Foreign Painting - Peking Opera Face Paints

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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The "Foreign Pictures" series of albums collects nearly 10,000 exquisite "foreign pictures" collected by Mr. Liu Yunlu, a folk collector, over generations. The content covers a wide range of topics such as politics, economy, ethics, folklore, opera, literature, sports, entertainment, landscapes, plants, and animals. It is a comprehensive encyclopedia that vividly depicts early 20th-century China. "Foreign pictures" are invaluable references for scholars and experts engaged in folk studies, history, and cultural history, as well as for artists working in theater, film, fine arts, and literature.
Mask patterns are the standardized facial makeup designs for zhuang (strong character) actors in opera, embodying a personalized and stylized art. The zhuang role is also known as a flower face or flower mask. Through patterns on the forehead, eyebrows, eye sockets, nose, cheeks, and mouth, the masks reveal the personality of the character, as well as their age, status, temperament, fate, and experiences. The strokes and colors of the patterns carry different meanings. The comprehensive display of "foreign pictures" will be highly beneficial as a reference for people to reassess this unique phenomenon in the history of Chinese tobacco, study Chinese tobacco culture, explore the development of Chinese commercial art, and promote the growth of modern Chinese commercial art and advertising industries.