近百年前,在上海这座各国文化人、艺术家云集的大都市中诞生了一场涵盖视觉艺术各个领域、辐射全国的新美术运动。新国画运动、洋画运动、新兴木刻运动……这些耳熟能详的艺术运动一时间此起彼伏,相继登上历史舞台,成为上海城市文化的一部分。19世纪下半叶,洋务运动催生了中国近代第一批留学生。之后的数十年间,正是由于这些中国留学生的存在,国外的新文化、新思想得以在中华大地传播开来。这一时期的留学生中美术留学生所占比例较少,研习雕塑者更是寥寥无几,造成了中国现代雕塑在相当长时段内的真空状态。 Nearly a hundred years ago, a new art movement covering all fields of visual arts and radiating the whole nation was born in Shanghai, a metropolis where cultural figures and artists from all over the world gathered. New Chinese Painting Movement, Western Painting Movement, Emerging Woodcut ... These well-known art movements come and go one after another, and have boarded the stage of history one after another to become part of Shanghai’s urban culture. In the second half of the 19th century, the Westernization Movement gave birth to the first batch of Chinese students in modern times. After decades, it is precisely because of the existence of these Chinese students that foreign new culture and new ideas can be spread in China. During this period, the proportion of foreign students studying art and art in China was relatively small, and there were only a few sculptors studying it, which caused the vacuum state of Chinese modern sculpture for a long period of time.