In what ways do the shapes and decorations of the ancient bronzes of Shanxi inspire the shape of the figures?

These beautiful bronzes are not only realistically shaped, but also decorated with a multitude of motifs, including taotie motifs, kui dragons, phoenix and bird motifs, feather motifs, cloud motifs, and retracement motifs. These motifs make up the perfect shape of the vessel, making these bronze vessels look not only rich and gorgeous, delicate decorations, but also dignified, majestic and heavy.

The characteristics of these decorations are: First, a wide variety of decorations, both imitation of animals, nature, but also to create, abstract, a variety of decorations colorful. Secondly, the decoration is delicate and exquisite, these decorations are carved delicately, and consciously use the point line surface composition, has a strong sense of beauty of form. Third, the decoration is full of the circumference of the object, from the point of view of these types, most of the bronzes are decorated around the circumference of the object, the dense decoration is almost full of the entire circumference of the object, giving people a sense of fullness, dense. Fourth, the main pattern and the use of the base pattern, to a certain pattern of the main pattern, decorated around the base pattern, such a relationship with each other, so that the pattern has a primary and secondary, appears to be very hierarchical. For example, most of the taotie pattern or dragon pattern as the main pattern, to the cloud thunder pattern, back to the pattern, scale pattern, etc. as the background pattern.

First, these pictorial shapes let us appreciate the realistic modeling art, whether ??zun or boar zun, whether the elephant zun or goat zun, these animal shapes are lifelike, very vivid. Secondly, the perfect casting process, for these elephant-shaped shape, the difficulty of its molding is hundreds of times the ordinary shape, how to achieve both realistic image, but also has an elegant shape, is really a huge problem, which shows the wisdom and talent of our ancient working people. Thirdly, the bronze above the redundant and varied decorations, there are harsh and mysterious taotie pattern, there are smooth and elegant back to the cloud pattern, there are natural bionic feather pattern scale pattern, there are abstract and simple geometric pattern, these patterns clever combination of colorful for the vessel type, but also become an inseparable part of the vessel type.