Last Thursday, Ms Hadly and Ms Bartell took us to Nanjing Museum to appreciate sculptures of a Chinese artist called Wu Weishan.
Wu Weishan is Nanjing University professor, director of the Institute of sculpture art, religion and art direction graduate school instructors. He is also a contemporary sculpture artist and his artworks are both traditional and contemporary. The most artworks were being about showing the spirit.
He created a great number of influential figures and Buddhist sculptures in the past few years. I like one of his artworks. It is Confucius statue. He created Confucius statue at Year 2006.
The main body of this artwork seems like a four-prism. This is a gap in the middle of the four-prism. Using your imagination, you will find that they form the Chinese character-“中”. This is in line with the thinking of Confucius-Doctrine of mean. This artwork consisted of bronze and it was brown on the surface with a little bit aeruginosa. The lines are all straight. And the lines are obvious and neat. The lines, shapes of this artwork are both concise, focused freehand brushwork. The kind of face of Confucius expresses his thinking of ceremony. From this we can see China is a nation with etiquette from ancient to now. At the same time, this reflects the artist’s superb artistry. From his works, I have seen that Confucius was an erudite person and I also have seen his great thinking.
The statue of Confucius put his hand close to his chest together. He just looks like a Buddha. This action makes me feel Confucius is also a humble person. He often studied more knowledge from others, not only adults, but also children. This artwork also reminded me of Confucius’ book The Analects of Confucius. One famous word, “Three-line must be my teacher.” It teaches us we must have an open mind and chest to learn from others. I think even Confucius has done so, we are not exceptions. We also need to ask questions that you don’t understand to someone can teach you without shy. The thinking of Confucius affected our Chinese People deeply from long long ago. The artist wants to tell us that although we are far away from Confucius, but we also need to learn good things from Confucius because we are Chinese.
Of course, I like this artwork because it is good for the transmission of Chinese traditional culture and national spirit. I feel this way because China is a developing country; it needs strong national spirit to maintain its developing. I think so. This artwork has the values of appreciation because it contacts Chinese long-standing cultural and people can know about China more deeply. It is also a symbol of China and Chinese culture. It contains the essence of Chinese culture.
It is interesting for visiting the exhibits of sculpture. We cannot only see a lot of different kinds of artworks, also We can learn more about the artwork, sculpture, the artist, the culture of the artworks and even the artist’s country.
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