The Aesthetic Value of Ritual Bronze Sculpture Statue
From the aesthetic perspective to observe the chinese bronze sculpture statue, the deepest impression is their dignified and graceful exterior style made of straight lines and curves. For example, the ding(鼎) and gu(觚) (wine bronze sculpture) typically represents the mixed, modest and masculine and pretty and elegant, feminine beauty. Furthermore are the beautiful and overelaborate decorations on the bronze sculpture statue. These rigorous and beautiful patterns are mainly based on zoomorphic patterns like taotie(饕餮) and kui(夔) integrated into the concept of the dragon as well as the phoenix evolved from the bird. These two images have finally developed into the conceptual representative of Chinese totem of dragons and phoenixes. Through the forms of beauty, the totem is metaphor for the emperors of Shang and Zhou who would move along the trend, or the philosophy of managing state affairs and making the country prosperous.
After the human beings outshine other creatures in the world, human and nature, through a clear awareness, has a further understanding and distinction. Natural or man-made disaster and frustration have a critical influence on the survival of tribes and social development. Given the limitation of their knowledge of the outside world and the ability to resist the reality, no wonder they had awe and fear toward the nature. Begging for protection from the gods and spirits and pleasing them to control objects delivers the ancients’ wish and ideal. These are the reasons that why the ritual china bronze sculptures are in full flourish at that time.
Those ritual china bronze sculpture of utmost aesthetic value are solemn and stable in outside shape, exquisite and rich in decoration on the aspect of pattern design. And the content of the design is mysterious, solemn and even terrible. All these have composed a mysterious atmosphere, embodying mental feature of heavy, constrain and enthusiastic sense. The arts of slavery society and religion are tied in a hundred and one ways, so the beauty it displayed is sort of ferocious pretty. Even though this beauty is made for deities and spirits, but its progress and existence have already conveyed the wisdom, confidence and ability of human to dominate the objects.
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