Similarities and differences between stone crafts and stone mountain carving

stone mountain carving refers to the art of using various carved and engraved stones to create visible and palpable artistic images with a certain space, so as to reflect social life and express the artist's aesthetic feelings, aesthetic emotions and aesthetic ideals. There are many different art carriers for stone sculpture, such as stone crafts, stone sculpture, stone animals and some abstract stone sculpture.

People often classify according to the nature and use of stone carving works, and each Stone Carving handicraft exudes a unique artistic charm. Among them, the figure stone carving can be divided into ordinary stone carving and religious figure stone art. Religious stone carving mainly refers to Buddha statue stone art. Buddha Statue stone art Stone Traditional Chinese art, religious temples often enshrine a variety of stone crafts, common ones are stone sculpture of Guanyin, stone sculpture of Sakyamuni Buddha, stone sculpture of Maitreya Buddha, and stone sculpture of Arhats.
The shape and appearance of these stone crafts have their own characteristics. The stone art of Buddha statues exudes a heavy Buddhist culture, and also reveals a quiet, peaceful and solemn Buddhist atmosphere. The appearance of these stone crafts will have different art forms in different periods, such as ancient stone crafts and modern stone crafts, there is a big difference in image shaping and carving techniques.
When masons made stone crafts, although they all created with reference to the details described in Buddhist scriptures, the shaping of the shape of stone crafts still included people's imagination to a certain extent. There are more or less differences in the stone art of Buddha statues such as Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva or Maitreya Buddha statues, or the supreme stone Sakyamuni Buddha all over the country, no matter in appearance or carving technology.
It is these differences in appearance that also reflect the different folk cultures in different places, as well as people's different understandings of gods, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. But ordinary stone sculpture are very different from stone crafts, because stone sculpture are generally familiar or real celebrity stone statues or great man stone statues.
Therefore, all kinds of stone sculpture that we see every day can be obtained from clear photos or reliable historical documents. Modified, but try to restore its true appearance as completely as possible
The restoration of authenticity should be a big difference between ordinary stone sculpture and stone crafts. When stone carving craftsmen carve modern stone sculpture, the requirements for restoring similarity become very high, and the figure, appearance and clothing cannot be increased too much. decoration, or to increase the arbitrary imagination of the creator. For example, for our common stone sculpture of Confucius, the appearance of all manufacturers is almost the same, and there may be slight differences in the carving process or the degree of fineness.