Modern sculpture development in China

The traditional religious modern sculpture has been in a period of decline after the beginning of the 20th century, folk small sculptures prosperity, but failed to become mainstream. 1911 Revolution, the youth went to the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and other countries to study sculpture.

Before and after the May Fourth Movement to the 1930s, there are more art youth has been to countries such as Canada, France, Japan, Belgium, studied sculpture. They Returned sculpture exhibition held to promote the development of China rack modern sculpture. Most of them are engaged in arts education, to become a pioneer of the modern Chinese sculpture. Chinese sculpture art colleges teaching began in 1920, the annual Shanghai Art College set up a sculpture Division, after the College of Art in Hangzhou, Peking College of Art have been established for the modern sculpture Department, Division.

Creation and promising a statue to commemorate Sun Yat-sen and other democratic revolution plastic system and design of the Sino-Japanese War Heroes Monument. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the sculpture made in china has a huge development, various art institutions generally establish Sculpture Department and selected international students and graduate students to study in the Soviet Union. Central Academy of Fine Arts has two sculpture classes held in the 1950s and early 1960s and also set up a sculpture factories in China in 1956. Beijing Tiananmen Square, Monument to the People's Heroes completed in April 1958, provides important experience for building large-scale urban monument sculpture. In February 1982, the Chinese Artists Association Sculpture Construction in China's major cities, and the approval of the State Council, in August of the same year, by the Urban Construction and Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Artists' Association jointly held a national urban the sculpture planning, academic conferences, and the establishment of a national urban sculpture Planning Group and the National Sculpture Committee, to the leadership of the National Urban Sculpture, Sculpture activities thus entered a new stage.

Metal sculpture worker summed up in 1958 during the "Great Leap Forward", regardless of artistic quality, excessive build large-scale sculpture and during the "Cultural Revolution" to create a leader like two lessons, put forward a positive and steady approach: make plans to carry out pilot projects, and gradually built a batch of urban sculptures, including Monument metal sculpture, garden decorative sculpture. From the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949 to 1984, has established 326 large outdoor metal sculptures, most of which is the creation in 1976, played an important role in changing urban landscape landscaping.