Civil Lock Plastic Arts Research

time passed by, we have formed drops of habit; much habit formed, we have summed up the experience; very rich experience summed up, we have accumulated culture; Very deep culture accumulated, we have cast a civilization behind which is the time of five thousand years of circulation.What is the acme of craft? What is the treasure of culture? What can be spreaded from generation to generation?The eternal topic of Chinese arts.Lock, closed, concealed, evasive, hoarded, the originator of materialization carrier based on the negative attitude. The long-closed seal cast brilliant rays on philosophy and the accumulation of humanistic spirit. The magical labor of ancient times took that superb skill to designate the compliance as the fundamental law, as if showing the respect to the heaven. With the power of fortitude, the lock was endowed with a new interpretation of auspiciousness.The lock is used for people since the people, As the Chinese saying goes: the road is constructed for people. In China, people have used locks for a long time. Since the prototype of lock of ancient time came into being, people began to use locks without interruption. With the development of society and all kinds of academic subjects, the practical significance of lock has already been changed and enriched and its preliminary defense function has transformed and derived many other abstract meanings, such as craft, symbol and so on. Owing to such historical background and evolutional process, lock is no longer the simple and practical tool, the interjection of humanistic spirit and history flavor make it embody the value of scientific researching artistic appreciation. That is the essence of this article. The modeling characteristics and the artistic exemplification are the essential points in this article.The article carried out comparatively detailed and thorough research on the classification, structure, handicraft, material and the external form of the traditional lock and the modern lock, as well as the present situation of lock industry. This article has been researched from mainly three aspects: the artistic value of lock, the modern concept of design and the prospects of lock. With the rapid development of society, people's mind has changed a lot accordingly. The ideological trend of pragmatism and the improvement of technology make the pragmaticalism begin to be realized by people, while its artistic effects are gradually weakened. That is really a pity in China history that is because people's values of beauty appreciation have commonly changed. The cultural values of Chinese traditional lock have been weakened by the new idea as well. While the lock enterprises in China failed to realize these new ideas, to the contrary, they copied the craft, structure and mold of Western country. Therefore the modern Chinese lock has lost the native flavor and cultural content. What is the prospect of Chinese lock? What is the relation between native culture and the development of lock? How does the tradition mix with the modernity? These are the main content being discussed in this article.There is no such a cultural element can be forgotten, just like there is no such an orphan can deeply feel the mother love. This article aims to discuss the modernity whose prerequisite is the reservation of tradition. From the angle of arts, the formative beauty of all kinds of locks is absolutely one thing that we can form one day. The long-term lack of culture would finally result in the sad consequence. Only comprehending the requirement of beauty appreciation and origin under every social background, the correct interpretation of a cultural element can be summed up perfectly. This is the reason why this article begins with the lock of Ancient China, and carries out a deep research on different kinds of phenomena influenced by different areas and times. Besides, the acme of beauty and truth of lock both in artistic and craft aspects will be analyzed in comparatively abstract methods in this article.Of course, the end of the article is still the prospects of new arts, new trend of development, new concept of humanities as well as the new mode of artistic transmission.