The stone carving art decorated with stone gardens is an important part of stone carving art, and has always been favored by lovers and collectors in the market. Based on the continuous transplantation, development and innovation of landscape tradition, there are many kinds of Stone Garden Decor that can be seen today, and the shapes of Stone Garden Decor are interesting and vivid. The decoration of stone gardens is not water without sources or trees without roots, but mostly animals with positive and auspicious symbolic meanings in traditional Chinese culture, such as lions, tigers, cows, horses, deer, cranes, dragons, phoenixes, Peacocks, elephants, unicorns and more. These animals are either totems or auspicious animals. They are made into arts and crafts and placed in a specific environment. In addition to being artistic and ornamental, they can also add auspicious meanings, welcome blessings and ward off evil spirits.
Interesting and vivid animal shapes are already pleasing, coupled with the auspicious meaning based on traditional culture, this makes Stone Garden Decor a more popular category in stone carving art. Because it is a work of art that can be appreciated, no matter the shape is realistic or abstract in disguise, it has strict aesthetic modeling requirements and craft production specifications. Generally speaking, animal shapes must be cute, good-looking, and interesting. The shape of the Stone Garden Decor is partly derived from bronze ware or
stone sculpture of other materials, and most of them are from the creation of stone carving designers. On the one hand, the creation of Stone Garden Decor inherits the tradition and transplants the essence; on the other hand, it combines Chinese and Western to create new things. The combination of these two aspects makes the Stone Garden Decor have a profound foundation and rich content.
To be specific, most of the bronze ware transplants or innovative Stone Garden Decor based on traditional stone sculpture follow the aesthetic style of traditional stone sculpture, with ingenious ideas, moderate deformation, and strong sense of form. Spotted flowers make the shape of Stone Garden Decor different from the formal beauty of general stone carving works of art. In addition, some of the animal shapes based on the Western-style stone carving works of famous artists have not diminished their aesthetic connotation and artistic appeal, and the works exude dazzling artistic light. After long-term development, there are many shapes of Stone Garden Decor, such as Pixiu, auspicious unicorn, sika deer wax table, camel, peacock, etc., which are representative works full of life and interest.
Animals are part of our nature and our friends. We don`t see many animals in our daily life. Sometimes we can choose to go to the zoo to see more animals. Stone Garden Decor brings us closer to animals. Stone Garden Decor is a stone carving made of animal shapes and characteristics through carving, engraving, and sculpture. The image of the Stone Garden Decor is very rich, each animal has its unique meaning, and the technique of stone carving pays more attention to the portrait and vividness, so that each animal can be vividly displayed in front of us.
