Yuan And Ming Arts And Crafts Style Rheology

This research attempts to explore the development of artistic style of arts and crafts from Yuan Dynasty to the end of Ming Dynasty. The pattern, color and shape of craftwork are main objects which will be analysed. In addition to other craftwork, Blue and White Porcelain, lacquer ware and furniture of Ming style are selected as representative examples of this period on the basis of their typicality, influence and continuation. With the help of comparative method, Iconology and Duplicate Evidence (literature and antique) Theory, how artistic style in different period is inherited and as well transformed along with the reason will be discussed.The dissertation develops in terms of three phases: Yuan Dynasty, early and medium-term Ming Dynasty, and late Ming Dynasty. Illustrated with Blue and White Porcelain, lacquer ware and so on, the artistic style of Yuan Dynasty is diverse and heterogeneous. Contemporaneously there are exoticism brought by exotic, continuation of Song artistic style as well as new product and style syncretizing different cultures. Given Blue and White Porcelain as the main clue to arts and crafts of early and medium-term Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, the accomplishment of Yuan is almost totally inherited. On the other hand, the traditional decorated style of Tang and Song Dynasty is furbished up consciously. Influenced by complex background, artistic style of this period develops gradually from orderly and cautious formality to straight and exoteric secularity. During late Ming Dynasty, due to active influence and participation of intelligentsia, taste of intellectuals on arts and crafts is established and comes into fashion. Taken example for Blue and White Porcelain and Ming-style furniture, the artistic style of late Ming is in pursuit of pithiness, naturalness, lyricism and classic elegance. This is a renaissance to the style of Song Dynasty. To draw a conclusion, the development of artistic style of arts and crafts from Yuan to the end of Ming Dynasty is a labyrinthian and far-going course which shows how artistic style in Yuan breaks away from the style of Song, how Yuan style is combined with resuscitation of traditional decorated style in early and medium-term Ming, and how Song style revives during late Ming Dynasty. Meanwhile, this research also pays attention to exploring the reason and background causing these changes.