I. The traditional art characteristics under the influence of the basic spirit of Chinese culture
The basic spirit of Chinese culture has been fully demonstrated in the field of ancient art, enabling it to continue to this day. Any work of our lighting designers is judged by this spirit. Therefore, it is necessary to give a brief introduction to the expression of ancient art to the basic spirit of Chinese culture.
(1) Painted pottery art
Painted pottery art began 8000 years ago and is the beginning of Chinese art. There are three main areas of Chinese painted pottery: the Central Plains, the Northwest and the southeastern coastal areas; the decorative patterns of painted pottery mainly include: figure patterns (human face, group dance, frog pattern), animal patterns, plant patterns (petal lines, Leaf pattern, tree pattern, grain pattern), geometric pattern (square pattern, net pattern, ripple, triangle pattern, round pattern pattern), the most is geometric pattern.
Chinese painted pottery has two distinctive features: First, the transition from figurative to abstraction of the painted pottery pattern is synchronized with the evolution of Chinese cultural concepts; second, the structural characteristics of the painted pottery pattern are consistent with the basic principles of Chinese aesthetics. From figurative to abstract, the most representative are the abstraction of fish, the abstraction of birds, the abstraction of flowers, the abstraction of frogs, and the abstraction of human and animal. This process of abstraction is the process of rationalization of art. It is the transformation of the primitive gods in Chinese culture into the emperors of the human world. The myths are historicalized and the emperors and gods are transformed into the universe. God is real, qi is imaginary, and the transformation of God into qi is a real change. The change from the figurative to the abstract of the painted pottery pattern is in line with the evolutionary path from the real to the virtual in the culture.
The structural characteristics of painted pottery art have already implied two basic principles of Chinese traditional aesthetics: one is the perspective of scatter. When the painted pottery is round and facing the square, the figurative pattern focuses people's attention on one side, tending to form a focus and a fixed point. After the pattern is transformed into an abstraction, the whole pattern is wandering, facing the four sides, so that the four sides form a one-piece whole that has neither a starting point nor a terminating. The drawing of the painted pottery naturally becomes a scatter perspective, which surrounds people. Painted pottery enjoys the “step by step, face-to-face†appreciation, and realizes an “endless†meaning in the limited round surface of the painted pottery. This is the so-called "tours", which is one of the basic principles of Chinese painting and garden creation; the second is "looking up and down." This means paying attention to the effects of the above when designing and producing the work. This aesthetic principle is the basic principle widely used in later poems, words, paintings and architecture.
