Where Modern Stone Garden Statues Are Going

With the expansion of the influence of modern art, the principles of classical art are constantly being subverted, and those complicated and realistic artistic images in the past have become abstract and pure through the efforts of generations of artists. As an important part of modern art, modern Stone Garden Statues are no exception. Its form and composition are also constantly simplified. Specifically, it can be summarized into two points:

First, the purification of formal concepts. The First World War completely collapsed the old European order, and the traditions and arrogant high art were incompatible with the special and crazy era in front of us. The Dada art produced at this time crazily denied and subverted the values of all traditional art, and people began to rethink what art is. For modern Stone Garden Statues, the greatest contribution of Dada art lies in the introduction of "metal ready-mades" into stone sculptures, completely disintegrating the concept of form for centuries. Industrial components, garbage waste, ready-made products of life...they do not have any traces of artistic processing, and only carry the concept of the artist. The language of art is more pure, simple and real. Siegel, a stone sculptor of pop art, directly reproduced human body images on real people without any modification or embellishment, and placed these human bodies or portraits indiscriminately in the corners of daily life, and made stone carvings and ready-mades The details of life and life are combined into a whole stone carving, which is a new breakthrough in the concept of Stone Carving. Arte Povera, which prevailed in the 1970s, made this concept more pure. They directly used materials such as wood, stone, soil, feathers, and steel that were completely unprocessed or even raw to explore the relationship between nature and civilization. Combining and seeking the relationship between people and the environment. In this way, Arte Povera purifies the formal concept of modern Stone Garden Statues.
Second, the purification of formal language. Starting from Brancusi, the image of modern stone sculpture has gradually been simplified to only the most minimalist elements, that is, the naked shape. Constructivist stone sculptors represented by the Gabor and Pevsner brothers inherited and developed these principles. They used cold steel as the material of stone carvings, and advocated the simplicity and simplicity of geometry. Stone Garden Statues gradually became a kind of sculpture in their hands. A "pure form". Influenced by Constructivism, Minimalism, which emerged in the 1960s, pushed the formalist aesthetics of modern art to the peak and moved towards aestheticism. pure abstraction". They use emerging industrial materials (mirror stainless steel, etc.) to create simple, clear, extroverted, and undecorated forms, in order to express the impersonal, purely objective nature of their works.