| Academically called "portrait brick" especially refers to a type of bricks with figures burnt to be shaped inside brickkiln, after wet mud prints the figures on a box-like matrix from carved boards, or wet mud is pressed directly with figures, which is named"mold printing portrait brick".In Han Dynasty , NanYang was a major center of polities, econony, culture and art, and famous smelting base in antient China as well. The development of iron-smelting industry provided the assurance of tools for mold-carving of portraint brick of Han Dynasty. These improve the combination of design and actual application, also make figure-designing on these bricks more independent and perfect functions of figure-designing . Mold -printing portrait bricks is a recreature of art, reveals indirectness of art-designing. The prosperous social and cultural activities also supply unexhausted material to creation of mold printing portrait birck in Han Dynasty.The surface of mold-printing portrait brick in NanYang is big, the rich contents and abundant figures expressed on each surface of a brick from an integral relievo, compose visually high relievo, which embody perfectly whole relievo.These bricks make use of unique art-designing language, that arrangement of portrait bricks in grave make bricks meet the general request of construction structure and accord to the arrangement order in bury culture to reach the ideal result of "alive even dead".At the same time, these bricks remain sense of plot and description designing principles by continuously reappearing figures and free arrangement, and construct mystery atmosphere the bricks expore a new way on technics and designing of mold-printing, and unique dissociatire perspective language. In conclusion, mold-printing figures' of Han Dynasty in NanYang make people the center, moistening art-designing with culture, change complicated design language into simple one. They become brand-new milestone of art-designing in antient China.
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