This "History of Chinese Art" is very popular, and a volume in hand can go out to pretend to be a cultural artist. I am also a small design, and the works that have improved my artistic attainment are all favorites, a book conveys such a rich art world, and the things expressed are so interesting, it is really not much. Therefore, flipping through the "History of Chinese Art in Big Talk" is a good artistic edification.
The author is a well-known Yi Gongzi, my cultural god, an artistic superman, and I especially want to get to know him.
If Western art is a scribbler of sentences, then what is Chinese art like? Yi Gongzi replied: Chinese art history is the most familiar stranger. I went to a museum a while ago, and when I was faced with so many historical artifacts and works of art, I could only admire the window of the gold and silver jewelry. Those heavy tombs unearthed bronze mirrors, ancient swords, ancient jade pieces, ancient bottles... I don't understand it. Now with this "History of Chinese Art", I have a little understanding of the doorway. When I visit the museum later, I can appreciate some of the beauty of the depth.
The sun god bird on the bronze god tree of Sanxingdui is so beautiful that people tremble with beauty. The use of both shape and god, the use of lines and hollows, coupled with the flexible shape, the divine beauty of the ancients has long been so anti-heavenly, such a great work of art really do not know how to make it. The bronze tree that is so tall seems to be called the Fuso Tree, and the nine sun god birds on the tree should symbolize the 9 suns, which are recorded in cultural legends. And now looking at such a large bronze sacred tree, so complex craftsmanship, it is breathtaking. It is said that a total of 8 bronze god pairs have been excavated from the Sanxingdui site, which are nearly 4 meters high. It's just that they were broken when they were unearthed, the restoration work was huge, and we saw the most complete restoration, and the other seven did not know when they would see the light of day. And that very strangely shaped bronze standing man, because the head resembles an alien, is still a mystery.
The T-shaped painting unearthed in Changsha Mawangdui is the largest painting. With a painting, the panorama shows the process and path of ascension of the dead soul.
This painting is divided into three layers of space from top to top: underground, earthly and heavenly, and the content of the performance is extremely complex. The underground hades symbolize the sheep-horned monster, the big fish on the seabed intertwined with whales, the water god overseer the red snake, and the giant water god Yujiang, who lifted the earth with his arms, holding up a whiteboard symbolizing the earth. Two large turtles mouthed Lingzhi, offered the elixir of immortality, and then presented a scene of re-sacrifice: ritual utensils such as bells, dings, and pots were displayed, and the remains of the tomb owner were covered with silk fabrics in the middle, and seven people bowed their hands in silence and prayed. Symbolizes life The spring god is blessed by the tomb owner, and the sacrificial musical instrument under the multicolored feather tent is specially chime. The human world on the earth, first of all, is the double dragon wearing bibi, dividing the human world into one or two parts, and at the same time implying that the soul ascends to heaven. The leopard guarding the path of ascension, the ascension pedal, the tomb owner's old woman Xin Chai and the maid, two celestial emissaries kneel to greet the deceased's soul-summoning bird Fei Lian, and the bird canopy symbolizes the heavenly canopy, indicating that the road to ascension is about to open. The hostess is even more honorable and abnormal, the dragon protects each other left and right, and the spirit bird flies in the air to guard each other. And ascend to heaven, there are more complex elements on display. The scene of the Celestial Realm is depicted in great detail: the Heavenly Gate has two Guardian Spirit Leopards, and then the Celestial Gatekeeper God Emperor. The two monsters pull the rope to vibrate to indicate the sound of ascension to heaven, indicating the beginning of the long heavenly journey. The crane symbolizes immortality, the mighty flying dragon, the sun in the middle of the sun, the nine suns and the Fuso pair, the moon and the jade rabbit, and the toad with the goddess of the moon and the mouth of the lingzhi. The imagination of heaven has become very figurative and dreamy. It's unbelievable. The combination of space and image design depicts the rituals and paths to heaven, embodying the cosmology and life concept of the Han Dynasty. Since ancient times, there have been legends of the ascension of the soul to heaven, and the content displayed in the painting is full of natural atmosphere, mysterious meaning and romantic color.
After reading 10,000 years of Chinese art history in one go, although there are still many works of art that cannot be understood, as a small design, it has already spied the vast realm and far-reaching influence of art.