中国古代图案艺术中的重复图案

摘要

This paper adopts the method of general phenomenology and semiotics to re-investigate and comprehend the art of traditional Chinese pattern designs and proposes the new concept of “repeated patterns”. In semiotic deconstruc-tion, the concept of repeated patterns as signs means that absence constructs presence———the repeated patterns construct-ed in the real order———any patterns with semiotic features are inherently structured as repeated patterns; the prevalent two-sided continual and quadrilateral continual patterns in ancient Chinese designs manifest the nature of repeating in pattern art as semiotic art and practical art. Traditional Chinese pattern art has a symbolic nature which can not be re-placed and transcended by painting, and a synthetic value of practicability, artistry, quasi-textuality and cultural originality.%以符号学方法重新勘察中国传统图案艺术，有利于廓清重复图案的内涵。在符号解构观中，作为符号的重复图案意味着不在场构成在场的原本境域构成，任何有符号特征的图案都是内在结构性的重复图案；中国古代图案艺术中大量的二方连续、四方连续等外观形式上的重复图案，体现的是作为符号艺术、实用艺术的图案艺术的重复本性。中国传统图案艺术具有绘画艺术不可替代和超越的符号性、实用性、艺术性、类文字性、文化源头性的综合价值。