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Explain the artistic characteristics of the colorful sculptures of Cave 45 of Mogao Grottoes, a store of seven bodies

Mogao Grottoes Cave 45 a store seven body color sculpture of the artistic characteristics are as follows:

1, is the original color sculpture of the Tang Dynasty, Mogao Grottoes Tang Dynasty color sculpture in the most regal masterpieces, with a higher level of art and unique research value.

2, in the Mogao Grottoes there are more than 2,000 ancient colorful sculptures, but unfortunately about 90% in the Qing Dynasty was remodeled, the artistic level is not high. And in the 45th cave, preserved the colorful sculpture of the sheng tang period, for more than 1000 years ago original tang dynasty works of art, the Buddha within a store seven body colorful sculpture is the most exquisite existing mogao caves of tang dynasty statues, modeling, vivid, godly, represents a very high aesthetic and sculpture techniques of the tang dynasty.

Mogao Grottoes, Cave 45 in the niche of a seven-body colorful sculpture of the artistic value is:

It is the original colorful sculpture of the Tang Dynasty, Mogao Grottoes Tang Dynasty colorful sculpture in the most exciting masterpiece, with a higher level of art and unique research value. In the Mogao Caves there are more than 2,000 ancient colored sculptures, but unfortunately about 90% of them were remodeled in the Qing Dynasty, and the artistic level is not high. And in the 45th cave, preserved the colorful sculpture of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, for more than 1000 years ago original Tang Dynasty works of art, the Buddha within a store seven body colorful sculpture is the most exquisite Tang Dynasty statues existing in the Mogao Caves, modeling vivid, godly, represents a very high aesthetic and sculpture techniques of the Tang Dynasty.

Dunhuang cave art to building, sculpture, mural three art forms as the main composition. Color sculpture is one of the main body of Dunhuang art. Mogao Grottoes colorful sculpture made of wood and bone clay sculpture process. The production process is: choose and Buddha pose similar to the branches of the tree processed into the main frame of the statue of Buddha, tied to the framework of the reed grass, grass outside the coarse mud, and then fine mud, pressure and wipe the light statue taking shape, and then on the white powder, and finally painted, so the name of the colored plastics.

Dunhuang color sculpture on the sixteen countries, by the Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, migratory birds, Western Xia, Yuan until the Qing Dynasty, after more than a thousand years, and now there are still color sculpture of 3342, of which 2,284 statues, 1,058 shadow sculpture. Mogao Grottoes color sculpture of the more, the long duration of the fine arts, in China and even in the world are rare.