Exhibition of Ink Rubbings from Ancient Image Bricks
Dates: 12.3.2018-9.4.2018
Opening hours: 10:00-17:00
Location: Riverside Art Museum
Address: 200m toward the East from crossroad of Hangman Dong Road and Xidawang Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
On March 12th 2018, the Exhibition of Ink Rubbings from Ancient image Bricks will be open to the public in Riverside Art Museum in Beijing. Organized by Chinese Institute of Han Dynasty’s Art and the Riverside Art Museum, the Exhibition has gathered 587 pieces of works from 29 Chinese cultural heritage institutes which are all members of Chinese Institute of Han Dynasty’s Art. Occupied an area of nearly 10,000.00 square meters, the exhibition is no doubt the largest one in this theme after the founding of new China.
The ancient Chinese image bricks are a type of componente of the Chinese architecture, which is also one of the main form of Han Dynasty’s art. The application of this kind of elaborately-made bricks in Chinese traditional architecture was started from the period of warring states(about 500BC – 221BC), frequently used in Han Dynasty(202BC-220), and reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty(25-200). It was widely spread in central plains, Southeast zone and Southwest zone of China, and was particularly flourishing in Henan Province and Sichuan Province.
These ancient bricks tells a lot of ancient stories, legends and fables with a large variety of visual elements, mainly used for decoration of the stairs of palaces in Qin and Western Han Dynasty, and later for ornament of the walls in chamber tombs. They reflect vividly the life styles and social status of Han Dynasty, considered as the encyclopedia of the civilizzazione of that era, contributing greatly to the history of Chinese paintings and sculptures.
(Images from cnarts.net)
