"The Marriage of Little Erhei" is a masterpiece of the famous writer Zhao Shuli in the 1950s, the author uses witty and simple language to reveal the conflict between the old and new concepts in the countryside in the early liberation period through the tortuous and dramatic marriage of Yu Xiaoqin and Xiao Erhei. Since the mid-twentieth century, plays, music, films, etc. adapted and created with it have been widely circulated throughout the country and reached the point of becoming a household name. As early as the Yan'an period before liberation, there were "Little Erhei" painted by Luo Gongliu and Zhang Yingxue in the form of woodcuts, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many painters used "Little Erhei Marriage" as a model for comic strip creation:
In 1950, the famous manga artist Yonetani created the comic strip "Little Two Black Marriage";
In 1959, the famous comic strip artist He Youzhi created a set of "Little Two Black Marriages" in the form of New Year paintings, which were published by the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House and became classics;
In 1980, He Youzhi created a comic strip "Little Erhei Marriage" in the form of white painting on the basis of the original New Year painting "Little Erhei Marriage";
In 1984, Chinese painter Yang Lizhou and Wang Yingchun collaborated to create a set of comic strips of "Little Two Black Marriage", which won the second prize of the third national comic strip in 1986;
In 1996, He Youzhi once again made a new theme, reinterpreting "Little Two Black Marriage" in the form of freehand painting, and won the silver medal of the 1999 National Art Exhibition.
Later, He Youzhi also created "Little Erhei Marriage" many times, becoming the painter who painted the most and had the greatest influence.
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Time
name
author
form
Yan'an period
"Little Two Black"
Luo Gongliu, Zhang Yingxue
Woodcut comic strip
In 1950
"Little Two Black Marriage"
Yonetani
Comics
In 1959
He Youzhi
Compartmentalized New Year Paintings
In 1980
White drawing comic strip
In 1984
Yang Lizhou and Wang Yingchun
In 1996
Freehand painting
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, has a special love for "Little Two Black Marriage"</h1>
He Youzhi (1922-), born in Shanghai, a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang, is a famous comic strip artist. He began to draw comic strips in 1949, and after 1956, he became a comic strip creator at the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. He was an editor at the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House and was seconded to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1980. Director of the Comic Strip Art Committee of the China Artists Association and Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Artists Association. He Youzhi has been engaged in the creation of comic strips for more than 50 years, and has created more than 100 comic strip works, making significant contributions to the creation of comic strips and line drawing art in China, and his representative works include "Great Changes in Mountains and Townships", "Fifteen Continuous", "Chaoyanggou", etc., of which "Great Changes in Mountains and Townships" won the first prize at the first national comic book appraisal conference in 1963.
He Youzhi has a special love for "Little Erhei Marriage", He Youzhi said: "I like Zhao Shuli's novel, the things he writes in his novels are interesting, the characters he writes are interesting, "Little Erhei Marriage" is the most interesting one, the Three Immortals and er zhuge are the most interesting two. If you think it's funny, you will germinate and like it, and if you like it, you will have the desire to paint it..." [1] He Youzhi's personality is very witty and humorous, so he will have a special love for the two negative characters in "Little Erhei Marriage", Sanxian Gu and Er Zhuge Ge. He Youzhi has created comic strips with the theme of "Little Two Black Marriage" for many times, of which the more influential four times, each adopting different forms of expression, the style characteristics have also changed greatly, this article analyzes the changes in He Youzhi's artistic creation ideas in different historical periods through the comparison and analysis of these four sets of comic strips.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, the first time</h1>
In 1959, He Youzhi first created "The Marriage of Little Erhei", which adopted the form of a traditional New Year painting and was printed and distributed by the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. This set of New Year comic strips is brightly colored, festive and bright, figurative and realistic, with the characteristics of New Year paintings. Elder He said: "I chose this story to paint the New Year painting, one is that I think it is interesting and can be played; the other is that the content is festive and meets the requirements of being a New Year painting." [2] In the choice of pictures, He Youzhi highly summarized the storyline, selected several main scenes of "Little Two Black Marriage", and presented the entire storyline intact with 12 pictures. Each picture captures the most typical character actions, and the story has a plot, such as Xiaoqin and Erhei, Erhei rebelling against Erzhu Ge, Jin Wang flirting with Xiaoqin, matchmaker proposing relatives, Xiaoqin refusing to marry, discussing countermeasures, persuading the mayor to educate, Xiaoqin Erhei getting married, etc., so it has become a classic of "Xiao Erhei Marriage".
