Chen, who lives in Workers' Village in Zhengzhou, is in his forties this year. Although she left the stage early for physical reasons, her love for Henan Opera and her pursuit of drama art never stopped. She has been performing on the stage since she was eight years old. Decades of ups and downs, ups and downs, cultivated her bold, enthusiastic and generous personality, and also let her survive in the predicament. She often plays the role of Dan Jiao in plays, but Jing Jiao's typical characteristics, such as strong-willed, straightforward and brave, make her envious. When she was studying in drama school, she often found a clean actor to learn singing and makeup. Growing up in an orphanage, her education level is not high, but this did not stop her from studying. She often secretly records the makeup of Henan opera with dots, circles, knives, skimming and pressing as marks. Every school holiday, she does experiments on her face, imitating the way teachers and classmates make faces. Over time, the facial features of various characters such as red and white faces and painted faces are firmly in mind. At one time, she changed to sing the pure corner, which made her wish come true for many years.
After she stepped off the stage of drama, many people often asked makeup artist about her facial makeup, and some people were anxious about not finding makeup materials for the facial makeup of Henan Opera. She listened with sorrow and frown, and the idea of leaving practical experience to future generations moved her. She doesn't stick to the traditional method of drawing facial makeup on paper, but wants to draw facial makeup with intuitive, three-dimensional and multifunctional things, giving people artistic enjoyment from multiple angles and directions. At first, inspired by Tianjin clay figurine Zhang, she wanted to make a face out of clay. However, because the soil is rough and difficult to color, it is difficult to show the delicate characteristics of facial makeup. She tried many times and gave up this method. Later, she switched to foam, but it lacked toughness. Cotton wool, but the cost of cotton wool is too high. Finally, she thought of using paper as raw material.
Before making facial makeup, Chen soaked the paper into pulp, and then added foam, silk, hemp, cotton and other items. After repeated beating and kneading, the pulp becomes a hard and tough paper mud. She put the paper mud on a small tray and kneaded it into different forms of Henan opera characters' faces by hand. After air-drying for two days, people can judge which drama he is according to the pattern and spectral color of his face.
Chen's paper sculpture works not only show the facial makeup art of Henan Opera, but also introduce the makeup characteristics of Henan Opera facial makeup, and achieve a completely different decorative effect from other objects. This paper-plastic facial mask is light, resistant to beating, easy to carry and easy to preserve, so it is deeply loved by folk art experts and opera lovers.
The facial makeup created by Chen has its own characteristics. First of all, the facial color contrast is strong, and the pattern is delicate and neat. Decades of actress life has made her very familiar with the faces of makeup artists and characters. On the face made of paper, she learned the makeup methods of stage actors. Every stroke, every stroke, every circle and every group is meticulous, with clear color outline and natural transition. Moreover, because she has performed hundreds of Henan opera tracks and is very familiar with the identity, status and personality of the characters in the play, the facial makeup she created is not unique, but has its own characteristics. It is clear at a glance whether it is brave and honest or treacherous. A smile is vivid and vivid. She can draw characters' personality characteristics on Facebook, such as two, three or even four small faces between eyebrows and cheeks, to show the bumpy fate, joys and sorrows of a character's life. In the same role, she uses different paper and makeup methods to show the different roles played by different characters in different plays through the changes of eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth. Just like the mask of the god of wealth, when people see his crooked eyebrows, slightly parted lips and round copper patterns on his face, they will immediately think of his greedy personality. Bao Gong's reddish-brown cheeks and clear crescent lines on his forehead reflect his honest character and his ability to accurately judge the yin and yang of things.
With agarwood as the center, the crescent axe is an important weapon to save the mother, so Chen drew a sharp crescent axe on agarwood's face, and the blade of the axe hung high on her forehead. Axe handle down the bridge of the nose. When people see this face, they can not only understand the eagerness and anger of Aquilaria sinensis to save their mother, but also understand the general plot of the whole play from the design of crescent axe. Therefore, Chen's facial makeup has outstanding characteristics, both fixed procedures of ordinary facial makeup and changeable ones. All this benefits from her rich artistic practice and constant pursuit of drama art.
At present, Chen has produced hundreds of faces in dozens of Henan opera tracks, such as Xiachenzhou, Jiaohuogun, Qin Qiong Rescue, Nanyang Pass, and Hu Fu Long Jiang. Paper and plastic masks vary in size, from washbasins to coins. Her masterpieces are also on the pen holder and peach pit. The series of facial makeup she envisioned is coming out soon, and her new facial makeup is also in the pipeline. Whenever inspiration comes, whether it is day or night, she will immediately Facebook the images that are active in her mind. Like a mother snail, she created characters, created art and brought people wonderful spiritual enjoyment.