Stone Reliefs of the Han Tombs in Shandong Province: Relationship Between Motifs and Composition

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10.2991/icassee-19.2019.34How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Shandong; Han Dynasty; stone reliefs; composition; motif

Abstract

One of the important characteristics of the monumental relief art is the way of building a composition on a flat surface. In the stone reliefs of the Han Dynasty the dominant principle is a plastic-planar pictorial one (Moshkov, Kuznetsov 1994). Distribution of masses and location of the main lines of the image create visual effects that express the content of the depicted scenes. Systematization of the available data regarding the principles of composition, as well as identifying the relationship between composition and motifs allows to prove that certain methods of constructing composition correspond to certain motifs reflecting various aspects of the life of those buried, and religious ideas. The most vivid example of this is the composition of reliefs incorporating the motifs of hunting, war, travel, etc. This observation provides the basis for the subsequent identification of the features of the Shandong school of monumental art of the Han era.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Zhicheng Bi
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TI  - Stone Reliefs of the Han Tombs in Shandong Province: Relationship Between Motifs and Composition
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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