당삼채 진묘수(镇墓兽) 도용(陶俑) 연구

Abstract

This paper takes the Tang tri-colored ceramic tomb guarding beasts as the object of study and makes a comprehensive analysis on the sculpture characteristics. The Tang tri-colored ceramic tomb guarding beasts is a sculpture buried in the tombs of the aristocrats of the Tang Dynasty. It is made with Kaolin as raw material, also with molds and hand building. The surface is covered with three-color glaze, with bisque firing of 1000 ° c and glaze firing of glaze of800 ° c. The human face tomb guarding beasts and the beast face tomb guarding beasts usually appear together in the tomb. With its terrible shapes and gorgeous glaze, Tang tri-colored ceramic tomb guarding beasts is a very peculiar category in the history of Chinese sculpture. Tang tri-colored ceramic tomb guarding beasts came in the middle of the7th century to the 8th century, this short half of century was a heyday of the period in political, economic, military and cultural aspects in Tang Dynasty. The economic development, international cultural exchange, break through the aesthetic paradigm in the central plains, kiln technology development is the background of Tang tricolor tomb guarding beasts. Tang tri-colored ceramic tomb guarding beasts were found in the two capitals of the Tang Dynasty: Xi 'an in Shanxi Province and Luoyang in Henan Province. However, those ceramic beasts disappeared with the felt of the Tang empire for more than a thousand years before being rediscovered in the early 20th century. Tang tri-colored ceramic tomb guarding beasts can be classified as animal sculpture with two forms, one is ceramic tomb guarding beasts with human face, i.e. the combination of human face and animal body; the other is ceramic tomb guarding beasts with animal face, i.e. the combination of lion head and animal body. Tang tri-colored ceramic tomb guarding beasts are not real animals, but imaginary ones. Each part of its body is composed of different beasts, include antlers, lion head, lion body, eagle wings, horseshoe and eagle claws. Sculptors combined the most aggressive parts of the beast with the angry facial expressions of the barbarians to form the patron saint of the underworld. This paper will analyze the sculpture characteristics and functions of each part of the Tang tri-colored ceramic tomb guarding beasts, and from the perspective of sculpture techniques, analyze why the craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty should make terrible modeling, and how to choose the modeling to further demonstrate the cultural value of the ceramic tomb guarding beasts in the Tang Dynasty.