The Humanistic Spirit in Sculptor’s Work (on the Example of Li Xiangqun’s work)

Abstract

Li Xiangqun, the famous Chinese sculptor, managed to evolve his creative style developing a confident and fine ability to create forms, a special and distinctive perspective on reality, skillfully mastering the refined expressive language of sculpture and creating sculptural works filled with spiritual value, the spirit of the times and a sense of humanism. In this paper, the importance of humanistic factors in the fine sculptural art is emphasized by analyzing a part of Li Xiangqun’s works, transferring the experience of understanding the style and power of involvement of Li Xiangqun’s sculpture to the reader, as well as the experience of sensory feelings of humanistic elements in Li Xiangqun’s work. The embodiment of humanistic values in the material form is the spirit and quintessence of figurative sculpture, this is what distinguishes figurative sculpture as a phenomenon from the refined basic image of reality in the form of sculpture. This spirit is the parameter with which it is necessary to correlate the sculptor’s work. The works of Li Xiangqun require the highest attention to ourselves, they are a classic example of the embodiment of the elements of humanism in sculpture. Li Xiangqun has been universally recognized as a leader and devotee of contemporary Chinese fine sculpture; he has made an indisputable contribution to the development of modern Chinese fine sculpture and its humanistic spirit.