What tools are needed for stone carving?

Stone carving processing tools need chisels, hammers, braziers and other tools.

1, hand-carved products. That is, with chisels, hammers, brazes and other hand tools carving products.

2, semi-mechanized processing carvings. That is, part of the hand, part of the mechanized processing of stone carving.

3, fully automatic CNC machining carvings.

4, sandblasted carvings. Use sandblasting engraving machine for carving. Sandblasting engraving machine is the use of air machine (air pressure 5-6kg/square meter) and adamantine sandblasted in the products engraved at the carving.

5, chemical corrosion engraving. That is, the use of chemical corrosion solution and the chemical reaction carried out between the stone, to achieve the carving stone. There are convex (relief) and concave carving two kinds.

Extended information

Chinese and Western differences

Social public on them there is an essential difference

In the West, stone carving practitioners are known as stone carvers, they are with the painters, fine artists are looked at is the same in a group, while in China stone carving practitioners are known as artisans, their social status is low, only They are called general practitioners, or even rough laborers.

With the influx of Western stone carving, these stone carving practitioners were recognized, and stone carving was listed as an important part of the fine arts, and the status of the Chinese stone carvers was elevated, and only then did it increase the public's recognition of the stone carvers. This is one of the reasons why Western stone carving is so different from Chinese stone carving.

On a practical level

In the modern era, although the Chinese stone carver and the Western stone carver were very similar in terms of the form of their creations, they had very different social responsibilities. In China, stone carvers are still part of the traditional division of labor, and their main responsibility is to mold statues for temple buildings and carve stones for buildings. On the one hand, they do not have the freedom to create independently.

From the expression of the object, the work of the space

Their works lack the ability to intervene in social reality. In the West, in the "studio" free creation of stone sculpture can use the work to express their own observations of society, the power of the work is no weaker than the contemporaneous painters. Accepted by all parties, profit from the Western stone sculpture, its works can enter a variety of modern society's public **** space, such as squares, streets, parks, its works will naturally attract public attention.

This is another reason why Western stone sculpture is so different from Chinese stone sculpture.

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