the taotie design of the bronze sculpture

As a sort of decoration and a pattern, taotie motif on the bronze sculpture transfers the illusory image to a simple, regular and geometric form.  The nose was wishful-shaped head like wishful head, smaller than the Neolithic, the head more than two volumes-shaped angle, which is the Long angle formed by the first stage. The second class of animal body dragon shape: arrogance, limbs have claws, body like the animal body, the tail volume transfer. The tiger, the basic is a realistic technique of expression, one film to the plate and sculpture in the round shape jade. Aesthetic Requirements for the bronze sculpture
 Commercial Fu Hao tomb unearthed jade tiger creeping flutter OK - like, stout body, square head proudly exposed sharp teeth. Head-shaped eyes, ears alert erected from the back of a slightly concave hip, extremities reach the foot eagle claws, tail drooping tip of the tail on the volume. Body decorated deformation volume moire and neck tail scales pattern or nodular pattern decorative. Taotie on the bronze sculpture is one of the most and earliest successful models. The outer contour of the tiger and the body geometry auxiliary decorative bronze patterns in the performance practices are the Yinxian or double hook Yinxian carved. The tiger's mouth to the tube drill Lou air drilling, goes to the lower jaw to stay out of the polygonal stellate openings. Jade Tiger feet, the shape of a square, a straight line or a line of several Road incised, expressed joints and claws.
Because the clouds move, which represents the wind blows, so the tiger who accompanied deformation hook moire is also a primitive ancestors of the five elements five-philosophy embodies. Gives the visual enjoyment of the entire tiger, carved tiger, the shape is extremely realistic. the latter part of the tiger back bronze decoration, legs and tail of the bronze patterns tend to simplify or even become plain no pattern to parallel to the twists and turns pattern. From the point of view of the bronze decoration, they have considerably simplified, only a few strokes to outline the image of the tiger. Often large vortex pattern in the form of the joint is no longer impose other decorative bronze patterns. First, balance and symmetry, the kind of elementary beauty is executed in the taotie design of the bronze sculpture .
Five, pottery, bronze patterns Review. The face of the historical relics of these five thousand years ago, we can easily imagine the scene of history about the original clan society: men farming, hunting, fishing, women engaged in housework or gathering. There is no exploitation, no slavery, an equal and harmonious social scene. The shapes on both sides of the bronze sculpture are alike but in the opposite direction.