Peking Opera Mask Painting (Weng School) Painting Techniques
Facial makeup evolved from the masks worn by the Tang Dynasty music actors and the pictures of the deputy Jing in military plays. Peking opera facial makeup is an art of freehand and exaggerated painting. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Peking opera gradually formed a fairly complete artistic style and performance method. Peking opera facial makeup, based on the advantages of facial makeup in various local operas, has been fully developed through the exploration, research, processing, improvement, innovation and reform of several generations of famous actors and dramatists, forming a complete set of makeup patterns. The Peking opera facial makeup schools that have naturally formed in Beijing now mainly include the Weng School, the Liu School, the Wang School, the Gao School, etc. As the representative facial makeup art in Beijing, the Weng (Ouhong) School is the first. The Peking opera facial makeup of the Weng School originated from life and was displayed on the stage, allowing people to see the appearance and peek into the heart. It has the artistic functions of "implying praise and criticism" and "distinguishing good from evil", and created the five artistic characteristics of drama facial makeup: explanatory, symbolic, character, commentary and pictographic. The techniques of drawing the facial makeup are: drafting, inking, painting the background color, painting the main color, painting the intermediate color, and finally applying gold or silver, adding the finishing touch, adding poems, writing the style of falling flowers and flowing water, stamping (most of the works are characters, and each character needs to be stamped), and mounting. Traditional opera expresses the cultural accumulation of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years. It subtly instills the essence of traditional culture into people in a form that people like to hear and see, and plays an important role in educating the people. The facial makeup of Weng-style opera is an extension of the stage of opera art, and its various techniques have undergone a long evolution process. The works with different characteristics in different historical periods reflect the evolution of the decorative techniques of various elements of opera stage art, providing rich historical information for the study of the development of opera and even the changes in the social environment, and have high historical and cultural value. After watching opera, people will leave a long and beautiful memory by collecting an exquisite opera facial makeup. The facial makeup of Weng-style opera fully demonstrates the artistic beauty of opera and has high artistic value. (No pictures available, please provide them.) (No pictures available, please provide them.)