Artistic Human Body Structure Kinematics

Author: Chen Yuqiang / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Artistic Human Body Structure and Kinematics is a discipline that discusses human body structure and movement from the perspective of art. In art, humans are the primary subject of representation, and the image of a person is inextricably linked to the structural factors of the human body. Therefore, to well the image of a person, one must first understand the laws of the human body's structure and movement. This book is written with the aim of providing skill knowledge foring human figures in artistic practice. Artistic Human Body Structure and Kinematics covers both the structure and movement of the human body. Structure and movement are the modes of existence and inherent fundamental properties of matter. From the macro world of celestial bodies to the micro world of cells and molecules, all things in the universe possess both structure and movement. As one of the components of the universe, the human body is no exception. The structure and movement of the human body encompass all the attributes of this matter's mode of existence, naturally including all the relevant content about the human body involved in art. Artistic Human Body Structure and Kinematics was conceived under the inspiration of modern technologies such as computer image matrices, X-ray stratigraphy, and high-speed photography. It can be considered an interdisciplinary and marginal discipline that lies between disciplines such as Artistic Human Anatomy, Perspective, Human Ergonomics, and Human Kinematics, aiming to meet the needs of modern artistic creation practices for the theoretical techniques of human body shaping.
The feature of Artistic Human Body Structure and Kinematics is its three-dimensional and four-dimensional approach. It analyzes the construction and combination of the human body's parts both in their isolated states and in their coexistent states from the concept of "three-dimensional space" (height, width, and depth). Additionally, it examines the human body's structural forms in the progression of time from the concept of "four-dimensional space" (three-dimensional space plus time), analyzing the sequentiality, intermittence, continuity, and developmental nature of these forms. From the perspective of art, this book strives to explain the laws of human body structure and movement using intuitive illustrations, supplemented by textual elaboration and explanation where necessary.