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Gaocheng The Lanterns Artistic Characteristics Towards The Research

Posted on:2013-02-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330374461999Subject:Art of Design
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Palace lantern, as the lighting tool in the palace, also has the value of appreciation. Palace lantern art, collecting woodcarving craft, paint craftwork and paintings of art in an organic whole, has the double function of lighting and decoration.Diesel light, the cover skeleton, began in xia dynasty. In the spring and autumn period, Luban once used sticks as a scaffold to construct the palace. Diesel light, enclosed silks, was the prototype of the palace lanterns. During the warring states period, the species of lanterns with bronze as raw material such as the mixed silver lamp were very plentiful. There were splendid colorful lanterns in the palace in Qin dynasty. To the tang dynasty, the feudal society entered the heyday with high prosperity of economy and culture. Peoples'material and spiritual life was richer than before. Not only the lamps and lanterns with practical were produced in large quantity, but the palace lanterns with the double function of lighting and decoration were produced soon. Since then, China's ancient lamps and lighting fixtures developed along with the two strands parallel: practical lantern and palace lantern. The species of lighting fixtures in Ming and Qing dynasty was more abundant than those in Tang and Song dynasty. Palace lantern reached its peak. Ceramic lamp, metal lamps, glass lamp, woodiness candlestick lamp with beautiful model and wealthy adornment made the ancient China lamps enter into a new peak in the history. Now in Beijing the lamps in the imperial palace, yangxin temple, changchun palace and the Summer Palace kept most of the Ming dynasty palace lanterns for manufacturing. Qing dynasty palace NaWuFu made do place under the lamp library, which specializes in the production of palace lantern, lanterns repair, to Ming palace lantern, made similar modelling with modern palace lanterns.With the feudal china declines in the late Qing Dynasty, palace lanterns flowed into folklore. Which are still applied in many occasions, such as, tea house, restaurant, hotel and Ancient architecture scenic spots. Palace lanterns win a place as its usable lighting, luxuriant adornment patterns and colorful visual appreciation features in Chinese culture and customs. And also it is especially famous for its complicated fabrication technology and its modeling elegant design. The production of palace lanterns has a prosperous long history across the country, each have its characteristics from Gong palace lantern, Beijing palace lantern to Luoyang palace lantern, and Gaocheng palace lantern.This project is targeted at palace lanterns in Gaocheng, whose contents is focused on the types of palace lanterns in Qin dynasty and Gaocheng, and regard the artistic representation and the stylistic characteristics as the research points, in order to have a deep analysis of Gaocheng palace lanterns'artistry. The writer of this paper has got rich and firsthand materials by investigating Gaocheng in Hebei province and its surrounding areas. Besides, by reviewing the documents of Ancient lamps in our country and County annals in Gaocheng, the types and modeling of palace lanterns in Qin dynasty have got a better retrospection. A set of interviewing questions has been made up, and all kind of people have been interviewed professionally so that more powerful research basis is acquired.Through dividing the palace lantern into skeleton, lamp palace lantern lamp cap, adornment screen, engraving, spike drop to wait for a few parts, making craft, material, modelling, design, color for the carrier, according to the city's history, gaomai palace lanterns present situation, development reason, this topic draw gaomai palace lanterns city art form and development way to change. In-depth analysis of characteristic of art after the change of palace lanterns, we explored the development trend applying the city palace lantern lighting, gaomai aesthetic to the other areas.The innovation of this topic lies in that on the base of exhaustive information, this paper expounds the relationship between palace lantern of Gaocheng and that of Qing dynasty, classifies the types among its existing lanterns, compares their artistic characteristics and analyzes the formation reason, points out the shortcomings in its development, and finally obtain its development direction, and at the same time, it designs works, analyzes their strengths and weaknesses and gets corresponding conclusions for corresponding paper.
Keywords/Search Tags:Qing Dynasty palace lantern, the Gaocheng lanterns, art features, towardsinnovation
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