Stone carving on the background of exterior wall

Stone carving has a variety of design techniques, including relief, round carving, sink carving, shadow carving, engraving and openwork carving. In marble sculpting, sink carving is also known as "line carving", that is, stone art using the "water mill sink flower" carving method. This kind of carving method absorbs traditional techniques such as Chinese painting and meaning, overlapping, line modeling, scattered point perspective, etc. After the stone is polished by plane processing, it traces the pattern text, and then carves lines according to the drawing, with the thickness and depth of the lines, using shadows to reflect the three-dimensional sense. Most of these products are used for exterior wall surface decoration of buildings, with strong artistry. In addition, stone carvers from all ages also created some sculptures with various techniques, including round, floating and sinking. This kind of sculpture shows more complex content, so it adopts a comprehensive approach of floating with sinking, floating with sinking, and floating with round.

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Stone carving refers to the art of creating visible and touchable stone art of art with a certain space by using various kinds of carved and engraved stones to reflect social life and express the artist's aesthetic feelings, emotions and ideals.

Stone carvings, stone carvings and other stone crafts are generally divided into round carvings, reliefs, sunken carvings, wall carvings, hollowed out carvings (openwork carvings), line carvings, shadow carvings, micro carvings, intaglio carvings, and sun carvings according to different production methods. Each has its own characteristics and unique styles. Common stones include granite, marble, bluestone, sandstone, etc. Stone is hard and weathering resistant, and is the main material of large-scale memorial sculpture.

The history of stone carving begins with the origin of human art. It can be said that there is no art form that is more ancient than stone carving, and there is no art form that is more popular and lasting.