According to the different nature of application, it can be divided into practical garden sculpture, decorative garden sculpture and thematic garden sculpture.

Practical garden sculpture:

It mainly refers to the types of sculptures that have practical use in gardens, including feng shui balls, corridors, pavilions, stone tables and chairs, flower pots, fountains, etc.

Decorative garden sculpture:

It refers to those sculpture works that play a decorative role in gardens, such as flower windows, rock paintings, etc.

Theme garden sculpture:

It is the image representative of garden sculpture. According to different personality needs, different thematic sculptures should be selected, which are usually used to express certain ideas and convey certain information in order to influence everyone's body and mind and promote social development.

It can be divided into round sculpture and relief sculpture according to different carving methods. Relief sculpture can be divided into high relief sculpture, low relief sculpture, intaglio sculpture and openwork sculpture. Classification of material processing, stone carving, bronze carving (metal casting and forging), wood carving, root carving, jade carving, etc. Functions include city sculpture, shelf sculpture, gift sculpture, miniature sculpture, etc.

stone carving

relief

Round sculpture is the most common carving method in garden sculpture; Relief is usually used for rock paintings in gardens; Carving is often used in flower windows and garden decorations.

It can be divided into stone carving, bronze carving, stainless steel carving, cement carving, etc. according to the different materials used.

stone carving

The individuality of gardens is different, and the materials of sculptures are also different. Stone carvings are the most widely used, and bronze carvings are usually used for garden themed sculptures,

1. Sculpture refers to the ornamental and memorial objects carved and shaped to beautify the city or for commemorative purposes, which 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. It refers to various plastic materials (such as gypsum, resin, clay, etc.) or carved hard materials (such as wood, stone, metal, jade, agate, aluminum, glass fiber reinforced plastic, sandstone, copper, etc.) to create a visual and touchable artistic image with a certain space to reflect social life and express artists' aesthetic feelings, emotions, and ideals. Carving and carving can reduce the amount of carveable material, while plastic can achieve the purpose of artistic creation by adding plastic material.

2. Development history

The emergence and development of ancient garden sculpture art sculpture is closely related to human production activities, and is directly affected by social ideologies such as religion and philosophy in various times. When human beings were still in the Paleolithic Age, primitive stone carvings and bone carvings appeared. Sculpture is a relatively permanent       - The art of permanence, the traditional concept that sculpture is a static, visible, touchable three-dimensional object, through sculpture appeal to the visual space image to reflect reality, so it is considered to be the most typical plastic arts, static art and space art. Stainless steel sculptures are usually used as symbolic sculptures. In addition, there are ice sculptures and snow sculptures, which are a kind of sculpture art unique to northeast gardens in winter.

With the development of science and technology and the change of people's ideas, there are anti traditional four-dimensional sculpture, five-dimensional sculpture, acousto-optic sculpture, dynamic sculpture and soft sculpture in modern art. This is due to the emergence of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which broke through the world view established by Newton's theory and changed people's view of time and space, making sculpture art understand and express the world from a higher level, breaking through three-dimensional, visual and static forms, and exploring multi-dimensional space-time mentality.

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