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, the second time</h1>
Due to the wide sleeves of the ancients and the wrinkles of the clothes, they developed a variety of line drawing forms. But in modern times, people's attire has changed greatly, and if modern characters are still represented in the form of traditional line drawing, it seems a bit inadequate, so innovation must be carried out. In this context, in 1980, He Youzhi created the comic strip "Little Erhei Marriage" for the second time, in order to express new life and new characters, He Youzhi explored techniques on the basis of eighteen drawings, using the form of white painting, although the background treatment was extremely simple, but the character portrayal was vivid and vivid, fully showing the style of the people in the Taihang Mountains during the War of Resistance Against Japan. The lines are simple and powerful, the lines are clean and neat, and the painter's profound white painting skills can be seen from the composition and hook lines of the picture. Due to the vertical composition, the picture has changed slightly from the first creation of "Little Two Black Marriage", but several classic scenes are almost exactly the same, even the costumes and costumes are similar.
Zhao Shuli, "Little Two Black Marriage", He Youzhi, 1980, white painting
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, the third time</h1>
The third time He Lao painted "Little Two Black Marriage" was in 1996. In 1993, He Youzhi attended the "Comic Book Seminar" in Lushan, and Lin Yingshan, president of Liaoning Fine Arts Publishing House, asked He Lao for a manuscript, and He Lao happily agreed. Although He Lao's previous creation of "Little Erhei Marriage" has become a classic, after more than thirty years, the social environment has undergone earth-shaking changes, so He Lao decided to paint "Little Erhei Marriage" again.
This time, He Lao gave full play to the talent of humor and changed to the form of Expression of Chinese Freehand Painting, using a brisk tone to achieve a comedic effect. For example, in order to depict the old and beautiful "Three Immortals", the painter not only uses bright and thick powder to smear the old face, but also uses lines to show her shyness to the fullest, and the next side is still endlessly inscribed with poetry: "Half a hundred aunts and aunts are new, the fairy goddess has a reputation, men and women and children compete to see, and the gods and immortals are afraid of embarrassment." ”[3]
The biggest innovation of this comic strip is the composition. The author rearranges the picture according to his own understanding and creates a new set of composition methods: a layout has two main and secondary pictures, the main painting plot, and there is a strong complementary relationship between the sub-picture and the main painting, or echo, or innuendo, or contrast. For example, Xiao Erhei appeared in a scene, the main picture depicts Xiao Erhei sitting on the hillside to wipe the gun when herding sheep, while the secondary painting is Xiao Qin washing the sheets, and the image of Xiao Qin is vaguely hidden behind the sheets, suggesting the relationship between Xiao Qin and Xiao Er Hei. Another example is the twentieth scene of Jin Wang's attempt to insult Xiaoqin, and Xiaoqin's struggle is in strong contrast to the flirtation between the three immortals and the crowd in the side painting. The comic strip won the Silver Medal at the 1999 National Art Exhibition.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >4, the fourth time</h1>
At the beginning of the new century, He Youzhi donated all the original comic strips he had created all his life to the Shanghai Art Museum. He said, "I've thought about it for a long time, I can't leave them to my children, that's a nuisance." Isn't it very festive for 5 grandchildren to get married and each draw a picture of "Little Two Black Marriage" to send them? [4] In 2010, when his grandchildren were married, the 89-year-old He Youzhi reinterpreted "Little Erhei Marriage" in manga form as a wedding gift to his grandson.
This set of comic strip characters is exaggerated and the action is clumsy, making the personality of the character jump on the paper. In particular, the bright red on the face of the Three Immortals made her demon stand out. This set of comic strips is mainly ink painting, with occasional dot dyeing; mainly character movements, and the background is almost completely omitted. Although it is an ink painting, it is full of flavor, funny, playful pen and ink fun, making the character image interesting.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > comparison of two and four sets of "Little Two Black Marriages"</h1>
The development and change of things in real life is continuous, but comic strips can only intercept specific moments in life to express them. [5] He Youzhi's later "The Marriage of Little Erhei" was basically deleted and adjusted on the basis of the first creation, and several major scenes were expressed in several subsequent creations, such as Xiaoqin and Erhei, Xiaoqin resisting marriage, Erhei and Erzhu Ge, Jin Wang flirting with Xiaoqin, matchmaker proposing relatives, Xiaoqin Erhei discussing countermeasures, Jin Wang's arrest of adultery, the district chief's persuasion and education, the Three Immortals' Upper District, and Xiaoqin's erhei marriage. The comic strip artist must capture the "nodes" that best express the content of the story, and select the most critical, tense, and wonderful moments of the characters' activities to depict.
