What changes have occurred in present and contemporary sculpture?

Sculpture more and more emphasis on the civilian, living, emphasis on integration into people's daily life.

Sculpture, sculpture, refers to the beautification of the city or for commemorative significance and carving and shaping, with a certain moral, symbolic or pictorial ornamental objects and monuments. Sculpture is a kind of plastic arts. Also known as carving, is a general term for carving, carving, molding three methods of creation.

Refers to a variety of plastic materials (such as plaster, resin, clay, etc.) or can be carved, can be engraved hard materials (such as wood, stone, metal, jade, onyx, aluminum, glass fiber reinforced plastic, sandstone, copper, etc.), to create a certain space visual, tactile artistic image.

The art of reflecting social life and expressing the artist's aesthetic feelings, aesthetic emotions and aesthetic ideals. Through the carving, carving to reduce the carvable material material, plastic through the pile of plastic material to achieve the purpose of artistic creation.

Sculpture

1.Carving and molding. One of the plastic arts. Lu Xun "and jie ting miscellaneous essays two collections - in modern China's Confucius": "Where painting, or sculpture should be venerated when the figure, is generally larger than the norm as a principle." Yang Mo The Song of Youth and Spring, Part II, Chapter 20: "Lin Daojing gazed long and motionlessly at the marble sculpture's absolutely beautiful face."

2. It is a metaphor for making a character image taller by some means and method. Li Dazhao, "The Ethical Concept of Nature and Confucius": "Therefore, when I take up Confucius, I am not taking up Confucius himself, but I am taking up the authority of the idol sculpted by the monarchs of the past generations."