彩塑是泥土塑造与色彩描绘相结合的雕塑艺术门类.就其物质材料而言,泥土是低廉松散的,颜色是单调的,它们都不如美玉那样价值连城,都不象宝石那样晶莹闪亮,但人们利用泥土和颜色,在自己的劳动和斗争实践中,却把二者很好地结合,创造了物质文明和美的艺术品.这不仅可以追溯到原始时期出土的土俑、彩陶,或三千年前殷墟出土的男女奴隶俑,以及常施以粉彩的木制的楚俑、陶制的汉俑和使塑与彩的结合更臻发展与成熟的隋唐寺院庙堂的偶像等,还有近代著名的“泥人张”彩塑.早期彩塑作品多结合民俗、宗教;而“泥人张”则多取材于历史故事、社会风俗、劳动人民的现实生活,从中可以得见先辈和艺人们所遗留给我们的那些或古拙质 Sculptures are the art of sculpture combined with clay and color painting, and in terms of their materials, the soil is cheap and loose, the colors are monotonous, none of them is as valuable as the gemstone, By using the soil and the color, people combine well the two in their own labor and struggle practice to create a material civilization and a beautiful artwork.This can not only be traced back to the unearthed figurines of the primitive period, painted pottery, or three thousand years ago The male and female slave figurines unearthed in Yin Ruins, as well as the wooden figurines of the pastel, the figurines of the Han dynasty and the idols of the Sui and Tang monastery temples that have made the combination of plastic and color more mature, and the famous modern “Clay Man” is a color-and-plastic sculpture, which is a combination of folklore and religion in early works of color painting, while Clay Man is mostly based on historical stories, social customs, working people’s real life, from which the ancestors and entertainers left behind us Or ancient quality