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Beijing Opera Masks 京劇臉譜
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Drawing a Chinese Opera Mask
Different colors represent different personalities.
By 04/08/2010
Resources From: Beijing Opera Mask
Skills in Painting Beijing Opera Masks There is a strong nature in the art in masks. Drawing masks must also have attitudinal polytechnic nature, just like hand writing and painting. When you draw masks with a pen brush, you should do it with exactness and pithiness. The romance should be suitable to let others see clearly where it is thick and where it is light. Drawing the face the artist should spare Chinese ink as if it were gold. In this way the drawing looks lifelike and has spirits and the people will like the mask. In drawing masks you can't copy a book. You should draw masks according to the actors face model. Copying the feature and the play that you will join in. The drawing can incarnate dramatically the personality colors and the mettle of the part. Notably, Beijing opera "colored face" Mr. Hao Shouchen has the good name of "Living Cao Cao." Not only because of his fine act, the Cao Cao mask which he created has made a good effect. This expert researched and assayed the person and drew the Cao Cao mask, drew the lines and lamination in the brow part in the face.
Link to :Movie Farewell My Concubine
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Mask Introduction (in Chinese) Resources from: Mian Mian Ju Dao
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