Stone carvings have always existed since ancient times, but with the changes of the times, the finished products are also different, mainly depending on the influence of culture. Today we will take a look at the styles of Marble Sculpting in each period.
The emergence and development of
stone carving are inseparable from human production and life. Art comes from life and is higher than life. Ancient Chinese folk stone carvings are also rich and colorful. Stone carvers truly express their hearts, shape their own lives, and appeal their yearning for a better life to stone carvings. Generally speaking, the performance content of ancient stone carvings includes three aspects, imperial power, religion and folk. Compared with Buddhist themes and imperial tomb stone carvings, the creation of folk stone carvings is more free in expression and richer in themes. It is a spontaneous creation that radiates the life wisdom of the working people everywhere. Such as sugar figurines, dough figurines, clay figurines, north and south wood carvings, etc., are vivid and full of vitality, and are precious treasures left by ancient ancestors.
We can see many murals and stone carvings from the caves of primitive people. They appealed their feelings, dreams, fantasies, and even hopes and prayers to their creations. There were no written records at that time, and the ancestors had already used mud and stones to create what they thought was beautiful. Studying these stone sculptures is not difficult to find that people also expressed their fear of space on the stone sculptures, because people at that time had limited knowledge of nature, and they had instinctive fears of wind, rain, thunder, lightning, earthquakes and floods. Because of the fear of space, primitive people need to go together to deal with beasts and sudden natural disasters, so they need to reproduce and grow the group. Therefore, primitive people's worship of reproduction is also reflected in primitive art, and primitive people will show their reproductive desire in stone carvings and murals. People's worship of primitive religion is also shown in primitive art.
And each period has its representative stone carving style, which is the concentrated expression of the culture, politics and philosophy at that time. The mysterious abstraction represented by Sanxingdui, the realism represented by the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shihuang, the freehand brushwork represented by the Han warriors, the idealized model represented by Buddhism, the exaggeration represented by the stone carvings of the Six Dynasties, and a large number of clay sculptures and wood carvings among the people and the construction of rural roads The seal carvings, wood carvings and stone carvings and decorations inside all reflect the great wisdom of the nation. Regardless of the type and style of stone carving, it is the ancient people's perception of life and an artistic presentation of real life. China's long history of 5,000 years of civilization, there are stone carvings that can be sorted out and recorded, and there are stone carvings that can be traced back to the origin, let us remember it.
