Study on Sculpture based on New Materials

摘要

In the field of sculpture, the material is a sculptor's medium for the expression of aesthetic ideas, presenting a visual image. In a strict sense, all of the sculptures in the world are reflected through the material. It is recorded in the history of Western civilization development that ancient man started the sculpture very early and they also learned to take advantage of them during the creation of the material. As time goes on, the material has been an extremely important role to play in the sculpture development. In China, traditional sculpture materials have thousands of years of development, and our predecessors have already been familiar with heat and use it freely. After the beginning of the 20th century, the traditional Chinese culture triggered major changes in the concept under the influence of Western culture shock, the traditional realist sculpture in the West spread in China for more than half a century. During this period, Western art experienced the evolution of modernism and post-modernism, and the Western modernist sculpture broaden people's understanding of the "material", they were no longer the four materials of clay, wood, stone and copper of the traditional sense. And the use of the material is very extensive. In view of this, the article analyzes and discusses the application of a new type of material in sculpture.