uses "half" composition and blank space, showing the sweetness and elegance of smoke and water, fresh and elegant; With the brush strokes of "Plum Blossoms Dotting Petals", the vast mountains and rivers are depicted in rich colors. The "white embellishment" of water and the "black rhyme" of ink blend in the flowing picture, and the virtual reality and the virtual reality form an ideal artistic space.
(B) the hazy beauty of national music
In music, we often experience a hazy beauty, because the image of music is uncertain. When music begins, no matter whether the Sound of Music describes mountains or water, pine or bamboo, it is impossible for viewers to have a concrete image feeling. It was in the gloom and intoxication that he didn't know where the beauty was that he felt the existence of artistic beauty. A major feature of Chinese ink animation is to make full use of national music. Colorful national music reflects all aspects of China traditional culture and becomes an important carrier of China traditional culture. China's traditional world outlook is "the unity of man and nature", worshiping the nature that creates all things and attaching importance to people's inner experience, while music comes from people's perception of nature. The sounds of nature, such as flute, wind, underwater sound, wild goose sound and eagle sound, echoed with melodious piano sound for a long time, forming a wonderful symphony, especially the sublimation of piano art, which created a kind of artistic conception of scene blending for the film, and the realm of mind and nature being integrated.
(C) the profound charm of the United States
"Charm" refers to the endless factors and effects of beauty contained in artistic conception, including emotion, reason, meaning, rhyme, interest and taste. In Mountain View, the old violinist bid farewell to the little fisherman and poured out his praise and blessing for life, so the old violinist disappeared into the vast Shan Ye. The appearance of the images of eagle, lonely goose and river leads the viewer to a broader and richer indirect image, which makes people not only see the scene of parting, but also feel the profound feeling of parting more deeply. It is the indirect image triggered by the direct image that constitutes the artistic conception of the picture and produces a lasting appeal in the artistic conception. The pain of parting and the depth of friendship are all in this charm. The artistic conception is so simple and true, but the charm is abstract and wonderful.
In a word, no matter from the historical angle or the realistic level, ink animation is undoubtedly a wonderful work in China's animated films. Mountain scenery is a well-deserved masterpiece of China's animation, and it is a peak for China artists to pursue their own nationalization in the animation field.