Nanyang Han Spatial Representations

Relief stone sculpture in Han Dynasty is the greatest art and today more and more researchers give attention to it's artistic expression of course including it's spatial expression.This paper has Han Dynasty relief stone sculpture tombs in Nanyang as the main subject investigated and based on albums of relief stone sculpture in the Han Dynasty and the published reports about excavation,fully references related researched results from the former scholars,finally trys to summarize the basic rules of space expression about Nanyang's relief stone sculptures in the Han Dynasty. Firstly,this paper divides it into mixed images and single images,and then divides the mixed images into three spatial forms:relation about left and right,relation about Up and down and relation about overlapping.The same divided the single images into two different angles:1/2 front elevation and 3/4 side elevation. Another important content of this paper is analysis spatial perspective about relief stone sculpture in Nanyang.As the expression obout space in Nanyang's relief stone sculpture is also focus on the spatial relation about left and right,Up and down,overlapping and apparent angle, so in this paper, on the basis of identifying relations about spatial expression, classifies the perspective to movable perspective and focused perspective,and then summarizes the Special Characteristics of spatial perspective in Nanyang.