Body Sculpture

With development of society and advance of technology, the traditional meaning of sculpture has changed. What's the difference between sculpture and other arts? What's the advantage of sculpture as one of the art expressions? My advisor Prof. Sui Jianguo always told us, as an artist, we need to keep thinking about the origin of art and rethinking our artistic creation. He came up with an inspired idea, that the artistic creation could start from recording and accumulating the experiences of our feeling and perception which has something to do with our body, and then proceed artistic experiments to find some possibilities or inspiration from these experiences. This idea is totally new to me, and it stimulated my interest to study Body and Sculpture, which is also the topic of this paper.The paper first elaborated different meanings of body from several perspectives including philosophy, medical anatomy, and art. Then, through comparison with art of painting, this paper will demonstrate that body and perception is the origin of sculpture. The third part of this paper will inspect the body in respective context including body and time, body and space, and body in daily life, with an analysis of representative artworks in art history.Although its classification is very simple, this paper is trying to establish a new way to understand the art of sculpture which is based on perception of the body, and a new idea about sculpture creation. That's the meaning of this paper. For myself, this paper gave me an opportunity to think and organize the thoughts about art and creation.