Research on the Difference in Artistic Expression Style of Horse Images in Brick of Central Plains and Hexi Corridor

Abstract

Image brick is a carved wooden impression on the surface of semi-dry brick embossed pattern image, and then fired into a hard brick. Bricks originated in the Warring States Period and flourished in the Han Dynasty. They were mainly used for palace building and burial decoration. The performance techniques of the picture are Yin line carving, Yang line carving, and reducing the plane Yang carving. There are many subjects of expression, such as cooking, feasting, dancing, traveling, and hunting, as well as sowing, harvesting, salt Wells, and grazing in social production, as well as the fantasy of immortal people and beasts, and the emergence of fairies. Among them, the scene and frequency of the image of the "horse" are particularly prominent. The picture brick is like a silent camera, the ancient ancestors' life picture and mood long-cherished wish fixed frame on the Geng long stone wall. From the unearthed brick, the distribution area is mainly concentrated in Henan, Sichuan, Shandong, Jiangsu, northern Shaanxi, and Hexi Corridor, other areas also have different amounts of discovery. The author found that the image theme of the picture brick in each region has a universal unity; At the same time, different areas of brick portrayal content and expression techniques have their characteristics of difference. Taking the Yellow River as the dividing line, this paper selects the Central Plains where the number and types of unearthed bricks in the south of the Yellow River rank first in China, and compares them with the Hexi Corridor where the number of unearthed bricks in the west of the Yellow River is large and the style features are very prominent. Taking the image of "horse" as the main line, from the perspective of artistic aesthetics, through the analysis of the production technology and artistic expression style of the image of "horse" in the picture brick, trying to explore the different artistic expression differences of the same picture brick theme in the Central Plains and Hexi Corridor.