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Column compere: Yu Hui | |
Horse
did not appear in the human being's life until the late Neolithic Age
when the human being improved the capability of controlling the nature;
our descendants harnessed the running wild horses. From then on, horses
have been involved in the human being's life; the society of the human
being develops as fast as a horse runs; horse becomes the intimate friend
of the human being for the thousands of years. Many aesthetic perception
and personified spirits and virtues are found in the shape and habits
of a horse.
Horse is one of permanent themes of art. When people began to express his feeling for the horse in brush and ink on the paper and silk, paintings on horse and figure appeared. When people began to carve horses out of different materials, the objects in the shape of horse and the motives of horse on objects appeared. In order to rein horses and decorate horses, people produced many harness fittings. The harness fittings with the highest art valuation are those imperial ones with double functions of usage and enjoyment, among which those in the Forbidden City of Qing Dynasty are the best. This exhibition consists of 3 parts: paintings of horse and figurine, objects in the shape of horse and imperial harness fittings. We would like to present visitors the civilization on the horseback, which has been glorious in the history, as our gift to the first year of horse in the new millennium. |
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Design:Zhang
Zhaoping
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