Sculpture is divided into full relief, relief, openwork. Sculpture in the round at any point of view, is considered the best performance characteristics of sculpture art forms. Relief is divided into high relief, thin relief, the relief, concave relief. A different form of

   Sculpture in the round is fully three-dimensional characteristics of the audience to appreciate it from all sides. If you are familiar with the sculpture, "Liu Hulan", from the front to see is their heads held high, stiff upper lip, glaring at the enemy, unyielding image. In the side, the audience can only see the right hand and left hand clenched fists, gesture shown by Liu Hulan inner anger, and anxious smash the old world, swept away the enemy's spirit. The back is relatively simple, only to see the wind flowing and intertwined with the hair and drapery. In this way, viewers can see the sculpture from all angles all the sides to form the overall sense of artistic images.


Relief in the form of a greater difference with the sculpture in the round, such as Tiananmen Square, Beijing's "People's Heroes Monument" in the monument under Xu Mizuo, seat of the surrounding area is decorated with 10 white marble sculpture, which is relief. There Henan Gong county, "the Queen bowing map", is a complex composition, the characters numerous times Eastern Wei rich decorative relief. In particular, architectural and furniture decoration sculpture mostly relief. Application of a wide range of relief, because use of different methods and the art of dealing in performance is also varied. But regardless of what kind of relief, the audience can not see around, mainly from the positive appreciation. Relief features a flat bottom (flat slab or wood pile) on the shape or engraving of the image, the performance of object, the size of the same length and width ratio, similar to painting body contours. Before and after the volume (thickness) should be compressed. Therefore, relief carvings and paintings in a range of art forms between the two. It uses compressed form of the ups and downs (concave), turn face different directions and different dark contrast caused by smooth illusion and perspective, hierarchical relationship to the performance of three-dimensional image and sense of space. To "the People's Heroes Monument," one relief, "54 Patriotic Movement" as an example to illustrate: this piece of embossed characters, lively and has a three-dimensional image, which for many reasons. Such as relief in the back of two women before the chest, shoulders, abdomen, it is because the shape of the three different directions by the light of different people feel chest bumps, as did a three-dimensional sculpture in the round, which is caused by light, the illusion of light and dark contrast effect (in fact the volume is not so prominent). Relations in the perspective of relief similar to painting, but differences between them. Such as distributing flyers to the workers in front of young women, her left hand and left foot is through the perspective to performance, but not the same as painting on a plane, while front (concave) of the volume. Relief in the level is high or low volume before and after the run. Such as young women, workers, students, and standing on a stool for agitation propaganda of the intellectuals is the highest level; behind the background, such as Tiananmen Square, Chinese table, the red flag is the last layer; other characters are the middle layer. Of course, figures and figures interspersed between the before and after, the same level can not be mechanical like a staircase. Relief methods of handling and performance is different from painting and sculpture in the round they are different, has its own laws.