Sculpture materials and concepts

Sculpture is an important part of plastic arts. It conveys the creator's artistic concept through the media such as modeling and materials, and expresses the creator's artistic concept, that is, the creative concept of sculpture art. Artists use materials as a medium to transform artistic images into concrete, perceptible artistic images and vital works of art through artistic conception and artistic expression. There are many materials available for sculpture. A good work is characterized by a high degree of unity of materials and concepts, and accurate control of various differences in materials. With the development of the times, the materials of sculpture works have changed from traditional materials such as wood, stone and mud to more choices. Great changes in social background such as philosophy and science since the 20th century have expanded the boundaries of sculpture and the understanding of materials. The purpose of this paper is to explore the whole process from the conception and practice of sculpture works to the processing into works of art. A good work of art not only interprets the artistic concept of the creator, but also perfectly applies all kinds of constituent materials to the extreme.

Keywords; Concept of sculpture modeling materials

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On the Application of Materials and Concepts in Sculpture

basic concept

1, sculpture, refers to the most three-dimensional plastic arts type, its artistic image is three-dimensional, is displayed in three-dimensional space, with a certain weight; Not only visually, but also touchable. Art that reflects social life and expresses artists' aesthetic feelings, emotions and ideals. The title of "sculpture" comes from its production method. Carving refers to processing and manufacturing hard materials and cutting off unnecessary parts. Plastic refers to soft materials piled up according to ideas.

On the Application of Materials and Concepts in Sculpture

2. Media refers to the communication tool between two things.

On the Application of Materials and Concepts in Sculpture

3. Artistic expression refers to the artist's materialization of artistic image in artistic conception activities with the help of certain material media, artistic language and means of expression, making it a concrete and perceptible artistic image.

Second, the material meaning.

On the Application of Materials and Concepts in Sculpture

1. Materials are substances used by human beings to make articles, devices, machinery or other products. Not all substances are called materials. Sculpture materials refer to the substances that constitute sculpture works.

On the Application of Materials and Concepts in Sculpture

2. Sculpture also pays attention to the aesthetic function of materials, and different materials have different textures. Some sculptures even deliberately highlight the material beauty of their works while showing their shapes. It is the ideological embodiment of every sculpture creator to create artistic works with materials as the medium and give them life.

On the Application of Materials and Concepts in Sculpture

3. Concept is a systematic collection of subjective and objective understanding of things, and creators conduct artistic activities in line with their own creative intentions. Sculpture art has gone through different historical stages from development to maturity to today, and has been influenced by different social backgrounds such as history, culture, philosophy, science and technology, forming different artistic opinions and different concepts. Therefore, with the development of sculpture from beginning to end, western sculpture experienced a series of developments, from the elegance and exquisiteness of ancient Greece to the grandeur of ancient Rome, and then to the Renaissance, which pushed the classical sculpture characterized by figurative realism to a peak and was crushed after a long period of intuition. It was not until the Renaissance that artists paid more attention to form, reality and man himself, and began to advocate human rights against theocracy and secularize religious themes. It fully shows that the relationship between works and reality is not only a causal relationship, but also an environmental thermometer and seismograph. But materials only rely on traditional materials, such as wood, stone and copper. This state continued until Rodin.

On the Application of Materials and Concepts in Sculpture

From the beginning, Rodin was determined to revive the art of medieval churches. This goal may lead him to the same "masonry structure" through another narrow path. After Rodin, western sculpture began to move towards abstraction, form and media. Matisse began to emphasize the visual effect of modeling itself and lines, Picasso would deconstruct and reorganize, Tatlin emphasized the composition of geometric forms, Broncusi began to respect the material itself, and Bochuni invested time. Dadaism, especially Duchamp's integration of ready-made products into artistic creation, blurs the boundary between art and life, weakens the technicality of creation and emphasizes the concept of creation. After World War II, Boyce, a genius of western postmodern art, put forward that "everyone is an artist", which completely liberated the creative thinking of artists. In sculpture creation, it is no longer limited to traditional materials, but has entered a state of doing everything possible, and materials have gradually become an indispensable and important part of sculpture.

On the Application of Materials and Concepts in Sculpture

Third, the expansion of materials in sculpture With the development of society and the progress of philosophy and science, the richness and diversity of materials have also developed unprecedentedly, and their position in sculpture has also been greatly improved.

On the Application of Materials and Concepts in Sculpture

1. The intervention of new contents, new ideas and new concepts broadens the boundaries of sculpture and makes the space for sculpture creation more free. The new materials make up for the limitations in the process of sculpture creation, making it more in line with the creator's ideas and the aesthetic taste of modern people.

On the Application of Materials and Concepts in Sculpture

2. marcel duchamp, one of the greatest artists in the 20th century, directly influenced the development of western art after World War II and changed people's understanding of art. After Duchamp, the boundary between art and non-art became blurred, and any ready-made product could become art and anyone could become an artist. He emphasized that the importance of art lies in the artist's intention and creative ideas to be expressed. Concepts are like mosaics. Although they are infinitely close to intuition, they will never be realized. So you can't make a work of art by concept alone. Therefore, materials have also become an important part of conceptual art, and collage and ready-made products have been brought into artistic creation, greatly enriching the choice of materials for sculpture. The appearance of 19 17 spring marks the birth of conceptual art. After Duchamp, a series of conceptual artists such as yves klein, Piero manzoni, Crystal, Crede Martin and Damian Haust collectively influenced post-war western contemporary art such as pop art. After Rudolf Stinger's works of Silver Paper or Julong were straightforward, Duchamp's Urinating Pot is Art and Pollock's Painting Without Painting were merged into one, and then there was nothing.

On the Application of Materials and Concepts in Sculpture

3. The old Schenberg's exhibition in China Art Museum influenced the rise of Art Nouveau in China. No matter thousands of years of traditional art or new art ... in old Shenberg, this kind of thing is taken casually and treated like a game. From the late 1980s to the 1990s, the contemporary sculpture circles in China basically completed the understanding and research of modern western sculpture. And try to apply the concept to sculpture. By 2000, contemporary sculpture showed a more open attitude, not only accepting the achievements of installation, architecture and conceptual art, but also beginning to incorporate some new artistic visual ways in form, bringing time and process into contemporary sculpture ... Concepts and materials became more and more important in sculpture creation, and creators became more and more proficient in the use of the concept of material selection.

Four. Conclusion In today's context, contemporary sculpture not only inherits and develops the tradition, but also endows it with new characteristics of the times and constantly enriches the language forms. The creator no longer stays at the pure material level, but simply pays attention to the surface of the material. Through the study of materials and concepts in sculpture, we realize that sculpture materials are diverse, but they are closely linked with the creators' ideas and integrated into one. Try to discuss how close artistic progress is to predecessors, which shows how far it is from "richness, diversity, pluralism and variability"