The Study Of Art Features Of Buddhist Statues Of Northern Qi Dynasty In Jinyang

As one of the most ancient art forms, sculpture has its peculiarity----directness, that is,expressing humans’ emotions and spirits directly. Compared with two-dimensional paintings,sculpture is dimensional, actual and materialized which is similar to real world. Sculpture is alsothe entity with which humans know the world and express thoughts and emotions. World isdimensional, therefore, sculpture can be regarded as means for humans know the world. As areligion to express humans’ emotions and consciousness-----Buddhism advocates “using imageto advocate religion”, that is, advocating the spirit of Buddhism with sculpture. After Buddhismentered Central Plains from India, the sculpture of Buddha formed its unique features bycombining local features. Especially after Northern Wei Emperor Xiaowen, Chinese earlysculpture had great changes in the aspects of style and appreciation which had had great effect onappreciation trend, posture style and expressing techniques. After Northern Wei, Eastern Wei andNorthern Qi dynasty was the area when Chinese Buddha sculpture had reached an unparalleledlevel which was an significant transition in history.In Jinyang area, Buddhism was advocated by all social classes because of its political andmartial position and tumultuous state affairs. Therefore, Buddhist statues had developed a lot.Jinyang Buddhism statues are various including Buddhist caves with large cliff maitreya and themonomer statues, small niches, and so on. No matter what role in religion, the Buddhist imagesthrough their height in the overall shape, square with a round face, quietly elegant, elegant dress,can observe to its internal vitality, incisively and vividly show the beauty of Buddhist statues.Their feeling is quiet, natural and implicative and has a close and friendly feeling, also has thedetachment of embellish clean.The formation of the artistic features and Northern Qi Jinyang area Buddhism images werenot only influenced by Indian Buddhism sculpture style, nut also has a common effect of cultureand art of the northern and southern dynasties, the spirit of Chinese traditional culture.