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Immensity in Trivialness, Integrity in Brokenness --To View The Bapo Painting from The Dimension of Time and Space

Yuwei XuDepartment of Cultural Heritage and Museology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

The Bapo Painting is a traditional form of art in China. Painters form the pictures by depicting the fragments of cultural relics. In recent years, with the increasing academic interest in "debris" and "ruins", Bapo Painting has also attracted more and more attention from Chinese and foreign scholars. However, as "intentionally-created" fragments, the richness in time and space embodied by Bapo Paintings has rarely been explored. Therefore, this paper will research the temporal and spatial value of the Bapo Painting. On the dimension of time, the Bapo Painting aggregates the past, present, and future. First, the life of the Bapo Painting begins before creation because its subjects are all antiques. Second, the selection and description techniques of fragments in the paintings disclose the social background at the time of creation. Lastly, the fragments on the paintings can trigger people's thoughts about the future destiny of things and their own lives. On the dimension of space, the fragments in Bapo Paintings constitute integrity, showing the dialectical relationship between incompleteness and completeness. From the creator's perspective, the spatial concept reflects a cultural blend of East and West. From the viewer's perspective, the fragments in Bapo Paintings can not only arouse reflection on the overall composition and connotation, but also initiate attempts to reconstruct the noumenon of fragments. Through the integrated perspective of time and space, Bapo Paintings embody the harmony between man and nature as well as the "aesthetics of ruins" that permeates China's cultural genes. Although the Bapo Painting is excluded from the mainstream, it represents the core spirits of traditional Chinese culture.

Keywords: Chinese; and; culture; intentionally-created; fragments; space; Painting; time; Bapo; traditional
Published: May 17, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/3/20220145
Volume: CHR Vol.3
pp. 47-54
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