Peaceful Girl

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Sculpture entitled “Peaceful Girl” is a classical Chinese environmental sculpture. It portrays a beautiful, pure and kind Oriental woman. She elegantly leans on a stone, and turns her head to look at two pure doves (symbol of humankind peace). The fifi gure is carved refifi nedly and vividly, the scene is moving and the atmosphere is harmonious. This artwork fully expresses the creators’ good wish for the humankind peace. This artwork is created in commemoration of China-Japan friendship. Made in duplicate, one copy of this artwork is beside Chang’an Avenue outside Fuxingmen, Beijing. The other copy is placed in Nagasaki Peace Park in Japan.

Girl’s face

Girl’s face has typical feature of Oriental woman as follows: long hair, oval face, arch eyebrows, small nose and mouth, smile beside canthus and lip, small dimple on kind cheek and bright eyes fifi xed on the doves with love and sentimental attachment. All of these make the young girl so beautiful, kind and elegant. She is embodiment of happy life and “Goddess of Peace” blessing all people.

Environmental Sculpture

Environmental sculpture refers to sculpture created for special space. It can fall into building decoration sculpture and independent landscape sculpture. They all have commemoration importance, and demand the supplement and integration with surrounding environment in terms of form and contents.

Origin of “Peaceful Dove”

During the World War II period, Spanish painter Picasso resided in Paris. Picasso’s elderly neighbor Mish had a grandson who loved breeding dove. In 1940, Paris was seized by Hitler’s army. One day, Mish’s grandson was thrown downstairs by the German fascists, who died on the street. These cruel fascists also stabbed and killed all doves in the dove cage. Heartstricken Mish held bloody doves in both hands, and knocked on the door of Picasso’s house. He asked Picasso to draw the doves according to the alive style in order to memorize the poor grandson. With grief and indignation, Picasso drew a flfl ying dove which was the rudiment of “Peaceful Dove”. In November 1950, in commemoration of World Conference to Defend Peace, Picasso drew a dove holding olive branch in the mouth. Pablo Neruda (a famous Chilean poet) saw it, and named it “Peaceful Dove”. White and pure dove is recognized as “symbol of humankind peace”.