Ink animation is the best work - "Landscape and Water" Appreciation

This is a film that can be understood without any narration or introduction.

A masterpiece worthy of worship by all chinese people!

This is the final work of the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio's ink animation films.

It is also the most awarded film in ink animation.

Recognized as a model of ink animation that no one has surpassed so far,

His poetic temperament and distant and light pictures have reached the realm of the unity of heaven and man.

"Landscape and Water" is the last ink animation film put into production by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio.

The film invited the famous Chinese painting master Wu Shanming to paint,

and the famous guqin player Mr. Gong Yi for the soundtrack,

The film is the general director of the famous animation artist and one of the founders of the animated film "Chinese School".

In 1960, two new forms of art film were born in China: origami and ink animation.

Ink animation can be called a major innovation of Chinese animation.

It introduces traditional Chinese ink painting into animation production,

The virtual and realistic artistic conception and the light and elegant picture have made a major breakthrough in the artistic style of the cartoon.

In 1960, the Shanghai Meiyi Film Studio made a short film called "Ink Animation Fragment" as an experiment.

In the same year, the first ink animation film "Little Tadpole Finds Mother" was born,

The small animal shape is taken from Qi Baishi's pen.

As soon as the film came out, it became a sensation all over the world.

Unlike ordinary cartoons,

Ink animation without contour lines,

Ink renders naturally on rice paper,

Naturally, each scene is an excellent ink painting.

The character's movements and expressions are beautiful and flexible,

The background of the splashed ink landscape is magnificent,

The soft tone is poetic.

It embodies the aesthetics of Chinese painting "between the like and the unlike", and the artistic conception is far-reaching.

There is no dialogue throughout the cartoon,

But there are rich sound and painting to promote the development of the plot,

It tells of a scribe in a boat who fainted on the side of a mountain,

Fishermen and teenagers rescue each other,

The scribe woke up and took out the guqin and played a song,

It turned out that the fisherman boy was very impressed,

Hence the story of his discipleship.

Although the story of "Landscape and Water" is not complicated,

But rich in Classical Chinese elements,

The most obvious of these is the guqin, an object that runs through the film.

As an indispensable and important part of traditional Chinese music culture, the guqin,

At least three thousand years of history,

As the first of the paintings and calligraphy of qinqi,

It is the highest-ranking musical instrument in Chinese culture.

And the guqin in the film is not difficult to see that it symbolizes the chinese nation's broad and profound,

The essence of traditional culture with a long history,

The scribes taught the fishing boy not only the skill of the piano,

Towards the end of the film,

For the sake of the fishing children, the scribes can further appreciate the spiritual charm of the guqin,

Give his guqin to the fishing boy,

It means the inheritance of traditional culture,

And then the fishing boy realized the master's bitter heart,

Feel the ancient atmosphere of nature among the mountains,

The walking scribe heard the sound of the fishing boy playing the piano after he felt it,

Inheritance is complete.

Other than that

Many sound and painting techniques are quite characteristic of Chinese poetry,

The intention of the guqin can be described as a technique of entrusting things and words,

There are also many lyrical scenes,

For example, the sound of the wind whistling in the mountains appropriately renders the obstacle and long way of inheriting good culture.

The road is long and the road is long,

Let people add sadness and reflection to this beautiful and melodious artistic conception.

When the scribe saw the growth of the eagle and thought that his education of the fishing boy needed to go to a higher level,

It is a metaphor for people.

The aesthetic taste of the Song Dynasty people changed from the people and things of the past to the observation and experience of natural scenes.

This is mostly because after the Middle And Tang Dynasties, people, especially scholars, lived in the wealth and comfort of the Tang Dynasty.

Don't worry about basic consumer information,

So there is a kind of tranquility,

The ideal of a "retreat" life of leisure enjoyment.

As a result, the depiction of flowers, birds, fish and insects and natural scenery can gradually be reflected in the ink paintings.

Similar to modern urban people, they are tired of urban life, and gradually have a longing for the tranquility and simplicity of the countryside.

"Landscape and Water" is presented to the eyes of the world with a detached, unattractive worldly state of mind,

At a time of rapid economic development after the reform and opening up,

What the older generation of animation artists pondered,

It is in economic development,

Western culture quickly entered the Chinese market,

Where to go in a situation where traditional Chinese culture is constantly being marginalized.

The natural pursuit of the Song people in "Landscape and Water",

It has become a call for the return of the original heart,

But alas, despite the amazement of the world,

Art films finally can't survive,

So much so that this film became the last treasure of Chinese animation before the new century.

"Landscape and Water" produced in 1988,

Not only as the finale of Chinese ink animation,

It can also be said to be the masterpiece of the early Chinese animation glory period.

It's not that there are no good cartoons after China.

Rather, it is the fault line problem after the artistic attempt and pursuit of the fusion of Classical Chinese aesthetics and modern film technology in early Chinese animation.

Early Chinese animation is not only the historical mission entrusted by the times to the older generation of animation masters

(In the early cartoons, not only can you see the brilliant Chinese culture, but also the author's political metaphors for the changes of the times.)

What should be more fortunate for people in the new century, especially the current Chinese animators, is:

Animation in our country has a solid foundation laid by the older generation of masters.

"Landscape and Water" has become a masterpiece in the case of unfavorable income,

Its content must also have its own mourning of the times,

The guqin in the hands of the scribe was handed over to the fishing boy,

But what will the fisherman achieve with this guqin?

It is blue that is better than blue,

Or just stand still,

Or put aside the interest is getting weaker,

Cultural inheritance is obstructed and long,

The older generation of animation masters opened up this cultural path,

They will hope and sincerely teach the development of Chinese animation in future generations,

It is conveyed through the "Landscape and Water Situation", which is similar to the end of early Chinese animation.

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