人物雕塑在中国具有悠久的历史
人物雕塑在中国具有悠久的历史,且并不因时代和社会及国家的更替而中断。中国春秋战国人物雕塑开始出现,继商、西周之后进一步繁荣与发展。人物雕塑在西方国家历史也很悠久。从古希腊、罗马到中世纪、文艺复兴及17、18、19世纪,直到20世纪,几乎遍及各国的大小城市,成为城市建设及其文化的重要组成。在中国,虽然秦始皇下令收缴天下兵器,运至都城咸阳销毁,并铸成12个各重24万斤的大铜人,排列在阿房宫殿前,但并不似西方那样自觉将其作为城市的组成部分。在以后的漫长岁月中,也未出现类似西方的人物雕塑。直到20世纪上半叶才在一些经济、文化比较发达的城市,如上海、天津、成都、广州、重庆等地建立了一些真正意义上的人物雕塑。50年代特别是80年代以后,伴随着改革开放和经济、文化的发展,人物雕塑在许多大中小城市如雨后春笋般出现,其中不乏优秀之作。在人物雕塑创作十分活跃的情况下,80年代初成立了全国城市雕塑规划组和全国城市雕塑艺术委员会,负责全国城市雕塑的规划、筹备、协调及创作工作,从此中国的人物雕塑创作进入了一个新的发展时期。
Figure sculpture has a long history in China, and it is not interrupted by the change of times, society and country. Character sculptures of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States began to appear in China, and further flourished and developed after the Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties. Figure sculpture has a long history in Western countries. From ancient Greece, Rome to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, to the 20th century, almost all cities and towns in various countries have become an important part of urban construction and culture. In China, although Qin Shihuang ordered the world's weapons to be collected, transported to Xianyang, the capital, and destroyed, and cast into 12 large bronze men weighing 240,000 Jin each, which were arranged in front of the Arfang Palace, they did not consciously regard them as part of the city as the West did. In the long years that followed, there was no figure sculpture similar to that of the West. It was not until the first half of the 20th century that some truly meaningful sculptures were established in some economically and culturally developed cities, such as Shanghai, Tianjin, Chengdu, Guangzhou and Chongqing. In the 1950s, especially after the 1980s, with the reform and opening up and the development of economy and culture, figure sculptures have sprung up in many large, medium and small cities, including many excellent works. In the early 1980s, the National Urban Sculpture Planning Group and the National Urban Sculpture Art Committee were set up to take charge of the planning, preparation, coordination and creation of the national urban sculpture. Since then, the creation of Chinese figure sculpture has entered a new period of development.