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Friday 15 April 2016

The Thing About Abstract Sculptures

By Peter Russell


People are visual by nature. Everyday they revel in the glorious pleasure of being able to freely express themselves, in any means possible, not just talking. People get creative in expressing their ideas, their thoughts, the ones that haunts them, and those that they think matters enough to be shared.

When combined with skill, expression becomes art. When combined with the deepest passion and mastery, it becomes a masterpiece. You see it everywhere. And even those you cannot grasp the meaning of, like abstract sculptures New York, you still come to appreciate them.

It is also because of this, that it communicates to people. One can just look at the sheer beauty of calligraphy, for example, without even being able to read it. While paintings of this type thrives on infinite emotions and ideas, sculpture tends to give out something more conceptual in form.

That is the beauty of it. Other times, you would go wondering what the artist was thinking. Before the rise of the twentieth century, all sculpture was made to become figural. That means it should resemble a person, or something tangible, like an animal or thing that is seen or considered seen, in the real world.

Sculptures, back then were used to celebrate and honor events like battles, salute to famous people or as ornaments in buildings. They were either carved from stone or molded from clay before they are cast in bronze. Artists never made enough money when they were not making painstaking studies and trials and errors before they finally became sculptural work.

Some people specifically explored using different materials. Others tried to find ways more ways in conveying their emotions. This made them set aside traditional definitions and what the audience expected of art. In which case, materials, or inspiration is used, not as a subject that can be represented, but to be expressed, and to be a source of ideas.

When you see it in the park, or a sculptor working on it, you will not be able to tell what is is supposed to be. Because that is just it, exactly. Created to be something undefinable, you still learn to somehow appreciate it. Or even feel something about what is in front of your eyes, without grasping what it should be.

Because in your mind, the sculptor gives you the power to make it anything you want it to be. That is the kind of magic you would want out of art. Just like word play for poets, the end result is some kind of creative play for them. The satisfaction they get out of it will be unmatched, because they want to tell everything by being subtle and remaining mysterious.

There will be times that you will find it hard to figure out, when you are a spectator. Or when you are in a modern museum. But that is just the thing. It was not meant to be figured out. It is meant to be felt and appreciated in its mystery and oddity.




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