From Text To Image: Research On The Visual Communication Of Jian'an Prints

The coexistence of text and images is an important proposition of Chinese art history.The filial piety map,a column chart among the portrait stone of the Han Dynasty,the scrolls story painting,the grotto temple Buddhist painting of the Northern and Southern dynasties are image works that draw materials from the classic texts.The folk novels of "Goulan,Wasi" in Song and Yuan Dynasties had their heyday in that time.The engraved Jian'an print "Five Kinds of Popular Stories" in Yuan Dynasty is also a typical model and example of the conversion from text to images.Text is a language system,while the image is a visible visual system.The mutual penetration and conversion between the two systems involves a lot of image propositions.The correspondence between the text and the images presented by the print "Five Kinds of Popular Stories" is a product under the backgroundof the Song and Yuan dynasties.The rise of the epigraphy of the Song dynasty and the collection of antiquities,the popularity of folk secular literature and engraving printing had a contribution to the complex relationship between text and images.The story scenes,buildings,character clothing,home furnishings,courtyard layout and other images of the Qin and Han Dynasties that appeared in "Five Kinds of Popular Stories" were only seen by a group of antiquities collectors in Song and Yuan Dynasties.Epigraphy is an extremely difficult and profound knowledge which belong to the ivory tower,monopolized by the highly knowledgeable class,yet for general public this knowledge was far beyond them.Print text can be directly extracted from or refer to the prevailing history books,while the print images,which cannot be drawn from the epigraph works,can only be taken from the scenes in reality,so it can explain the fact that the images and text are contradictory in "Five Kinds of Popular Stories",which means that "Five Kinds of Popular Stories" created by the craftsmen in Yuan Dynasty,is based on the literati 's home life background in Song and Yuan Dynasties to interpret and performance the historical story of the Warring States period,the Qin and Han Dynasties by the Yuan Dynasty carved craftsmen.