My system is not decent

Chapter 1961 Without Beginning and End, Endless Aftertaste

Being able to fire pottery, then the basic conditions for making painted pottery have been met.

After getting to know some colored materials, the pattern of painted pottery is no longer a problem.

Faience pattern, with a large number of geometric ornamentation.

This is not only the continuation and change of the patterns of woven fabrics, fishnets, water eddies, and leaves in early pottery, but also the inner music and visual expression of primitive people.

It is undoubtedly a magical creation that people can express the sense of rhythm such as movement, balance, repetition, and strength that they experience with a brush.

The shapes of animals and plants in painted pottery are generally summed up with geometric shapes, showing both form and spirit, which shows the superb level of freehand brushwork in painted pottery art.

The pictographic patterns of painted pottery are various, and the most basic theme is reproductive theme.

There are numerous depictions of fish, frogs, plant fruits, flowers.

In the Banpo era, the average life span of a person was 30 to [-] years old, and childbirth was a mysterious and urgent matter.

Therefore, these prolific animals such as fish and frogs have become symbols of fertility.

Especially in matriarchal societies, the praise of fertility is the praise of women.

The theme of fertility and reproduction continues in folk art.

There are some very special graphics, such as the basin with human face and fish pattern unearthed in Banpo, which depicts patterns on the inner wall of the basin.

These pots are decorated with a round face and a triangular nose.

The eyes are drawn with two short lines, as if they are silently praying with their eyes closed.

Both ears and mouth are painted with fish, and other parts of the basin are also painted with fish.

This figure seems to be related to the primitive belief of the Banpo clan and is a product of totem worship.

This motif of using fish to decorate the human body has continued into folk art.

It's just that the meaning and symbol will change with the change of social customs.

The Majiayao painted pottery basin with dancing patterns unearthed in Shangsunjiazhai, Datong, Qing Province, depicts three groups of figurines holding hands on the inner wall near the mouth of the basin.

There are 5 people in each group of these villains, with headgear and tailgear.

The pattern of holding hands is a very important motif in folk art.

"Zhaji doll" has ever-changing patterns in folk art, but it is always said that it is a god for human reproduction and protection.

So patterns like the little man holding hands are not created purely for entertainment.

It contains the nature of "witch" and is a product that serves the actual purpose of human beings themselves.

On the basis of improving functions, the shapes of painted pottery are ever-changing.

This fully reflects the potter's artistic talent and never-ending enthusiasm for creation.

Moreover, different types of decoration techniques and artistic effects have their own characteristics.

The painted pottery of the Banpo type is represented by unearthed sites such as Banpo in Chang'an, Temporary Zhangjiangzhai, and Beishouling in Baoji.

The pottery used for coloring is usually a ring-bottomed flat-bottomed bowl, a flat-bottomed basin, a pot with a belly, and a narrow-necked bottle.

Patterns are painted on eye-catching positions such as the edge of the mouth, shoulders, and upper abdomen, or on the inner wall of the open basin.

In addition to geometric patterns such as wide-band triangles, slashes, and zigzags, there are also a large number of animal patterns, which have a strong interest in painting.

The painted pottery of the Miaodigou type is represented by those unearthed from Miaodigou in Shanxian County, Nanhe, and Quanhu Village, Huaxian County, Shanxi.

The color painting is mostly applied to the upper half of the outer wall of the curved abdominal basin with a large mouth and a small bottom. The style is light and straight, and the patterns are mostly drawn with arcs.

In addition to animal figures such as birds, fish, and frogs, the most streamlined decorative techniques are patterns composed of dots, arc-edge triangles, hanging curtains, bean pods, petals, and flower buds, and plant patterns have increased significantly.

Most of the patterns are formed in a two-sided continuous way, which has the wonderful effect of the virtual and the real.

Painted pottery of the Majiayao type, including urns, bottles, basins and jars.

The decorative area is large, and the patterns are mostly swirl patterns, wave patterns, and arc-edge triangular patterns, which have the characteristics of dense composition and changeable turns.

There are some rules of decoration, which can also be called rules.

First, "Without beginning and end, endless aftertaste."

Second, "Look up and look down, and look down from the top."

One is the rule of wandering eyes, which is a basic aesthetic principle of Chinese paintings and Chinese gardens later.

That is to say, the picture has neither starting point nor end point, presenting as a whole;
Second, the creation and viewing of painted pottery is based on "looking up and looking down".

This method of contemplation of China is carried out, which is also a basic rule that was widely used in poetry, painting and architecture later.

The pottery is round and faces all directions, and the figurative patterns focus people's attention on one side, tending to form a focal point and a fixed point.

After the figurative pattern turns into abstraction, the whole pattern is wandering, facing the four sides, so that the four sides form a coherent whole with neither starting point nor end point.

In this way, the drawing of painted pottery naturally becomes a moving scatter perspective, which allows you to appreciate the painted pottery by "moving step by step and looking at it face to face".

During this period, in the limited round surface of painted pottery, I realized a kind of "endless" meaning.

And this kind of "traveling eyes" is a basic aesthetic principle of later Chinese paintings and gardens.

Another feature of painted pottery in my country that is different from painted pottery from other cultures is that whether it is pots, bowls, bottles or jars, the effect of viewing from above and below is noticed.

For example, bottles and cans, before drawing the four-sided patterns, carefully take care of the patterns near the neck of the bottle and can, so that a harmonious pattern is also formed when viewed from above.

It can be seen that the creation and appreciation of painted pottery is carried out in accordance with the Chinese way of viewing "looking up and looking down".

This is also a basic principle that was later widely used in poetry, words, paintings and architecture.

To make these ancient painted pottery, it is natural to know them first and understand them.

No matter what kind of pottery or porcelain is made, it is necessary to pay attention to the quality of the fetus.

The painted pottery made by ancient ancestors is made of high-quality pottery clay alluvial by river water, which is pure and free of impurities, and is as moist as powder cake;

The mixed mud is flexible, and the fired pottery has a "glue" texture when viewed with the naked eye.

Due to the poor firing technology and relatively low firing temperature at that time, the fired pottery has strong water absorption.

Hitting the pottery body with your hands will produce a low muted sound;
Weighing the pottery with your hands feels relatively light in weight;
There should not be a heavy feeling of pressure; wet the pottery with water, you can smell a faint earthy smell; carefully observe the surface of the pottery for tiny needle holes.

Most of the ancient pottery is the living utensils of the ancestors. Before they were buried in the ground, there were bump marks on the body.

Long-term use of the body, there will be natural wear and tear.

There are also "shell color pastes" produced by contact with air, water, oil and other objects.

Painted pottery has been buried underground for thousands of years, and after long-term accumulation, the surface of pottery is covered with "scale".

The real "scale" cannot be washed away with water. Try brushing the "scale" with dilute hydrochloric acid, and you will see that the "scale" emits white smoke and foams.

In making a piece of ceramics, besides the quality of the tire, the most important thing is the shape.

The real ancient pottery gives people the feeling of simplicity, honesty, naturalness, softness, and vicissitudes, without a sense of blunt anger.

(End of this chapter)