Saturday, April 16, 2016

Finding Masterpiece In Abstract Sculpture

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.

They are meant to be felt. So if looking at abstract sculptures New York, gives you a different kind of feeling, then revel in it. Do not question yourself when you cannot decipher what it is meant to look like. That kind of thing may come across as weird and you may feel inclined to give it automatic praise, but it should not.

For some reason, not being able to define them, makes them even more beautiful. Their ambiguity is overwhelming in a nice kind of way, that you will accept the fact that it is not meant on being profound. Sometimes, it does not have to really resemble anything that goes on in the real world.

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.

If you come across a piece that does not awaken anything in you, that is okay. You will not be alone who would have the same kind of disposition in the crowd. There will be many others who will look at it and find something confusing, or awkward, even weird. But that is where its beauty lies.

And no matter how contradicting that sounds, it works for them. The finished product will be a pride you would want the world to see. If it is not appreciated, it would be okay. If it is, then that would be amazing. You have to know that it has a different platform of understanding, if that is what you want to achieve out of it.




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