论明式家具及其艺术

A Commont on the Ming-Style Furniture and Its Artistic Characteristics

家具是人类文明社会不可或缺的日常生活用品,又是物质文化的重要组成部分,它包含和体现着一个时代的生活方式和审美情趣。明代是我国家具史上的黄金时代,明式家具以其典雅、简洁的独特艺术风格,成为我国家具民族形式的杰出典范和代表,是我们民族传统中不可多得的一份宝贵文化遗产。通过明式家具这一物质对象来研究凝结于其中的文化艺术内蕴,是家具史研究和艺术品鉴赏的一个重要课题。

As a necessary article for daily use and an important part of the substance culture, the furniture contains or embodies the life mode and aesthetic taste of the day. Ming can be considered as the golden age in our furniture history. And the Ming-style furniture, being characteristic of elegance and succinctness, examples or represents our nationality, and is among the best cultural inheritance of our national tradition. It is an important topic of the furniture history and artistic appreciation to research for the cultural, artistic connotation coagulated in the Ming-style furniture.