Exploration of the Nationalization of Sculpture—A Study of Wang Bingzhao and"The Jintian Uprising"of The Monument to the People's Heroes
On September 30,1949,the proposal to build The Monument to the People's Heroes was reviewed and adopted by the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,with Wang Bingzhao being responsible for creating the relief sculpture of"Jintian Uprising".As one of the first locally trained sculptors in China,in the absence of experience in creating large-scale monumental relief sculptures,Wang and other creators had to confront the challenge of exploring the nationalization of sculptural language in monumental sculptures that inherit revolutionary historical memories.In the relief sculpture"Jintian Uprising",Wang Bingzhao integrated sculptural language inherited from the Western teaching system with traditional Chinese artistic language,and combined his personal artistic language with the overall creative requirements,marking an important attempt and breakthrough in the nationalization of modern sculpture.