The Artistic Innovation of Chinese Zodiac Culture in Jingdezhen Ceramic

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10.2991/mehss-18.2018.15How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese zodiac theme; ceramic; artistic innovation.

Abstract

Our ancestors believed that humans and animals were related by blood from the primitive society, and Chinese zodiac culture originated from the ancient Chinese animal worship, totem worship and early astronomy. The Chinese zodiac appeared on the ceramic, the earliest can be traced back to the Banpo ancient painted pottery, neolith pot depicted on a wild boar is excavated in Hemudu, colored pottery depicted on the puppy in unearthed in Xindian, the modeling is concise, people have been able to re-create beasts through imitating the nature, so meet the aesthetic needs of life. After many years, ideological and academic field are unprecedented prosperity, culture and art has also been greatly advance, peoples' aesthetic understanding is improved and strengthened continually, various animal painted pottery, utensils are also widely used in all aspects of people's life. Jingdezhen is famous for porcelain; ceramic is the root of the city. The kiln fire in Jingdezhen has been inherited for over a thousand years, and now it has become the cultural symbol of our Chinese nation. Art must follow times, today's Jingdezhen, the continuous innovative consciousness make the city full of vitality, a group of artists with original spirit and innovative thinking inherit traditional ceramic, at the same time, use all kinds of art forms and ceramic combination to explore constantly. Contemporary Jingdezhen ceramic art bear art which ceramic art as the main line, show the spirit culture thickness of porcelain capital, and its splendid ceramic art achievements.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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