The development of stage lighting
At the beginning of the twentieth Century Swiss Scenographers A. and Apia British director, stage artist Gordon Grey has made the lighting art modeling, lighting requirements express visual sense of sculpture, music and stage space movement and rhythm. Practice has proved that it has opened up a vast world for lighting art. In the modernist performance, Futurism and expressionist performances are all very important to the role of stage lighting. Such as the use of flashing lights to create a turbulent stage atmosphere; in order to cut light instead of closing, the stage montage scene. 20s German director E. PISCATOR first on the stage in the use of film techniques. In 50s Czechoslovakia stage artist J. Svoboda has created a multi screen, multi level and multi angle projection technology and different light moulding technology, so as to enrich the stage lighting modeling language, to promote the further development of the art of light.
Chinese after the Song Dynasty, the stage had used artificial lighting, the "free development" in the Qing Dynasty Zhang Dai recorded, lights also began in the song dynasty. Liu Huiji used the lighting changes when he performed Tang Minghuang's tour of the moon. In the late Qing Dynasty, the palace and folk performances in "Lantern play". Guangxu ten years (1884) Ci Xi birthday, a show with a candle to 448 branches, and folk performances of "cowboy Girl" also used a lot of magpie lamp. After the 1911 Revolution, China theater generally use gas lamp or lamp lighting. From 1933, Shanghai staged the roar, china! From time to time, the Chinese stage began to set up a stage spotlight projection system. Since 1954, a number of theaters have been established in line with international standards, introducing and setting up China's own stage lighting series, which has developed China's unique art of slide show.
