肖传玖(1914-1968)，湖南湘潭人。1929年考入杭州国立艺术专科学校雕塑系。1933年考入东京大学艺术科攻读雕塑。1939年应聘在昆明国立艺术专科学校任教。1946年被聘回杭州国立艺术专科学校任教。1950年后任中央美术学院华东分院、浙江美术学院教授兼雕塑系主任，中国文联委员、中国美术家协会理事、浙江美术家协会副主席、浙江省人民代表大会代表等职。

肖传玖认为生活是雕塑艺术的源泉，时代是雕塑创作的出发点。雕塑作品用雕塑语言歌颂人的智慧和才能，表现作者的理想和追求。我们在欣赏历代的优秀雕塑品时，首先感到和重视的是作品所表现的每一个时代的社会生活与精神风貌。因此在艺术创作上，肖传玖主张植根于现实生活，通过作品来表现生活的本质和时代的特征，进而反映作者的思想感情。他早年的作品直面社会，多选择表现人民苦难生活和国人抗击日寇侵略的主题。《救救孩子》和《逼债》揭露了统治者对老百姓的迫害，《工人胸像》表现了工人阶级的觉醒力量，体现了作者对老百姓的热爱和尊重。

新中国成立后，受毛主席文艺思想的影响，肖传玖紧跟时代，追随人民前进的步伐，深入斗争生活，诚诚恳恳地创造反映推动历史前进的人民的形象。50年代，他多次带领同学下乡下厂实习，贴近群众，与当地老百姓建立了深厚的感情。他的创作大多是表现工农兵的战斗生活，如《工农联盟》、《工人纠察队》、《护厂》等。1951年的《工人纠察队》，塑造了工人阶级的主人翁新形象，鲜明概括地表现了解放前夕工人群众团结起来和敌人作斗争，勇敢地保护人民财产不受敌人破坏的场面，典型地再现了那个由旧时代向新时代转化的进程。另一类是歌颂领袖和英雄的作品，如1951年创作的全国第一座《毛主席全身立像》，被各地许多单位复制。1956年创作的《鲁迅坐像》参加全国美展后，被安置在了上海虹口公园鲁迅墓前；1957年创作的《地雷战》先陈列于中国人民革命军事博物馆，现藏于中国美术馆；与苏晖、傅天仇合作的《广岛被炸十年祭》，参加了世界青年联欢节美术展览，后被中国美术馆收藏。

1953年至1956年间，肖传玖参加人民英雄纪念碑大型浮雕创作所制作的《南昌起义》，它形象地表现了中国共产党联合国民党左派，打响了武装反抗国民党反动派第一枪的战斗情景。这一重要的创作实现了他要体现民族雕塑风格，要吸取西方雕塑的优点，要充分与建筑、周围环境结合的设想，明确并完美体现了新时代艺术的人民性、民族性，赋予人们浪漫而激情的想象，一种民族的崇敬和景仰及历史与文化的怀想，它不仅是一座纪念为国牺牲的人民英雄的丰碑，也是中国近现代光辉革命历史的象征。

肖传玖强调艺术与生活不可分离，他自觉走出学院派的藩篱，与主流意识相应和，始终葆持艺术的激情，勤以表现工人和农民大众。在创作中他注意吸取借鉴民族雕塑的优良传统，造型准确坚实，形象真实典型，手法洗练多变，风格明快浑朴，所雕人物形态生动，尤其擅长刻画人物内在的神情。王卓予先生称他为“永远忠于人民的艺术家”。

 Xiao Chuanjiu (1914-1968), a native of Xiangtan, Hunan Province. In 1929, he was admitted to the Department of Sculpture of Hangzhou National College of Art. In 1933, he was admitted to the Art Department of Tokyo University to study sculpture. In 1939, he was employed to teach at Kunming National College of Art. He was hired to teach at Hangzhou National College of Art in 1946. After 1950, he served as the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, professor and chairman of the Department of Sculpture of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, member of the Chinese Federation, director of the Chinese Artists Association, vice-chairman of the Zhejiang Artists Association, and representative of the Zhejiang People's Congress.

Xiao Chuanjiu believes that life is the source of sculpture art and the era is the starting point of sculpture creation. Sculpture works use sculpture language to praise people's wisdom and talent, and express the author's ideal and pursuit. When we appreciate the excellent sculptures of past dynasties, we first feel and attach importance to the social life and spiritual outlook of each era represented by the works. Therefore, in artistic creation, Xiao Chuanjiu advocates rooting in real life, expressing the essence of life and the characteristics of the times through works, and then reflecting the author's thoughts and feelings. In his early works, he faced the society directly, choosing to express the people's miserable life and the theme of people's resistance to Japanese aggression. "Save the Children" and "Force the Debt" expose the persecution of the ruler to the people. The "Worker's Bosom" shows the awakening power of the working class and the author's love and respect for the people.

After the founding of New China, influenced by Chairman Mao's literary and artistic thoughts, Xiao Chuanjiu kept pace with the times, followed the pace of the people's progress, went deep into the struggle of life, and sincerely created the image of the people reflecting the progress of history. In the 1950s, he led his classmates to practice in countryside factories for many times, drew close to the masses, and established deep feelings with the local people. His works mostly show the fighting life of workers, peasants and soldiers, such as "Workers and Peasants Union", "Workers'picket team", "Protecting Factory" and so on. The 1951 "Workers'picket" portrayed a new image of the master of the working class. It vividly summarized the situation that the workers and masses united to fight against the enemy on the eve of liberation and bravely protected people's property from destruction by the enemy. It typically reproduced the process of transformation from the old era to the new era. The other is the work of eulogizing leaders and heroes, such as the first National Portrait of Chairman Mao in 1951, which was copied by many units around the country. After participating in the national art exhibition in 1956, Lu Xun's Sitting Image was placed in front of Lu Xun's tomb in Hongkou Park, Shanghai; the Mine Warfare, created in 1957, was first displayed in the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution and is now hidden in the Chinese Art Museum; and the Ten-Year Festival of Hiroshima Exploded in cooperation with Su Hui and Fu Tianqiu, participated in the world youth festival. The Festival art exhibition was later collected by the Chinese Art Museum.

From 1953 to 1956, Xiao Chuanjiu participated in the Nanchang Uprising, which was created by the large relief sculpture of the People's Hero Monument. It vividly depicted the left wing of the CPC, the United Nations Democratic Party and triggered the first battle against the reactionaries of the Kuomintang. This important creation realizes that he should embody the national sculpture style, absorb the advantages of Western sculpture, fully integrate with architecture and surrounding environment, clearly and perfectly embody the people and nationality of the art of the new era, endow people with romantic and passionate imagination, a kind of national respect and admiration, history and literature. It is not only a monument to the people's heroes who sacrificed for their country, but also a symbol of the glorious revolutionary history of modern China.

Xiao Chuanjiu emphasized that art and life can not be separated. He consciously stepped out of the fence of academics, corresponded to the mainstream consciousness, and always maintained the passion of art, diligently expressing the workers and peasants. In his creation, he pays attention to drawing lessons from the fine tradition of national sculpture, with accurate and solid shape, true and typical image, changeable techniques, lively and simple style, vivid shape of the sculptured characters, especially good at depicting the inner look of the characters. Mr. Wang Zhuoyu called him "an artist who is always loyal to the people".