The Aesthetic Style Of Luo Yang Frescoes In Coffin Chamber Of Han Dynasty

Luo Yang frescoes in coffin chamber of Han Dynasty are a great artistic treasure in China, affecting the generation of China's painting art through their simple unsophisticated artistic style and proficient painting skill. Also they are representative of the painting development of Han Dynasty in Central Plains and hold an important status in Chine's aesthetic history. The painting tradition of Luo Yang frescoes originates from ancient totem belief, thoughts of the five elements of Yi and Yang and cultural custom of burial. These vivid and grotesque paintings have a vast reservoir of Han people's knowledge about world, nature and society and their eternal pursuit for life. Those thoughts and notion tell China's cultural mysterious style with painting forms, especially those in PU Qianqiu Chamber which brings our present time back to a fairy image, represents and reflects spirits of naturalism and romanticism of Han people's culture.Characterized by regional culture, the essay applies comprehensive research to studying the frescoes in coffin chamber and their aesthetic style and seeking relations between frescoes art and the Confucianists and Taoism and their aesthetic implicating, for the purpose of deep explanation to artistic connotation of Han people.The essay has 3 parts: The introduction systematically interprets Luo Yang frescoes' status, value and research situation and ways. In order to understand more correctly artistic creative activities of Han people, the essay's first chapter introduces their historical condition and in detail probes into the influence the Confucianistsand Taoism have on the frescoes. Based on unearthed material objects and relative historical articles, the author tries to show their historical original pictures and thoughts with historical materialism and dialectical material. The second chapter focuses on the origin of art totem and its aestheticai connotation, and the third one studies spiritual situation, aestheticai pursuit and social scenes in Han people.The postscript concludes the above argument and goes further into artistic achievement of Luo Yang frescoes.