Mud

"Clay" is one of the five elements of life, an important resource of human being, also a necessary element in traditional sculpture arts. However, during the developing of the modern sculpture arts, with the new materials come forth and using, the "clay" is operation becoming worse and worse, this trend overspreads in each area of modern sculpture arts, including the contemporary city sculpture arts.Also, the development of Chinese contemporary city sculpture arts is affect by this trend. New industrial materials are become more and more popular, such as, iron, steel and polyethylene. People focus on the developments of ideas, media and technique elements. In contrast, "clay" is gradually turning into a primary one-off material. It is a huge contrast, compare with its value in Chinese traditional sculpture arts.This thesis focuses on the huge contrast from the point of view of the "clay", to re-consider its meaning; to find out its ignored local culture meaning, like "dead and live", "dharma" and "interacting" after the industry and technique revolution; to throw off the blind obedience of Western trend, implement Export-oriented model, guide the development to " power struggle" and "space occupation"; from china's traditional culture, to return to the intrinsic nature and guide the creation of China's contemporary city sculpture to the path of bearing the local city's historical arts.