Mask as a Basic Make uo Element in Creating Antique Actor Stage Images
The author of the article reveals the characteristic features of the characters of the ancient mask, determines the structure and the specifics of the visual means. Masks, which are created to embody a stage image, are considered as an artistic element of pictorial and plastic makeup. The author conducts a visual analysis of ancient disguises, determining their probability of practical use in stage makeup. The study of the frame structure, dimensions and images of masks allows us to identify their belonging to the theatrical art, or to attribute them to decorative elements of the exterior and interior. The materials for making masks are analyzed for the probability of their use in the makeup design and of actors’ wearing them. Examining directly the images of the images themselves of the early period (V century BC), a primitive external method of transmitting an artistic image is revealed. Personalized types of masks gradually (since the IV century BC) disappear from the theater stage due to the change in the repertoire of performances. The actors’ plastic makeup depicts the popular heroes of the New Romantic comedy and realistic characters. As a result of the analysis of the theatrical antique mask, the evolutionary progress in the image of disguises from character typing to the individualization of the type is established. The research was carried out on the basis of literary and visual sources of Antiquity.