Contemporary Inspiration From Sichuan Traditional Sculpture

"To create with China' s characteristics combined highly Realism and Chinese folk techniques" is one of the most important schools in Chinese modern sculpture.This school can trace its root back to last century early,when Chinese art students in France considered the style as their own personal expression.But as the spirit of "Mao Zedong's Talks at Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art" became the national ideology,the school finally dominated in Chinese modern sculpture.In the context of globalization of capitalist markets, Chinese traditional culture contributes a lot to prevent the destruction of native culture.But,some works failed in misread of traditional spirit.The paper focused on Sichuan's traditional sculpture in history,and explores the relationship between the Realism,Sur-realism and Sichuan traditional sculptures, with majority of cases including Bronze Mask from Sanxingdui(from 2000 B.C.to 1200 B.C),Pictorial Stone and Brick(Han dynasty),Dazu Rock Carving(from Tang dynasty to Song dynasty),Five-hundred Arhats clay sculpture in Kunming(Qing dynasty ),and clay sculpture Rent Collecting Courtyard in 1960s which is the first one that owns the worldwide influence in Chinese sculpture history. Multi-characteristics of these artifacts show that Chinese sculpture is strongly influenced in style by both western and Chinese traditional culture.The global media are largely interpreting the original of Chinese traditional culture." What is tradition?"," How to ground in tradition? ".One can understand the spirit of China traditional sculpture from unique viewpoint of the world and life.The paper try to express that tradition is changing with the times but the Chinese unique characteristic never lose while strongly influenced by western modern culture.To some degree,traditionalist means revisionist.Only open to both west and east,to tradition and modern civilization,can survive Chinese contemporary sculpture.