The similarities and differences between Chinese traditional sculpture and western traditional sculpture

Sculpture in society is influenced by the natural form of society, by the limitations of people's thinking, resulting in a primitive sculpture of a kind of reverence for the gods and the worship of nature and the formation of a simple art form.

To the feudal society, the sculpture of the West and China began to differentiate, but not that there is no connection, the West and China sculpture of the **** the same point is that they are religious/deities as the theme and the Western sculpture, the image of God and man is very close, but different from man, they are wise, noble, temperament and people are different. Early Western sculpture, although the main theme is said to be mainly figures, but in fact, the image of "God" is still the main. Early feudal China still has the shadow of the primitive sculpture, the form of most of the gods, beasts and animals, there is no special fixed form. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the introduction of Buddhism in India brought about an immediate change in the form of sculpture in China. The original sense of sculpture in the consciousness of the ruling class into a religious form, this form is in fact in addition to reflect the will of the ruling class, which can be very well reflected in the sculpture of China and the West.

The so-called biggest difference between Chinese and Western sculpture, in fact, is reflected in the sculpture of the expression of the method, Chinese sculpture focus on the "form and spirit", Western sculpture is more focused on the perfection of the form and the real. So we seem, in the western sculpture, the grasp of the human body is very in place, Leonardo da Vinci himself dissected more than 10 human corpses, therefore, western sculpture, is built on the basis of the grasp of the human body structure of the real, and Chinese sculpture, although also focus on the shape of the changes, but pay more attention to the connotation, that is, the "God": the use of a large number of lines to express the colorful changes, therefore, in the Chinese sculpture, you It seems that you can not find the real volume, but you can see the main idea reflected in the sculpture.

The so-called biggest difference between Chinese and Western sculpture was created after the Western Renaissance. At this time the western art form, by the influence of the renaissance, produced a variety of forms coexisting in a situation, not only preserved the sculpture of God as the theme, and at the same time produced some of the post-modern sculpture of human thought as the theme, such as some of the abstract form of the sculpture, Rodin's work in the renaissance is very representative of the significance of the sculpture of God as the theme of the pattern of a long time, at the same time, added the humanistic ideas, so that the works of God as the theme of sculpture. Added humanistic ideas, so that the sculpture is more vivid.