Artists from the world create artistic Sanxingdui 

三星堆遗址祭祀区考古发掘再度公布重大成果，由四川国际传播中心联合川观新闻、四川省文物考古研究院、四川广汉三星堆博物馆共同举办的“幻彩三星堆”中华文化全球推广活动也渐入高潮，吸引了越来越多人为三星堆文物“上色”。

With the release of new archaeological findings from the Sanxingdui site's sacrificial pits and the 'Coloured Sanxingdui' Chinese culture global promotion launched by SICC, Chuanguan News, the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archeology Research Institute,and Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, the vibrant atmosphere in Sichuan has reached something of a crescendo, attracting more and more people to take part in 'colouring' Sanxingdui cultural relics for themselves.

据悉，近10位(组)中外艺术家日前强势加盟活动，用中国画、油画、新媒体艺术等方式展现“艺术”三星堆。

It is reported that afew days ago, about 10 artists (or groups thereof) from all over the world entered into the event, all working to create an 'artistic' Sanxingdui by varying means – from traditional Chinese painting to oil painting, and even new media art.

“三星堆的青铜器很特别，现在来看应该是很前卫的，很多当代艺术都不敢想象。”四川省工笔画学会会长、四川省诗书画院院长助理王申勇借鉴三星堆青铜人像原有的造型，综合了中国画的各种技法，选择用朱砂等矿物颜料为其上色。在他看来，三星堆时期文物的色彩，应是来自大自然的矿物颜料等，经过几千年才逐渐褪色。

"Sanxingdui's bronzeware is very special. It looks very cutting-edge even today, and even surpasses many contemporary arts works in creative terms." said Wang Shenyong, president of Sichuan Province Meticulous Painting Society and assistant to the president of Sichuan Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting Academy, as he shared his views on Sanxingdui bronzeware with us. He drew inspiration from the original Sanxingdui bronze figure's shape, used a comprehensive range of techniques drawn from Chinese painting traditions, and coloured it using mineral pigments such as cinnabar. He believesthat the Sanxingdui cultural relics were originallypainted using natural pigments such as mineral pigments, and that the colours gradually faded away after thousands of years.

同样用传统手法为三星堆文物“上色”的，还有四川省美术家协会副主席、成都市美术家协会主席姚叶红。“三星堆很多文物的色彩，当年一定是很光亮、很丰富的，用国画来表达恰到好处。”此次再创作，他选择了青铜面具、青铜神树、青铜神鸟三件有代表性的文物，在一幅画面中进行渲染和描绘，将写实与写意融为一体。

Yao Yehong, the Sichuan Artists Association's vice president and Chengdu Artists Association's president, also chose a traditionaltechnique to 'colour' Sanxingdui cultural relics. He stated: "The colours of many Sanxingdui cultural relics must have been very bright and rich back then, which matches perfectly with traditional Chinese painting." For this re-creation project, he selected the three representative Sanxingdui cultural relics of the Bronze Mask, Bronze Sacred Tree, and Bronze Sacred Bird to render and depict in a picture through utilizing a combination of freehand and realistic brushwork.

而在年轻艺术家笔下，“想象”三星堆的方式具有更多个性色彩。青年艺术家曾朴选择铜跪坐人像作为再创作对象，文物的上半身是面具，下半身让他想起汉代的陶俑，似乎体现了一种文明的脉络与传承。在上色方面，曾朴选择了红、黄、粉等十分丰富的色彩。“在没有褪色前，三星堆文物应该是很绚丽、很梦幻的色彩。”

Meanwhile, in the works of young artists, Sanxingdui is 're-imagined' in a more personalized way. Young artist Zeng Pu chose the Kneeling Bronze Figure as the object of his re-creation. The figure's upper body is a mask, and the lower body remindshim of the pottery figurines of the Han Dynasty, which makeshim feel a sense of connection and inheritance between civilizations. In terms of colouring, Zeng Pu applied rich colours such as red, yellow, and pink to his work. He said: "Sanxingdui cultural relics before their colours faded may be have been particularly gorgeous and dreamy."

青年艺术家吴江涛去过三次三星堆，对其文物的直观印象是“怪”。“大眼睛、大耳朵，这样的造型就十分独特!”吴江涛的画作结合了文物本体与创作个性，背景被极具反差的黑色和粉色一分为二，青铜面具则“长”出了淡粉色的耳朵，外凸的大眼睛也在施以淡蓝色后变得柔和起来，成了一个毛茸茸的可爱玩具的形象。

Another young artist Wu Jiangtao had visited Sanxingdui three times and found that 'weirdness' was the main impression that the cultural relics there gave her. "They have big eyes and big ears, and this kind of shape is very distinctive!" Wu Jiangtao said, as she shared her feelings with us. Wu Jiangtao's painting combinedthe cultural relic with her own creative personality. The background of the painting was divided into two parts by a contrast between black and pink, and the bronze mask had grown light pink ears, while the bulging eyes also seemed less shocking after being painted with light blue. This shaped the work into having the appearance of a cute and furry toy.

能否让三星堆文物离开平面绘画，赋予其更多可能性呢?一些新媒体艺术作品进行了尝试。在实验艺术家陈镪看来，三星堆文物的制作者本身就是艺术家，他希望同样用艺术的方式向他们致敬。在创作现场，他拿出特意制作的乐器，演奏自己创作的音乐，通过以声音为主的现场艺术作品进行时空对话，致敬三星堆文明。

Some new media art works have tried to endow Sanxingdui cultural relics with more possibilities without confining them to the single, flat dimension of traditional painting. In the eyes ofexperimental artist Chen Qiang, Sanxingdui cultural relics' creators were artists themselves, and so he hopes to pay tribute to them in an artistic way. At the creation space, Chen Qiang took out a specially made musical instrument, and performed his original music, hoping to travel through time and space to use his instrument, music, and sound work to hold a dialogue with Sanxingdui civilization.

也有创作者选择多学科跨界“团队作战”。U-CUTE团队汇集了来自建筑、室内、原创插画、动态视觉等多行业的年轻设计师和工程师们，他们希望通过青铜面具教大家说四川话的形式，让国际友人对三星堆文化及四川文化产生更加浓厚的兴趣。创作者们用数字图像与智能语言技术，赋予青铜面具动态表情和语言能力，一个能说“巴适”“安逸”的青铜面具由此诞生，完成了现代语言与远古文物的时空对话。

There are also creators who chose to take part in the re-creation project as part of multi-disciplinary and crossover creation teams. The U-CUTE team brings together young designers and engineers from various industries such as architecture design, interior design, original illustrations, and dynamic vision. They wish to arouse a huge new interest in Sanxingdui culture, and so Sichuan culture, among foreigners through utilizing the bronze mask to help teach people some words and phrases in the Sichuan dialect. The artists of the U-CUTE team deployed digital images and intelligent language technology to endow the bronze mask with dynamic expressions and some basic linguistic ability, thereby creating a bronze mask that could say"great" and "comfortable" in the Sichuan dialect, thereby enabling people from all over the world to hold a dialogue with ancient cultural relics across time and space with a modern language.