The Creation Of Poetic Imagery In Minimalist Garden Building

Garden building plays an indispensable part in the landscape,meeting the functional needs of different tourists for rest,sightseeing,gathering and so on.In the classical garden buildings,there is a great deal of full-blown construction theory and aesthetic taste,and embody rich national culture and spiritual connotation.Under the influence of development,modern garden buildings have been rapidly changed,which are inevitably commoditized and stylized,neglecting the inheritance of the true connotation.At the same time,with the improvement of lifestyle and concept,the users’ pay more attention to genius loci or spirit of place.Creating poetic imagery as the essence of Chinese classical gardens is a construction concept full of Chinese characteristics.Therefore,inheriting and innovating the space artistic conception will enhance the cultural and artistic value of garden buildings.That is important for the transformation of contemporary garden buildings.Minimalist art,as the last school of Western Modernism,is full of zeitgeist that has Caused widespread concern.The study is based on the minimalist design theory,aiming to combine minimalism with the traditional creating conception for exploring the intermingling of local culture and new ideas.Discussing the expression elements and creativetechniques of the minimalist garden building is in order to promote the artistic atmosphere and place spirit of modern garden buildings.The paper begins with the theory and cases about minimalism in order to analyze the advantage and weakness of minimalist design.Then,it gives an overview of the historical origins about poetic imagery in the view of philosophy,aesthetics,literature and gardening.After that,by constructing the expression level and the generation mechanism of poetic imagery,the relationship between “the creator — poetic imagery — the experiencer” in the process of creating and reading is reflected.Furthermore,it classify types of garden building and analyze the key point of expression elements from color,material,structure,surrounding and weather.By harmonizing the tone and proportion of color,processing the texture of material and combining with the construction methods,the details of the garden buildings are simplified and optimized.Defining the fields,guiding the surrounding landscape content of garden buildings in different distances to promote poetic imagery;Finally,the paper summarize the four methods of "foreshadowing","contrasting","extending" and " hiding" for creating the poetic imagery in minimalist garden building.Exploring the creation of poetic imagery with minimalist theory is a combine between modernity and tradition.On the one hand,it is of great benefit to Inherit traditional garden building culture and convey the poeticimagery,achieving the symbiosis between modern and traditional in a certain sense.On the other hand,creating the poetic imagery of garden building promotes to form the spiritual association,space-time consciousness and matter-to-self relationship,making spatial perception transform from the appearance to the connotation.It helps to enrich people’s spiritual culture activities,enhance aesthetic pleasure.This is a development direction of modern garden building.