What does it mean to characterize Western sculpture

Western sculpture is characterized by its focus on documentary and artistic expression. Documentary allows the audience to understand human history, culture and society through the works, while artistic expression allows the works to make people feel different emotions and thinking. Most of the western sculptures are nude in the portrayal of figures, which fully reflects the openness and freedom of western sculpture.

In addition, Western sculpture also has a diversified performance in artistic style. Just like the representative sculptures of Ancient Greece, such as Venus of Milo and Goddess Athena, focusing on the portrayal of character features, each with its own characteristics. And in the Renaissance, artists began to try all kinds of technology to improve the sculpture, the development of high relief and gilded sculpture and other new technologies, so that the sculpture is more beautiful and has a higher aesthetic value.

Western sculpture also focuses on ****, universal theme to express the concept of creation, and this and the Chinese sculpture deliberately pursuing the "vivid chiaroscuro, Shen Yun Yi wanton" way of expression compared to the obvious difference. Western sculpture themes such as love, humanity, society, etc. in different countries and stages of history have a universal form of expression, which also ensures the inheritance and development of works.