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Steel Literary Sculptures

Zheng Lu Creates These Steel Sculptures Containing Chinese Characters

— December 30, 2013 — Art & Design
Remarkable sculptor Zheng Lu is the artist behind these breath-taking steel sculptures. Each of these impressive artworks, upon closer inspection, appear to be covered in Chinese characters. Lu picked out poems and exerts from various Chinese texts and plastered them on these stunning sculptures.

Lu's steel sculptures differ greatly in terms of content, ranging from circus elephants to splashing bodies of water. These intricate artworks were cleverly covered with texts and poems that reflect the nature of the pieces themselves. For example, Lu's splashing water sculpture has been plastered with lines from a poem called 'Playing with Water.'

Zheng Lu's impressive sculptures come across as celebrations of Chinese art and literature. They beautifully combine literary works and detailed sculptures in a way that's really moving. These eye-catching artworks illustrate lovely poems and interesting texts with steel.
Trend Themes
1. Literary Sculptures - The combination of literature and sculpture creates opportunities to disrupt the art industry by bringing in elements of storytelling and imagination.
2. Multilingual Art - Incorporating multiple languages in artwork presents a chance to disrupt the art industry by creating unique pieces that cater to diverse audiences with different culture and language preferences.
3. Poetry as Art - Using poetry as a medium for art creates an opportunity to disrupt the art industry by inspiring a new wave of creativity that blends the metaphoric and the abstract with realism.
Industry Implications
1. Art - There is an opportunity to disrupt the art industry by integrating and showcasing unique combinations of mediums that cater to a wider audience.
2. Literary - There is an opportunity to disrupt the literary industry by exploring new modes of expression through the medium of art, creating a new type of storytelling that is dynamic and captivating.
3. Culture and Heritage - There is an opportunity to disrupt the culture and heritage industry by creating unique artworks that celebrate different cultures and traditions, inspire interest and curiosity and promote cross-cultural understanding.
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