Abstract

Author:
Limin Sui

Doi: 10.7508/jra.01.2022.24.31

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The schema mode and expressions of Xinjiang rock art highlight the characteristics of nomadic culture. The primitive aesthetics awareness reflects primitive cultural form, as the underlying purpose of primitive culture is to meet the survival needs of human beings, thus building an aesthetic cognition and consciousness that is in line with the subject consciousness. The formal beauty of rock arts first serves as an enhancing method to create meaning in “the integration of Wu Shaman and Arts” before being an expression form to please human beings. When appreciating the form of rock arts, the people in primitive society were motivated and satisfied through the communication between human beings and objects, and the interaction between human beings and gods, while gaining emotional pleasure and excitement. Rock art is a motivated and conscious way of life for primitive nomads. It is a purposeful and conscious creation of order, reflecting their instinctive and natural life desire and power.

KEYWORDS:
Xinjiang Rock Art, Primitive Aesthetics, Formal Beauty