Shang Hui

DOI: 10.64212/IUKA2875

The white marble group sculpture Faith, which stands on the west square of the Museum of the Communist Party of China, is a monumental example of public art, embodying the ideological spirit of the new era. As the chief artist of this group sculpture, Lv Pinchang led the sculpture team from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) through three years of arduous exploration and made numerous revisions, so that the work not only typically portrays the numerous heroic models who fought bravely for faith in the hundred-year history of the Party, but also demonstrates the extremely powerful faith force inherent in the hundred-year struggle of the Party through the solemn expressions of those swearing allegiance to the Party that are continuously presented in the group sculpture. This group sculpture has addressed several difficult problems well, such as properly handling the individualized image depiction of heroic prototypes, the connection and organic combination of numerous figures in the group sculpture from front to back, and making the fist-clenching and swearing postures both full of momentum and mutually responsive, thus creating the overall sense of movement in this large-scale group sculpture.