Chinese Peking Opera facial makeup

Author: Liu Yue Mei
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: Chinese Peking Opera face paintings are a special pattern of facial makeup for Peking Opera actors. They create numerous artistic figures with distinct personalities and varied expressions through exquisite composition, vibrant colors, delicate lines, and techniques like painting, scraping, and smudging. The flower faces in Peking Opera face paintings, with their colorful hues and diverse compositions, reveal distinctions between nobility and humility, beauty and ugliness, virtue and evil, loyalty and treachery. They carry profound praise or condemnation, contrasting with the plain and elegant makeup of the main characters, thereby producing a strong dramatic aesthetic effect. The face paintings of Sheng, Dan, Jing, and Chou are richly varied, offering an inexhaustible artistic delight.