Ms.Hadley and us went to an exhibition called Wu Weishan’s Cultural Figures Sculpture Galley on December 4th at the Nanjing University, so we saw a lot of sculptures there, and they were many Wu Weishan's artworks(some of them were he made with his assistants).The artworks are all contemporary, but it represent the traditional Chinese life
The are also many sculptures in the outside of the hall where the exhibition was held. I walked outside to look at more Wu Weishan’s sculpture. Suddenly, I saw a sculpture Which was one of the biggest sculpture outside. It was a old man’s sculpture, its eyes just like an eagle looked at me directly seems nothing could stop him. A few minutes later I knew the sculpture’s name is Lao-tzu. It looks messy, because its surface is very rough so it doesn't look well and not as beautiful as other well-known sculptures. Actually I don't like it at very beginning, because of its ugly skin, so it didn't give me a very good impression，but finally I found I was wrong.
Wu Weishan didn't want to imitate other famous artists' style to describe Lao-tze. He just did what he wants to do. He didn't want to make this sculpture as real as possible, he just want to show this wise old person who made huge influence to Chinese culture. This sculpture was made of metal and its colour is dark brown. I just like have seen the years Lao-tzu past. It shows this sage's hard life with poor, supplanting in the government and other unfair things happened on him.
Lao-tzu's clothes looks very dirty but to be surprise, this clothes matched him very much. The Bible said when Noah built the Ark he also wear bad clothes. Maybe the bad clothes is one of the symbol of the wisdom people.
Actually, this sculpture doesn't have the body. It was empty like a room. In the inder surface, Wu Weishan carved the first chapter of Taoteching on it. The empty body means nothing. Nothing was the spirit of Taoism, and the reason why he carve the Taoteching on the inder surface means the Taoteching is the article which described the Taoism. It’s very cleaver way to figurative object to discribe the abstract concept.
Some people said the Lao-tzu’s sculpture is very ugly, the sculpture’s surface is full of scars. Yes, I admit most of the famous sculpture like Michelangelo’s David or others are all perfect. We can’t find any of scars or flaws on it, but I say there used different ways to represent. There are different but all perfect.
In conclusion, this sculpture is very meaningful and has a great value, it's one of the treasure of arts and inspire me a lot.
The are also many sculptures in the outside of the hall where the exhibition was held. I walked outside to look at more Wu Weishan’s sculpture. Suddenly, I saw a sculpture Which was one of the biggest sculpture outside. It was a old man’s sculpture, its eyes just like an eagle looked at me directly seems nothing could stop him. A few minutes later I knew the sculpture’s name is Lao-tzu. It looks messy, because its surface is very rough so it doesn't look well and not as beautiful as other well-known sculptures. Actually I don't like it at very beginning, because of its ugly skin, so it didn't give me a very good impression，but finally I found I was wrong.
Wu Weishan didn't want to imitate other famous artists' style to describe Lao-tze. He just did what he wants to do. He didn't want to make this sculpture as real as possible, he just want to show this wise old person who made huge influence to Chinese culture. This sculpture was made of metal and its colour is dark brown. I just like have seen the years Lao-tzu past. It shows this sage's hard life with poor, supplanting in the government and other unfair things happened on him.
Lao-tzu's clothes looks very dirty but to be surprise, this clothes matched him very much. The Bible said when Noah built the Ark he also wear bad clothes. Maybe the bad clothes is one of the symbol of the wisdom people.
Actually, this sculpture doesn't have the body. It was empty like a room. In the inder surface, Wu Weishan carved the first chapter of Taoteching on it. The empty body means nothing. Nothing was the spirit of Taoism, and the reason why he carve the Taoteching on the inder surface means the Taoteching is the article which described the Taoism. It’s very cleaver way to figurative object to discribe the abstract concept.
Some people said the Lao-tzu’s sculpture is very ugly, the sculpture’s surface is full of scars. Yes, I admit most of the famous sculpture like Michelangelo’s David or others are all perfect. We can’t find any of scars or flaws on it, but I say there used different ways to represent. There are different but all perfect.
In conclusion, this sculpture is very meaningful and has a great value, it's one of the treasure of arts and inspire me a lot.
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