1. Commemorative sculptures are sculptures themed around commemorating significant events and historical figures who played important roles. They are a type of public sculpture and often become the main element controlling the environment.
2. Environmental sculptures are sculptures designed and placed to beautify specific environments.
3. Public sculptures are sculptures established in public spaces to beautify and decorate the environment. They are a type of environmental sculpture, differing from traditional environmental sculptures in their public nature. Public spaces are divided into indoor and outdoor. Outdoor public spaces include streets, squares, transportation hubs, commercial areas, residential areas, factories, and bridges; indoor public environments refer to airport or train station waiting halls, conference halls, theaters, hotels, stadiums, schools, and large shopping malls. Public sculptures are the type of sculpture most closely connected to people's lives and have the greatest impact on the urban landscape.
4. Easel sculptures are exhibition and display sculptures, such as portrait sculptures and thematic sculptures. These sculptures are primarily for aesthetic purposes, with great freedom in subject matter, materials, size, lighting, and placement. They often become experimental grounds for avant-garde works and have a significant impact on the development of sculpture. These types of works often enter the market as commodities, becoming collections for institutions, businesses, and private individuals, playing an important role in beautifying people's lives.
5. Architectural decorative sculptures: Sculptures attached to buildings, intended for decorative purposes.
6. Practical sculptures: Sculptures made for practical purposes, such as large toy sculptures in amusement parks, advertising sculptures, and logo sculptures.
7. Garden sculptures: Sculptures that beautify gardens. The recently popular sculpture parks are a product of the combination of sculpture and gardens. Proponents of sculpture parks hope to release sculptures from the "imprisonment" of exhibition halls into nature.
8. Interior decorative sculptures: Sculptures that decorate interior walls, ceilings, doors, windows, furniture, etc.
9. Desk sculptures (also known as small ornamental sculptures): Small sculptures made of materials such as pottery, porcelain, clay, wood, stone, silk, bone, shell, and fruit pits, intended for appreciation and handling.
