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Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly stone, metal, glass, or wood. Some sculptures are created directly by finding or carving; others are assembled, built up and fired, welded, molded, or cast. Sculptures are often painted. A person who creates sculptures is called a sculptor.Because sculpture involves the use of materials that can be moulded or modulated, it is considered one of the plastic arts. The majority of public art is sculpture. Many sculptures together in a garden setting may be referred to as a sculpture garden.Some common types of sculptures are:* Free-standing sculpture, sculpture that is surrounded on all sides, except the base, by space. It is also known as sculpture "in the round", and is meant to be viewed from any angle.* Sound sculpture* Light sculpture* Jewellery* Relief - the sculpture is still attached to a background; types are bas-relief, alto-relievo, and sunken-relief* Site-specific art* Kinetic sculpture - involves aspects of physical motiono Fountain - the sculpture is designed with moving watero Mobile (see also Calder's Stabiles.)* Statue - representationalist sculpture depicting a specific entity, usually a person, event, animal or objecto Bust - representation of a person from the chest upo Equestrian statue - typically showing a significant person on horseback* Stacked art - a form of sculpture formed by assembling objects and 'stacking' them
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"Yellow River Mother" is a stone sculpture artwork representing the mother river of the Chinese nation - the Yellow River.
翻译：《黄河母亲》是表现中华民族母亲河——黄河的石质雕塑艺术品。
It is located in the middle section of Binhe Road on the south bank of the Yellow River in Lanzhou City and on the north side of Xiaoxihu Park. It is 6 meters long, 2.2 meters wide and 2.6 meters high. More than 40 tons.
翻译：位于兰州市黄河南岸的滨河路中段、小西湖公园北侧，长6米，宽2.2米，高2.6米，总重40余吨。
The work consists of "mother" and "male boy", which symbolize the mother of the Yellow River and the descendants of the Chinese. The work won the Excellence Award in the first national urban sculpture program evaluation.
翻译：作品由"母亲"和"男婴"组成构图，分别象征了黄河母亲和华夏子孙。作品在全国首届城市雕塑方案评比中获优秀奖。
“Yellow River Mother” has now become the iconic sculpture of Lanzhou and also represents the image of Lanzhou. Author He E, a famous sculptor in Gansu.
翻译：“黄河母亲”现已经成为兰州的标志性雕塑，也代表着兰州形象。作者何鄂，甘肃著名雕塑家。
扩展资料：
黄河母亲像位于兰州市黄河南岸的滨河路中段、小西湖公园北侧，是目前全国诸多表现中华民族的母亲河中最漂亮的一尊。具有很高的艺术价值。
雕塑由甘肃著名的雕塑家何鄂女士创作，长6米，宽2.2米，高2.6米，总重40余吨，由“母亲”和一“男婴”组成构图。分别象征了哺育中华民族生生不息、不屈不挠的黄河母亲，和快乐幸福、茁壮成长的华夏子孙。
该雕塑构图简洁，寓意深刻，反映了甘肃悠远的历史文化。 神态慈祥，身躯颀长匀称，曲线优美，微微含笑，抬头微曲右臂，仰卧于波涛之上，右侧依偎着一裸身男婴（象征中华人民），头微左顾，举首憨 黄河母亲像笑，显得顽皮可爱。
雕塑构图洗练，寓意深刻。雕塑下基座上刻有水波纹和鱼纹图案，源自甘肃古老彩陶的原始图案。同时，水波纹和鱼纹也反映了黄河流域的先民们对自然现象敏锐的观察力，说明了中国人内在的实力。
雕塑前面另立一全国青少年地学夏令营于1984年8月所立“献给中华民族的摇篮——黄河母亲”碑。
参考资料来源：百度百科-黄河母亲
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The plastic arts are a kind of sculpture. Also known as carving, are carved, engraved, plastic three methods to create a general term. Refers to a variety of plastic materials (such as plaster, resin, clay, etc.) or can be carved,rigid material (such as wood, stone, metal, pieces of jade, agate, etc.), create visual space must be Touch the image of the art in order to reflect the social life, to express the feelings of the artist's aesthetic, aesthetic emotion, aesthetic ideals of art. Yes sculpture are carved, engraved, plastic three methods to create a general term. Sculpture Sculpture, carved by reducing substances in the material can be carved, the plastic material through the stack of material by plastic to achieve the purpose of artistic creation.yuandiao, relief andtoudiao(stencil carving) is the basic form. At the same environment with a group of co-expression of relief yuandiaoor subject content of a group of birds called. The emergence and development of sculpture and human activity is closely related to the production, at the same time, by the time the various religious, philosophical, such as the direct influence of social ideology. In humans is still in the Old Stone Age, it appears the original stone, such as gudiao. Are a relatively permanent sculpture art, ancient history after a lot of things have gone scouring, ancient sculpture on the estate, in a sense, the image of the history of mankind. Consider the concept of traditional sculpture are static, visual, tactile the three-dimensional objects, sculptures, through recourse to the image of vision of the space to reflect the reality, and thus be considered the most typical of the plastic arts, static art and space art. With the development of science and technology and people's changing perceptions in the modern art emerged in the four-dimensional anti-traditional sculpture, five-dimensional sculpture, sound and light sculpture, dynamic, such as sculpture and soft sculpture. This is because of the emergence of Einstein's theory of relativity, Newton's theory by breaking the world set up to change people's Space and Time, to make sculpture on a higher level of awareness and performance of the world, and a breakthrough three-dimensional, visual, and static the form of multi-dimensional space-time to explore the mentality.