Two black and small parsley
Erhei rebelled against Erzhu Ge
He Youzhi's first creation of "Little Two Black Marriage", the picture is mainly static, even if it is dynamic, it is also the instantaneous freeze of action, the picture lacks dynamics; and the second creation of "Little Two Black Marriage" Lines have a dynamic, even if the character action amplitude is not large, or a static picture, but the dense lines of the character's clothing seem to have the wind blowing. The first and second creations adopt the technique of modernism, whether it is a New Year painting or a white painting, from dress to the scene, all emphasize the characteristics of Shanxi folk, while the third and fourth creations of "Little Two Black Marriage", the character action amplitude is exaggerated, and the background has been simplified to nothing. Although the forms of the four creations are different, the main picture is basically unchanged, while the style is obviously different between the first two and the last two. If the first two times show realism, the last two times are more freehand, the first two times reflect the obvious characteristics of modernism, and the latter has more characteristics and creative consciousness of postmodernism, and has completely jumped out of the realism, from realism to freehand, from freehand to comic.
project
For the first time
second
Third time
Fourth time
In 2010
Freehand comic strip
Comic strip
style
Realistic and modern
Freehand, postmodern
attitude
Serious
Casual, ridiculous
The district chief persuaded the education
In the 1950s and 1960s, He Youzhi's "Little Erhei Marriage" was inevitably and more or less influenced by the ideology of the times, and "Little Erhei Marriage" was interpreted from the political level. By the 1990s, the discourse of political power gradually faded, and He Youzhi's third and fourth creation of "Little Two Black Marriage" abandoned its political connotation and ideological core, and interpreted this classic more from the perspective of art and self-perception. Although he still paints plots and stories, the painter prefers to express his artistic personality and aesthetic taste, captures the humorous and cheerful spiritual temperament of the original, and is more relaxed and casual in his creation, so it is more vivid and interesting. From the changes in the artistic styles created in previous times, the changes in He Youzhi's artistic creation ideas in different historical periods can be analyzed. Through comparison, it can be found that He Youzhi has been constantly surpassing himself, the picture is more and more simple, the brushwork is more sophisticated than the time, the composition is more exquisite than the time, and the style is more and more freehand.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, He Youzhi's comic strip art</h1>
The real comic book artist is disdainful of illustrated text, he always expresses his understanding of the story in a pictorial way. After He Youzhi thoroughly ate the ideological content, storyline, and artistic characteristics of the original work, he was not bound by the original work, jumped out and restructured the story, and arranged the picture. According to his own experience and understanding of life, he "created" various details that are not in many literary works and may exist in life, thus expanding the ideological and artistic connotations of the story and highlighting the character of the characters. [6] He Youzhi pays special attention to details, is good at portraying the image personality of different characters, the costumes that conform to the identity of the characters, the character dynamics and expressions that fit the storyline, and the plot is particularly vivid and interesting.
In terms of character image shaping, He Youzhi attaches great importance to the behavior and actions of the characters, and "small actions" play a great role in portraying the psychological activities of the characters. Sometimes even through the meticulous depiction of the "small actions" of the characters, the character description is increased, reflecting a strong artistic charm. For example, XiaoQin resisted marriage, the first and second characters had a small range of actions, the characters' resistance was not strong, Xiaoqin just turned her back, then, the third and fourth times were very fierce, XiaoQin pulled the silk as a bride price and was throwing it to the ground, while the Three Immortals were screaming in the back.
Parsley resists marriage
He Youzhi was a comic strip artist created by a specific era and a specific country, making comic strip painting detached from pediatrics and became an art. He Youzhi talked about his feelings about his comic strip creation: "Capture feelings from life, find language from tradition, and discover yourself from creative practice" [7]. This is a summary of the experience of He Lao's lifelong creative practice. He Youzhi's comic strip creation is not only an illustration of the original text, but also a bold imagination based on his own life experience, creating a reasonable and vivid picture, with words in the painting, intriguing. [8] He Youzhi's comic strip re-creation has, in a sense, independent of literary works and has independent aesthetic value. The original work of "Little Two Black Marriage" is well-known to the population, known to women and children, and Mr. He's artistic creation, which complements each other perfectly and is a perfect combination of literature and art.