The Narrative Characteristics and Current Inspiration of Illustrations in the Enlightened Mandarin Textbook
Aesthetics master Feng Zikai integrated children's lives and aesthetic characteristics,and created nearly 400 illustrations for the Republic of China's Mandarin textbook Enlightened Mandarin Textbook.The illus-trations presented narrative characteristics in terms of layout,aesthetics,structure,intention,and artistic conception:illustration representations conformed to children's perceptions;painting techniques highlighted the dynamic sense of beauty;name subjects depicted children's lives;dynamic plots released textual concepts;and graphic narratives resounded with the"sound outside the picture".Looking back at The illustrations in the Enlightened Mandarin Text-book can provide inspiration for the construction of illustrations in the current unified primary school Chinese lan-guage textbooks:grasping the cognitive laws of children and optimizing the spatial layout of illustrations;based on children's life experiences,depicting the illustrations that are authentic and interesting;emphasizing illustration rep-resentation design and expanding children's aesthetic context;reasonably coordinating the relationship between il-lustrations and texts,activating children's imagination space.
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