Stone Garden Statues refer to stone sculpture that use metal as the material material. The application of metal materials is an extremely important symbol in the development of human civilization. In the field of stone carving, the use of metal materials should be traced back to the late Neolithic Age. The appearance of iron, bronze, and bronze wares marks that humans have mastered smelting and casting technology. Metal materials, because they are easy to process and can be stored for a long time, are widely used in utensils, weapons, etc. Among them, there are many metal products that can be called stone carving works in terms of volume and craftsmanship. They have both practical value and strong aesthetic value. . In modern times, the emergence of new technical techniques and metal types has made metal materials more widely used in stone sculpture . Metal materials occupy an absolute position in the field of stone sculpture . Common permanent stone sculpture and commemorative stone sculpture are mostly made of metal.
There are many kinds of metals, each with different physical properties. They can be cut, welded, cast, forged, and the surface treatment can be polished, polished, corroded and rusted. Stone carving works made with different processing techniques express the beauty and artistic conception of various materials. Metal materials have a charming material beauty. The artistic thinking and creative emotion of stone sculptors are highlighted under the beauty of metal materials. They not only have a stable and calm material sense, but also contain profound inner meanings. This is why stone sculptors choose metal materials more. an important reason. After a long development process, the artist has accumulated profound experience in the characteristics of metal materials and artistic expression, and created modern expressive metal stone sculpture with novel forms and various categories.
Cast metal stone carving, referred to as cast copper stone carving, is the most widely used form of metal material in modern stone carving. Stone carving works are made by high-temperature melting casting molding technology. As early as the ancient Bronze Age, human beings had already skillfully used the casting method to make utensils and stone sculpture . China has a long history of casting metal stone sculpture , whether it is cast bronze or cast iron crafts, leaving us with a large number of exquisite cast metal stone sculpture . The early cast metal stone sculpture were mainly made of bronze, brass, and iron, with fine surface treatment and complicated technological process, which can show a deep and masculine metal beauty. However, stone carving works with realistic and concrete themes have long dominated the field of stone carving. When the works have distinct concrete images and narratives, people pay more attention to the concrete concepts and images undertaken by stone sculpture than to the external beauty of materials. The beauty of materials becomes a secondary factor in a subordinate position, and materials do not have independent aesthetic meaning. Modern foundry stone sculpture tend to be imagery and abstract in subject matter, and the concrete content undertaken by stone sculpture has degenerated, and is no longer at the core of aesthetic activities. The material language and aesthetic feeling have become an important link for people to appreciate stone sculpture , and the beauty of materials has become an inevitable attribute of cast metal stone carving works.
