What are the two types of ancient sculptures in China?

First, from the production process, sculpture can be divided into sculpture and plastic.

1. Carving is to cut off and chisel off the redundant parts from a complete and solid blank, such as stone carving, wood carving and jade carving.

2. Plastics are connected by bonding materials to form the required shapes, such as clay sculptures and pottery sculptures.

Second, sculpture can be divided into memorial sculpture, architectural decoration sculpture, urban garden sculpture, religious sculpture, mausoleum sculpture and exhibition sculpture according to the theme.

Thirdly, from the form of expression, sculpture can be divided into round carving and relief.

1. The circular sculpture is a three-dimensional sculpture that is not attached to any background and can be viewed from all directions.

2. Relief is a raised artistic image carved on a plane. The technique of expression depends on volume and structure.

Extended data:

The emergence and development of sculpture is closely related to human production activities, and it is also directly influenced by social ideologies such as religion and philosophy in various times.

When humans were still in the Paleolithic Age, primitive stone carvings and bone carvings appeared. Sculpture is a relatively permanent art. Traditionally, sculpture is a static, visible and touchable three-dimensional object, which reflects reality with the help of visual space images, so it is considered as the most typical plastic arts, static arts and space arts.

With the development of science and technology and the change of people's ideas, anti-traditional four-dimensional sculpture, five-dimensional sculpture, acousto-optic sculpture, dynamic sculpture and soft sculpture have appeared in modern art.

This is because Einstein's theory of relativity broke through the world view established by Newton's theory, changed people's view of time and space, made sculpture art know and express the world from a higher level, broke through the three-dimensional, visual and static form, and explored the multi-dimensional time and space mentality.

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