Abstract:
Facial makeup is a makeup styling art used in performance on the stage peculiar to Chinese drama. This form of art has abundant individual aesthetic features and constructive bases. The art of facial makeup is aesthetically characteristic of decorativeness, exaggerative formal beauty, expressiveness, conclusiveness, lifelike personified beauty, symbolization and allegoric implicative beauty. The beauty of facial makeup bases its invention and construction on abundant and realistic multiple appreciation of beauty. Generally speaking, artistic innovation originates from realistic social life, develops with varieties of artistic elements, and nurtures its soul in aesthetic of Chinese philosophy. All these factors work together to contribute the primary reservoir and resources of inventing, constructing and realizing the aesthetic construct of facial makeup in Chinese drama.
