How Headstones are Engraved

China's portrait sculpture in the real sense was introduced from the West in this century. The wind of the "54" new cultural movement incidentally brought portrait sculpture into our country. After returning to China after finishing their studies, the earliest old-guard who studied abroad successively created a variety of Headstones portrait works reflecting revolutionary pioneers, patriots and cultural celebrities, embracing the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal progressive cultural movement that was taking place in China and making contributions to the progressive cause of national liberation. 

The real climax of Chinese headstones portraiture is the fifty years since the founding of new China. The talents who stayed in France and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, together with those who stayed in The Soviet Union in the 1950s, combined with the specific conditions of China, jointly constructed the Chinese realism system. Although the eight art academies are different from each other, they all belong to one big system, which is the realism system often mentioned in the past. This system first highlights the solid realistic basic skills, as well as the creation method from life, above life. The creation of monumental portraits is one of the main teaching courses in all art colleges and universities. It is worth mentioning here that while introducing western realistic sculpture, the older generation of sculptors advocated, promoted and taught some of the essence of traditional national sculpture, and made unremitting efforts for the nationalization of image and portrait sculpture. The students trained by such a system completely meet the needs of new China's social and cultural construction. Sculptors created a great number of made contributions for the society's heroes, model, workers, peasants, soldiers, intellectuals, portrait of the ethnic minorities, and of course also created a large number of the image of the leader, especially the cultural revolution swept across the country, MAO zedong statue heat and model sculpture the rent house, the serfs angry class education around the sculpture, The team of Chinese realistic sculpture and the realistic system have been well transferred to the new era of reform and opening up.  

The era of reform and opening up has provided unprecedented broad space for the development of Chinese Headstones for Graves culture and art. All kinds of thoughts and schools compete with each other and influence and collide with each other, forming the magnificent landscape of contemporary Chinese culture and art, and sculpture is the same. It can also be said that Chinese sculpture is experiencing an unprecedented good period, as well as an unprecedented great impact and great change. Portrait art works in the new era, as one of the landscapes, still bloom their own brilliance. First of all, due to the great development of social economy, in response to the needs of the construction of two civilizations around the world, a large number of Chinese historical heroes, scientists, cultural celebrities and other outdoor commemorative images for the majority of enthusiastic portrait sculpture artists to provide a great opportunity to show their skills, and then they create a large number of portrait sculpture works for participating in various exhibitions. Portrait creation in the new era tends to be humanized and internalized, and pays more attention to the individuality of the object, which is in line with contemporary society's concern for humanism and humanity.  There is no doubt that under the strong impact of the new trend of thought and new schools, the situation of traditional realism dominating the world has been dissolved. Portrait sculpture may be easily regarded as too old, too traditional, but the author here believes that no matter at any time, as long as there are people, portrait sculpture will have the value of existence; At the same time, the author also believes that contemporary Chinese portrait sculpture should and can get out of the dilemma of "old" and keep up with "modernization".