Modern Lingnan Architectural Decoration Research

Lingnan traditional humanities can be attributed to the spirit of openness and tolerance,innovation, open-minded, pragmatic and statecraft several characteristics. Thesecharacteristics are also portrayal of modern the Lingnan architectural decoration overall.According to the owner of buildings, the Modern Lingnan architectural decoration is dividedinto the three categories——colonial architectural decoration, vernacular buildings decoration,official buildings decoration. The paper tries to study characteristics respectively.Firstly, the chapter of Colorful colonial architectural decoration studies of colonialarchitectural decoration by means of Western culture passive input. Through foreign tradeexchanges and colonial cultural input, Lingnan aggregates earliest modern churches andcolonial-style buildings affected by the architectural decorative arts in many Westerncountries, and characterized by all kind of styles. In terms of artistic level, the colonialarchitectural style is the portrayal of the Western sovereign state art style, embodying theinternational characteristics; In terms of technical level, the furnishing materials of colonialbuilding generally pragmatically using Lingnan local materials shows strong localization.Secondly, the chapter of Guben novelty studies Lingnan folk architectural decorationthroughout the modern period. Modern Lingnan vernacular architectural decorations stilladhere to the traditional decorative arts practices in the social context of artisanal decorationof the building and the integration of traditional arts and crafts, but at the same time take theinitiative to absorb Western architectural decorative arts. Folk architectural decorations stickto the traditional skills on the one hand, but boldly innovate on the other hand. Folkarchitectural decorations produce new forms, new materials and processes to adapt to localculture, natural conditions, and aesthetics. Both artistic level and technical level show distinctregional characteristics.Thirdly, the chapter of pluralism of official building decoration studies decoration ofLingnan official buildings during period of the Repulic of China. Official buildings featuredby the diverse decorative motives, decorative style, aesthetic expression and decorationtechnology show the national character of the theme. In terms of artistic level, diverse style arise including Western church advocating of Chinese form, the official governmentadvocating "Chinese the inherent style", neoclassical, Art Deco and Modernism coexistence;In terms of technical level, building decoration materials and technology progressivelyimplement modernization and localization.On the basis of the above three parts, the final chapter6summarizes the evolutioncharacteristics of Modern Lingnan architectural decoration, to discuss the interactive effect ofthree parts——the colonial architectural decoration, the vernacular architectural decorationand the official architectural decoration, to reveal the law of evolution, to summarizecharacteristics of Modern Lingnan architectural decoration as internationalism, regionalismand nationalism. Finally, the paper takes a long view of the future development of the Lingnanarchitectural decoration in the context of globalization.