浅谈商周青铜器的幻想纹饰——以商周青铜器幻想动物纹为例

作为商周文化重要载体的青铜器,其幻想动物纹通常分为兽面纹、夔龙纹、神鸟纹三大类,它们流行的时间及特点各不相同。商周青铜器幻想动物纹的审美特征主要表现为狰狞恐怖之美和朴素流畅之美。此外,商周青铜器幻想动物纹还蕴含着十分丰富的文化内涵,即商周先民对上帝、祖先神、自然神的崇拜;商周统治阶级意志的体现;艺术上的形式美。

Discussion of Fantastic Sculpture on the Bronze in Shang and Zhou Period: Taking the Fantastic Animals' Sculpture in Shang and Zhou Period as Example

Bronze is the important carrier of culture of Shang and Zhou period,whose Fantastic Animals’ Sculpture usually includes beast-face sculpture,dragon sculpture and mystical birds sculpture.Their fashionable time and traits are different.The features of fantastic animals’ sculpture on Shang-zhou bronze about appreciation of the beauty mainly focused on ferocious terrorist beauty and smooth simple beauty.Moreover,it is imbued with rich cultural connotations,the worship of Shang-zhou ancients to God,Ancestral god and Natural god,the reflection of the will of Shang-zhou ruling class,the art of formal beauty and so on.