At present, most of the most influential sculptures in China and the West are made of copper. For example, Rodin's "The Thinker", "The Bronze Age", and "The Statue of Liberty", the world's top sculptures are mostly made of copper. The lines are suitable for sculpture because of the texture, plasticity, unlimited specifications, and rich color texture of copper, which are also jade sculptures The effect that wood carving and stone carving can't achieve is that jade carving can only make very small works because of the limitation of materials. Because of the limitation of wood carving technology, there is no precedent for large outdoor sculptures. The inheritor, whose bronze carving has opened a new chapter in the 5000 year history of copper.
Most of the jades mentioned in daily life refer to nephrite, and there are many kinds of nephrite products. Generally, they refer to white sheepskin jade, white jade, topaz, purple jade, black jade, jasper, sapphire, ruby and northeast Xiuyu produced in Xinjiang. In the jade carving, the white jade with sheepskin is fine in texture and strong in luster, as white as sheepskin, which can be called "the king of nephrite" and "the crown of white jade". In addition, Nanyang jade, Lantian jade, Hotan jade, agate, crystal, coral, turquoise, lapis lazuli, etc., all belong to the category of nephrite. Later, due to the opening of the Silk Road, the jade produced in Hotan, Xinjiang, was unanimously recognized and began to play a leading role in the processing of royal, official and folk jade. Nephrite gradually evolved into a synonym for hotan jade.
Sculpture refers to the ornamental and memorial objects that are carved to beautify the environment or for commemorative purposes, and have certain meanings, symbols or pictographs. Sculpture is a kind of plastic arts. It is also called sculpture, which is the general name of three creation methods: carving, carving and sculpture. Fuzhou Colored sculpture It refers to the art of using various plastic materials (such as gypsum, resin, clay, etc.) or hard materials (such as wood, stone, metal, jade, agate, aluminum, glass fiber reinforced plastic, sandstone, copper, etc.) that can be carved or carved to create a visual and touchable artistic image with a certain space to reflect social life and express the artist's aesthetic feelings, emotions, and ideals. Colored sculpture customized The lines can reduce the carved material through carving, while the plastic can achieve the purpose of artistic creation by adding plastic material.
Sculpture art is a kind of plastic arts, also called sculpture, which is the general name of three creation methods of sculpture, carving and sculpture. It refers to the art of using various plastic materials (such as gypsum, resin, clay, etc.) or hard materials (such as wood, stone, metal, jade, agate, etc.) that can be carved or carved to create a visual and touchable artistic image with a certain space to reflect social life and express artists' aesthetic feelings, emotions, and ideals. It is diverse, so the law of development has different ups and downs. For example, the bronze ware manufacturing and decorative carving in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties in China were unmatched by future generations. The themes of the Han Dynasty's stone reliefs fully reflect the real life at that time. The sculptures in the Tang and Song dynasties certainly exceeded those in the Han Dynasty, but the works of the Tang and Song dynasties never fully reflected the reality as the Han Dynasty stone reliefs did. The handicraft industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty were improved compared with those in the Tang and Song Dynasties, but few sculptures in the Ming Dynasty fully displayed the characteristics of each work as in the Song Dynasty. Although the sculpture of the Ming Dynasty is not as good as that of the Tang and Song Dynasties, other artistic achievements of the previous dynasties are naturally behind.
The openwork carving technique is an original carving technique in Putian. There are still many "gold inlaid openwork lanterns" and "embossed flower windows" in the Palace Museum in Beijing, which all support the traditional craft charm of Putian wood carving. From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the beginning of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, Putian wood carvings were mostly made of longan wood, which was rich in local production. Carved into various military officers, women or gods, antiques, supplemented by old paint painting, make the work more deep color. Zhu Bangshou, Huang Dangui, Chen Xiange and other famous painters, together with Liu Ronglin, formed a round sculpture character style characterized by Pu style military generals. So far, many figures and architectural decoration wood carvings have been left for future generations in Guandi Temple, Yuanxia Village, Jiangkou Town, Jiufeng Village, Wutang Town and other old folk houses, These masterpieces, which combine round, transparent and relief carvings, are treasures of Putian wood carving art.
1. Traditional green sculpture shaping: directly pruning the plants with garden art. There are simple geometric shaping (such as sphere, cube, pyramid, cylinder), complex geometric shaping (layered shaping, spiral shaping, etc.), animal shaping and various peculiar shaping (automobile shaping, aircraft shaping, abstract and free shaping, etc.). Common plants include pine and cypress, privet, boxwood, national locust, elm, etc. 2. Grafting: taking a certain plant as the rootstock, grafting plants with different impressions on it, and then making artistic processing of its shapes, such as polychrome chrysanthemum bonsai, polychrome rose bonsai, polychrome peach, polychrome plum, polychrome crabapple, etc. Such as cliff chrysanthemum, tower chrysanthemum, animal shaped chrysanthemum, etc. 2.1 Single plant green sculpture refers to the sculpture formed entirely by one plant or one plant with multiple colors or by grafting multi-color plants. The sculpture has a long viewing period and simple operation. For example, tree sculptures can be kept for a long time only by special pruning, without considering flower changing and water spraying, and the maintenance management is simple. 2.2 Double plant green sculpture refers to the sculpture shaped by two different kinds of plants. The sculpture has a long viewing period and a strong three-dimensional sense, and usually uses the complementary and mutually reinforcing advantages of two plants for modeling. Such as evergreen and deciduous plants, broad-leaved and coniferous plants, lianas and herbs, as well as different colors, species, branches and leaves, such as leaf color, flowers and fruits, branches and stems. 2.3 Mixed plant green sculpture refers to sculpture with three or more kinds of plants. The sculpture has a short viewing period and complicated operation, but it is highly ornamental and lifelike. The common ones are large three-dimensional sculptures, some animal shaped sculptures elaborately composed of flowers, leaves and fruits of different plants according to design requirements, such as peacock, red crowned crane, panda, etc; Or symbolic sculptures with certain cultural connotation and city image, such as idiom allusion sculptures (learning to walk in Handan, dancing at the smell of chickens), Olympic seal, football World Cup, etc.