Research On The Design Of Hunan Stone Gateway And Decoration

Hunan memorial arch is an important part of Hunan stone carving. By the chance of field survey for Hunan Stone Carving which is one of Hunan Series which is focal point of the Eleventh Five Years of Hunan provincial government, increased my knowledge of Hunan ancient stone carving memorial arch's artistic charm and cultural connotation bodily. The article is start at concise of development course of memorial arch, then switch to the function and qualitative classification of Hunan stone carving memorial arch after narrative it's principles of classification and methods. The second emphasis of the article is elaborates the decorative design traits of Hunan stone carving memorial arch. After introduced the main components of stone carving memorial arch, the article summarized its decorative subject matters from good fortune, official career, long life, happiness and wealth five aspects. And link to concrete instances to explain decorative means of expression of Hunan stone carving memorial arch from light engraving, relief sculpture, full relief and openwork carving four respects. The last section introduced two typical cases of Hunan stone carving memorial arch in detail and here by summed up design imply and cultural connotation of Hunan stone carving memorial arch and its decorative art.