Research On The Form And Characteristics Of Jingdezhen Kneadingmodels In Song Dynasty

Song dynasty is an era with Yuyu Hu Bunya. Taking article as nobility, from theupper level to the basic one, a culture social group comes into being, and the wholeattainment of this group is without parallel before or since. Celadon pottery is arepresentative works in the important period when china was transited to be porcelain,and since Qin and Han dynasties, there have appeared many kneading sculptures or quartpots taking kneading sculptures as their subsidiary manifestation. Especially thosekneading sculptures on the religious quart pots, they have symbolic meanings and can becorresponded to simple sculpture spirit that setting sculptures is for conveying exactideas.Engendered in Song dynasty, the kneading sculpture works of bluish white porcelainare natural and simple, they express splendid era culture connotation with plain andartistic technique, and at the same time, they have distinctive modeling characteristicswith strong releasing "mud nature". There are a large of featured sculpture essays,auxiliary vessels’ kneading sculptures and religious subjected figure statues in bluishwhite porcelains, and they have went through many changes and improvements on thebasis of predecessors. In terms of form, kneading sculptures of green white porcelain aremore flexible and vivid, they pursue resemblance by using ceramics’ mud nature, andthen get rid of too much red tape carve, they achieve the purpose of" lifelikenessportraiture" with "well-thought-out" art grasp and "free-wheeling" creation technique.Man is an emotional animal, and the emotional changes will affect the expression ofworks. Many kneading models of bluish white porcelain themself are not the main bluishwhite porcelain art works, their manufacture is no fixed in a random order, and many ofthem were made freely by porcelain making workers of that time. These works weremixed with authors’ real feelings, and these feelings express the theme of "image"through the thinking method of "meaning". And it is exactly where the kneadingsculptures of bluish white porcelain are precious, they express the images in life withstrong ductile mud through workers’ inner emotional activities, then getting a"portraiture" by deepening "meaning", in order to achieve the purpose of "lifelikeness".Jingdezhen kiln is the most famous kilneye among bluish white porcelains of Songdynasty, its bluish white porcelain art works, no matter in quality or style, perfectlyexpress aesthetic spirit and culture ideas of the people in Song dynasty, and the art workscan be called the most representative works of Song dynasty’s ceramic sculptures, fortheir advocating meaning with people in that dynasty.