stone crafts are an art form between round stone art and painting, and their modeling languages are often integrated with each other to form a unique way of expression. Compared with round stone art, stone crafts are mostly attached to flat, inclined or arc bottom plates. Its length and width are generally constant, but its thickness must be compressed and deformed, and the outline of the body is like painting. Round sculptures can be seen from all sides, while stone crafts are mainly admired from the front.
The stone crafts is an illusion of chiaroscuro caused by compressed concave and convex surfaces, different turning surfaces and different light receiving surfaces, as well as perspective relationship, horizontal relationship between front and back, and lines expressing the three-dimensional and spatial sense of the image. So from a certain angle, it has a certain illusion like a painting, but it is similar to a round stone art, it just has a corresponding three-dimensional effect. On its base plate, some props and backgrounds can be made to create a certain atmosphere that the round stone art does not have.
The development of stone art makes the round stone art relatively independent, while the stone crafts are still immersed in the relationship between the background buildings. Round stone art has a strong and real sense of three-dimensionality and touch, and can independently and relatively completely express the complex spiritual world of an individual's life. The stone crafts attached to the ground floor make the group life richly connected, embodying the spiritual connotation of unity and order.
Since stone crafts is a type of stone art, it must first show the characteristics of stone art, express the rhythm of human body and objects, and make it show the whole life. It is not only visual, but also tactile. Utilize the advantages of the composition theme in painting art to express the content that is not easy to express in round stone art. Such as continuous plot, interspersed = overlapping of different time and space things, etc.
The carving and shaping on the plane make the stone crafts techniques have the characteristics of diversity. The restoration of the perspective of the second space, the virtual writing of background and foreground, and the modeling language of stone art itself form a stone crafts art that pays more attention to narrative. The difference between stone crafts and round sculptures lies in plane and three-dimensional, the editing space in the space of stone crafts, while the so-called editing space in painting space and the actual space of round sculptures are the limitation of editing space.
Relying on a flat background, it undercuts the tactility of the round stone art and focuses on the visual arts, sharing more of an illusionistic approach in drawing and perspective. stone crafts use the principles of painting more to deal with space and express volume. The difference in technology and form is only its exterior features. The reflected aesthetic image-that is, the inner spirit of the person reflected by the actual existence of the body is completely consistent. This is the principle of stone art and the principle of stone crafts.
