A Study On Comprehensive Art Language Of Flake Jade Of Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty was a great era of strong economic and cultural.As one of the carriers of the Han culture,the jade craft entered its own glorious period,and was a peak in the history of jade articles.It was not only a wide variety of topics,but also involved in all aspects of the Han Dynasty society.In this paper,a new concept “Flake jade of Han Dynasty” was put forward for finding a suitable entry point to unscramble the comprehensive artistic language of Han Dynasty jade articles.The “Flake jade of Han Dynasty” was the jade which is laminar,small and has strong sense of decoration.The Han Dynasty flake jade was good at capturing and characterization the momentary expression of animal or people.Intaglio lines,carve,embossing,silhouette,valuable were applied on the creation,which Combine the realistic and freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese.Mysterious style from pre-Han Dynasty was abandoned and the art of life interest expression was valued.The global symmetry and local asymmetric were faultlessly unified to be grave but not break lively.Graceful curve which express the vivid and flexible was used in decoration,the hard of straight line and the soft of curve complemented each other.Artistic language was one of the important means and medium works convey thoughts and feelings.Comprehensive art language of Han dynasty flake jade was mainly in the following three aspects: Firstly,the simple aesthetics.Flake jade was a blend of Confucianism,Buddhism,and Taoism culture connotation,which combined the man and nature,practice and art,representational and abstract,and showed a free and bold,elegant and easy style of art.Secondly,the rich variety of language tools.A variety of decorative and carving techniques were created to build up the most valuable tool library,the immortal thoughts and human reality,romantic and true were incisively and vividly expressed by the changeable combination.Thirdly,the personalized expression.Capturing and depicting of instant expression,the aesthetics of the unity of opposites of the appropriate balance and the application of “Han eight knife”and “gossamer hair carving ”techniques would be like a concise verse to show the glory of an era.