Bulletin, Issue 35, Pages 129-140The Museum, 1963 - China |
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Page 132
... Shang period . The animal style of Late Shang was still dominated by primitive naturalism . It may be seen in every branch of art , pottery wares as well as stone , jade , bone and shell carvings . Pl . V.4 is a four - legged pottery ...
... Shang period . The animal style of Late Shang was still dominated by primitive naturalism . It may be seen in every branch of art , pottery wares as well as stone , jade , bone and shell carvings . Pl . V.4 is a four - legged pottery ...
Page 136
... artist was free to use his own imagination . It is impossible to identify these strange creations with any natural beings . The composite forms , especially those in bronze , were all ingenious ... art of the Shang period has so strongly 136.
... artist was free to use his own imagination . It is impossible to identify these strange creations with any natural beings . The composite forms , especially those in bronze , were all ingenious ... art of the Shang period has so strongly 136.
Page 137
The animal art of the Shang period has so strongly influenced the art of the later periods that the principles of ... artist had practised centuries earlier . All these natural objects became in time stylized or simplified into typeforms ...
The animal art of the Shang period has so strongly influenced the art of the later periods that the principles of ... artist had practised centuries earlier . All these natural objects became in time stylized or simplified into typeforms ...
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An-yang ancient China Andersson animal art animal designs Animal figures animal head animal style bird body bone bronze inscriptions centuries B.C. Ch'êng-tzu-yai ch'i tetrapod characters chin Chinese art cicada composite animal conventionalized Courtesy cover curved decorative design decorative patterns Decorative realism deer ears elab elephants eyebrows Freer Gallery Gallery of Art handle Honan Hong Kong horns Hou-chia-chuang human face human figure human head Hunan Hupei Incised animal mask inlay k'uei dragons Kansu Kiangsi kuang ewer kuei large number Late Shang legs Liang-ch'êng.chên Liaoning Lung-shan Ma-chia-yao Mizuno mouth Mu-fei collection neolithic nose oracle script Ordos bronzes Ostasiatiska p'an basin Painted human Plate pottery vessels primitive naturalism Private collection Pu-chao-chai rhinoceros Rostovtzeff Scythian Shang artist Shang China Shansi Shantung shape sheep Shih-chia-ho simplified animal forms Sir Ellis stylized T'ao-tieh masks technique tiger ting tripod tsun container type of animal various types wan bowl wên pien wood carving Yang-shao yu wine-can 許文