There is a stereotypical opinion that granite sculpture is an attribute of exclusively funerary architecture. In reality, this is not entirely true. The most common minerals used in the manufacture of sculptures are granite and marble.

The main difference between minerals is that marble has a varied palette of colors and a softer structure, so it is softer in processing, while granite has a less interesting, more restrained pattern, like stone is more durable, so it is more suitable for outdoor decoration.

Despite the fact that granite sculpture is less elegant than marble, it is no less common, as granite is a very strong durable material. It is used both to create sculptures and to make columns, stairs, pedestals, pedestals.

It is worth mentioning that, regardless of the material, the main thing in the manufacture of sculpture is the talent and skill of the master. Having experience and artistic vision of the final result, a skilled sculptor will recreate in granite no less elegant sculptures than in marble.

Very often we can see granite sculptures of majestic animals: lions, elephants, chimeras and gargoyles. Such statues are an integral attribute of the architecture of early eras, and since they were designed to protect housing, decorating gates, stairs, walls and roofs, in a word, to be outside, and at the same time not be afraid of snow, rain, wind or time, they tried to make them out of durable materials, granite.

Many monuments of Soviet times - granite sculpture. Recreating both the leaders of the people, politicians, liberators and ordinary workers, the sculptors sought to create, first of all, not the elegance and smoothness of lines, but to convey the rigidity, firmness, strength and invincibility of the people, and what is better for this than the hardest mineral .
Nowadays, garnet sculpture remains as popular as ever.