What are the characteristics of China's sculptures?

There are few pure sculptures in ancient China, which is the main reason why most people don't attach importance to the ancient sculptures in China. Western sculpture originated in ancient Greece. The ancient Greeks attached importance to the human body and shaped God into a perfect human being. They worship God and perfect heroes like God fighters and athletes. Create idols and memorial statues for them to worship and pay tribute to. The tradition thus formed has been handed down from generation to generation in the west and has become a pure sculpture art. However, the system, culture, philosophy and religion of ancient China were different from those of ancient Greece, and formed their own sculpture art. ..

The ancient sculptures in China are obviously painterly. China ancient sculpture and painting are brothers, both born in primitive arts and crafts. Since the era of painted pottery, plastic painting has been complementary and closely combined. When both of them are mature, they are still "similar in shape but in quality", adding color to the sculpture and improving its expressive ability. Many existing sculptures of past dynasties are pieced together by clay sculpture, stone carving and wood carving. Today's sculpture art has been completely westernized, and there is no more color, but folk sculpture still maintains the tradition of makeup. Ancient western sculptures are also colored. After the Renaissance, except for religious statues, most of them continued to be colored, and general sculptures were no longer colored. The separation of China's sculpture and painting leads to the consistency of aesthetic requirements between sculpture and painting. However, painting performance does not pay attention to the volume, space and block surface of sculpture, but to the rhythm and rhythm of contour lines and human clothing lines. These lines, like painting lines, have undergone a high degree of scrutiny, generalization, refining and processing, reflecting the shape of outlines and clothing lines with rich changes in block surface and space, which is completely different from western classical sculpture. The latter has a strong sense of volume, while the former has only a great relationship with volume, and most parts are flat. Sometimes concave lines are used on the plane to show the wrinkles of skin and clothes.

There is still no three-dimensional effect, only the plane effect of painting. Therefore, the surface of sculpture is usually smooth, and there are not as many subtle changes in light and shade as western sculptures. The ancient sculptures in China are very picturesque, with oriental flavor, which conforms to the appreciation habits of ancient China. They look at sculpture art from the perspective of painting art. Today, when we appreciate ancient sculptures, we also need to borrow the aesthetic vision of Chinese painting to grasp the aesthetic point.

Another feature of China's sculpture is imagery. Western sculpture has been trying to imitate and reproduce nature since ancient Greece, which is very realistic. China sculpture pays attention to the expression of "verve" of objects.