Why sculpture as the beginning of art, sculpture first

Why sculpture is the beginning of art, sculpture first as follows:

Sculpture is one of the oldest forms of human art. It has a long history, almost as long as human history. As a kind of plastic art.

Sculpture art creates visible and touchable artistic images with a certain space through a variety of plastic materials, reflecting the artist's thoughts on social life, history and culture with three-dimensional images, and expressing the artist's aesthetic feelings, aesthetic emotions and aesthetic ideals.

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Sculpture is a kind of plastic art, the visual art of three-dimensional spatial image produced by material materials and means. The earliest sculpture was mainly created using carving and molding in stone, metal, wood, ceramics and other materials. However, modernist sculpture, with a high degree of freedom in materials and creative techniques, can be created using carving, welding and molding in a variety of different materials.

Chinese sculpture art, an important part of Chinese culture. The main content of ancient Chinese sculpture art: tomb sculpture (including the ground memorial stone carving and burial figurines) religious sculpture, folklore and other content of the sculpture.

Large mausoleum carvings began in the Han Dynasty tomb of stone people, stone animals. Surviving ancient mausoleum stone carvings mainly for the Southern Song Qi Liang Chen and Tang Northern Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, the emperor's mausoleum and the remains of the noble relatives based on the Xunchen. Northern Wei, Liao, Jin, Xixia and other dynasties mausoleum base road seriously damaged, only a small number of stone carvings remain. The works of the Southern and Tang Dynasties represent the highest achievement of mausoleum stone carving.

Chinese sculpture in the subject matter and sculpture techniques have distinctive national characteristics, and in the long-term development, continue to absorb and integrate a lot of foreign art components. The peak of its development is the Qin-Han, North and South Dynasties, Sui and Tang dynasties, after the Five Dynasties, large-scale carving activities are decreasing, while small and medium-sized sculpture has a new development.

After the 20th century, under the influence of European sculpture, there are some monumental sculptures in the style of Western sculpture and a large number of sculptures on the shelves. after the 80th generation of the 20th century, the rise of urban environmental sculpture, Chinese sculpture has entered a new period of development.

Because of the constraints of traditional concepts, not many sculptors have left their names in the history of Chinese art, and there is a lack of theoretical works on sculpture. The study of the history of Chinese sculpture and the summarization of creative experience mainly began in modern times.