A Micro-Case Study of Artistic Design and Human-Society Interaction: The Bronze Shell-Storage Vessel of the Dian Kingdom as an Example
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Shell-storage vessel, Bronze art, Art anthropologyAbstract
The sociocultural characteristics of creative and design artifacts have attracted a lot of scholarly interest since the 20th century. The study of Shell-Storage Vessel and their relationship to Dian society is very important since they are iconic bronze artworks of the Dian state. This study uses the storage vessels' planar ornamentation, three-dimensional adornment, and overall artistic effect to analyze their stylistic qualities and evolutionary logic. It delves more on how these stylistic changes interact with Dian culture. In the end, the study comes to the conclusion that, as Dian society's power systems deepened, the storage containers' artistic style changed from early simplicity and elegance to later complexity and secularism.
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