Shamanic Artistic Form

Author: Li Hongfu
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Shamanic figurative art refers to various forms of artistic expressions related to the shamanic ritual process, including masks worn by shamans, costumes they wear, spirit dolls offered, musical instruments and ritual tools they use, as well as altars, offerings, vessels, and symbolic scripts applied in sacrificial practices. These figurative arts elevate material forms to the realm of spiritual culture, embodying artistic material symbols. The symbols in shamanic figurative art are imbued with the poetic wisdom of shamans. Shamans expand these poetic symbols from the finite human world to the infinite realm of the divine, serving as tools for shamans to communicate between "humans" and "gods." Shamans are the creators of these acts of will.