Sculpture Bearing “Meanings”: Tradition of French Classical Sculpture and Modern Sculpture of Sichuan Province

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10.2991/assehr.k.200907.108How to use a DOI?

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classical sculpture, sculpture language, media language, sculpture of Sichuan Province

Abstract

The so-called sculpture bearing “meanings” refers to a sculptural language system that vividly reproduces nature with full physical space, heavy volume, rigorous realistic skills, precise anatomical structure and proportion of shapes. This is an aesthetic law centered on the theme and completely faithful to the natural body structure. An important criterion for people to judge the pros and cons of classical sculpture language is the degree of conquest of media technology (shape, space, volume, anatomy, proportion, color, etc.). The higher the degree of conquest is, the more imitated is, the better the sculptor will be. In contrast to modernist sculpture, the tradition of classicist sculpture is not to express “objects” but to reproduce nature to the greatest extent. Sichuan modern sculpture introduced this teaching system to China through the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Paris. Its basic language paradigm is the French classical sculpture tradition. This is the transformation of Sichuan modern sculpture from “Theodizee” to “Anthrodizee”. The specific performance is the change of sculpture content (theme) from “God” to “man”, that is, modern sculpture begins to take “man” as the object of molding, which is an important sign of the difference between modern sculpture and ancient sculpture. As the representative of sculptors from other provinces, Liu Kaiqu immerses himself in the atmosphere of Sichuan culture. At the same time, there is the collision and blending of new sculpture and the sculpture tradition of Sichuan Province. His sculpture works created in Chongqing and Chengdu for decades have injected fresh blood into the modern process of Sichuan sculpture and composed a new chapter in the process of Sichuan modern sculpture.

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AU  - Xijun Deng
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