敦煌隋代山水与空间表现

The Sui Dynasty Landscapes and Their Use of Perspective at Dunhuang

隋朝的故事画延续了北朝以来的长卷式连环画形式,但在山水树木的刻画及建筑物的表现方面,体现出对空间表现的深入。大画面经变画是隋代壁画的新气象,一方面源于当时佛教对净土世界宣传的需要,一方面也由于当时的绘画对山水、建筑等风景表现的成熟,使得宏大的佛国世界表现成为可能。隋朝在山水、树木、建筑及大画面构图方面都为唐代经变画的繁荣打下了基础。

Narrative paintings of the Sui Dynasty not only followed the Northern Dynasty form, which presented stories in long bands, but also employed perspective in landscapes and architecture. Large-sized sutra illustrations first appeared in the Sui dynasty, owing to the need to promote Pure Land Buddhism and to the maturity in representing landscapes, which made it possible to create such large illustrations. The landscapes, architecture, and large sutra compositions of the Sui Dynasty laid a firm foundation for the popularity of sutra illustrations in the Tang Dynasty.