阿玛纳时期浮雕的两种创作趋势

Two Compositional Tendencies in Amarna Relief

"古典"时期浮雕作品的"同位构图"模式,其特征是各种人物形象和元素之间的孤立,相互构成对方的同为元素或是附属单元,并不构成有机的整体。阿玛纳时期的艺术家对于创作构图的作用有着充分认识和自觉,首次综合运用风格、准则、哲学和传统来生产艺术作品,使得作品的整体布局取代了同位创作构图中孤立的形式和意义特征的聚合,是这一时期艺术创作的重要创新。

The 'appositive composition' mode of the Classical Relief in Egypt is characterized by the individual representation of human figures and objects. The major figures and objects, when viewed in relation to each other, act as apposites, as adjunct entities or terms rather than only as subunits of a greater compositional system. The Amarna artists had sophisticated awareness of the role of composition and, for the first time, consciously exploited composition and artistic structure in the complex synthesis of style, canon, philosophy, and tradition contributing to the production of a work of art. Thus it is the innovation of this period that the unity of the composition taken the place of the aggregation of individual forms and meaning in the appositive composition.