Liu Haisu wrote in the preface of World Human Photography (1988): "Human body art has a long history. As early as before the era, ancient Greek sculpture was the masterpiece of the dawn of human culture, and ancient Rome also attached importance to human sculpture. The rich human artistic heritage became the source of European art. After a long night in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance gradually revived a dangerous main line of human art. Since the rise of classicism, the human body has played an irreplaceable positive role as an aesthetic object, a creative theme and a basic training method. "

Foreign art colleges have offered mannequin teaching courses for hundreds of years, and the introduction of mannequin sketch in modern art education in China has a history of 890 years since Li Shutong and other predecessors. Practice has proved that offering the course of mannequin sketch is very beneficial to the basic education of fine arts and the enrichment and development of modern civilization.