Research About The Present Situation Of Nanjing Contemporary Urban Landscape Sculpture

In <The Chinese Sculpture history>Sicheng Liang once said:" Sculpture is the beginningof art.".Sculpture is the product of human spirit, knowledge, and also Labor. Urban landscapesculpture can decorate and beautify the city, and make city residents to enjoy their life. Itrepresents the wonderful sprit of a city. From urban landscape sculpture, we can understand thesocial economy, politics, culture, history and the development of the city. There is no doubt thaturban landscape sculpture is the excellent environment art which can the most reflect thecharacteristics of public art. The comfortable urban space shaped by urban landscape sculpture,can not only beautify the environment, enrich people’s spiritual life, but also exert a subtleaesthetic educational impact on the people. Urban landscape sculpture is a significant symbol ofa city’s quality and positioning, which is also a excellent finishing point for the urban landscape.Nanjing has a long history and profound culture. The six dynasties the ancient capital ofhistory, has left the city a very thick humanistic accumulation and cultural traditions, give thecity a peculiar to the ancient capital of however temperament. And the geographic location ofthe jiangnan water, added a gentle and lovely for Nanjing outside proudly.Firm and soft, thephase of economic. This is the biggest characteristic compared with other ancient capital cityNanjing and highlight. At the same time, also for Nanjing urban culture has added more content,make its contain more abundant. Entered the new period, the location decision of the Nanjingearlier contact with foreign culture, is influenced by foreign culture shock, and volatile one ofthe cities. And this kind of contact between the culture and art, impact, collision, on the city’shumanistic spirit, art culture has injected fresh blood, add new connotation meaning at the sametime, the original cultural tradition, historical context and caused great influence.This topic summarizes the traditional sculpture techniques, the form of sculpture, and thedefinition of sculpture. Through combining the development of the contemporary urbanlandscape sculpture, the author tried to find the new ways which can be adapted to thedevelopment of urban landscape sculpture in present complicated situation, such as the newforms of evolution, the new materials of usage, the new techniques of expression, and the newconnotation. The new art definition and the role of the contemporary urban landscape sculpturein modern society are also mentioned in this topic. The author used the inheritance and carryforward eyesight to treat the growing development of contemporary urban landscape sculpture.