Wu Huifei Stone Coffin Outer Wall Screens Flowers And Birds Art Features Of

The outside wall of Stone Coffin of Wuhuifei is inscribed with fourteen screens of flower and bird painting (twelve screens in this text). Their form system and fineness are higher than the contemporaneous tombs. According to textual research of experts the screen type flower and bird painting is popular from Prosperous Tang to Late Tang which has root influence of flower and bird painting later on the aspect of theme content, composition form and line feature. I will compare the screen type flower and bird painting of Tang tombs which had been found to analyzes the art feature of the screen type flower and bird painting of Tang tombs which had been found in this text. The main aspects of analysis are as followings:1. Theme content. The theme content of screen painting of flower and bird of Wuhuifei is very abundant. The author describes various kinds of the mandarin duck, parrot, peony, butterfly, hoopoe, wild flower and grass and stone realistically. Comparing to the painting contemporaneous it can infer the popular level of some theme at that time.2. Composition form. The single screen of flower and bird paintings of stone coffin of Wuhuifei is expressed stylization feature on composition. The theme of twelve screens is different, but the composition is exactly the same. All the main subject bird and large plant are on the middle line and other subjects is on the edge up and down or in the interspaces. The whole screen is middle line symmetry. Comparing the screen type flower and bird painting of Tang tombs which had been found we can find a lot of generality.3. Line feature. By line drawing of the screen type flower and bird painting of Tang tombs which had been found reappear we can search the linear feature in the text. The line is symmetry, thin power and fluency, tactful expression. The paintings are full of vitality. From this we can find that the line carving technology of Tang people is very skillful before millennium years.4. The Esthetic idea. The hedonism is gradually popular from Prosperous Tang in which the material life is more abundant. The painting theme is also changed to Esthetic Contemplation of realism of common customs from theme of enlightenment education. The realistic painting of flower and bird outside wall of Stone Coffin of Wuhuifei is expressed the esthetic feature of emphasizing true-life of Tang people. The form system of multiple screens combined and theme of flower, bird and countryside expressed the esthetic tendency of loving magnificent beauty and pursuing freedom of Tang people. The screen style of two in pair and the doubled and coupled subject in painting permeate the antithesis esthetic mind of the ancients; the choosing theme of auspicious sign is also containing the good blessing to tomb master.