山川之精华 人文之精美 略谈玉雕的造型艺术

Brief discussion for the plastic arts of jade carving

玉雕,亦称之谓玉器。顾名思义,即以玉石为材料雕琢的物件、器皿等艺术造型。它是中国工艺美术中与石器同始的雕刻艺术品。在新石器的晚期就有了玉制的工具;殷商时代已有大量的玉制品从战国至汉代,玉器在艺术造型上有了很大的提高：清代的玉器,琢玉的工艺技巧日臻成熟;直至当代,玉雕随着工业技术的发展,生产工具的革新,制作者文化素质的提高,则更是鬼斧神工,巧夺天工。数千年来,勤劳聪颖的中国人创作的玉雕工艺品伴随着中国文化绵亘不断．异彩纷呈。

Jade carving,known as China's special arts and crafts variety,results from the Chinese social development for thousands of years,cultural integration and thorough demonstration of common people' s intelligence and wisdom.Plastic arts of jade carving should be organic unity of contents,art,technology,material,function and value.which is highly representative.Jade carving is the perfect blend of various factors in plastic arts.