Saturday, 9 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.

Your ancestors used rocks to paint on. Back then, there was no other tool that artists now have access to. And they have delved into symbolic pieces, geometric that have no definite form but nevertheless, not void of visual meaning. It is at this level that abstract sculptures New York have originated from, in one way or another.

If it does not feel right, or look right, that is okay. Embracing an art you do not understand just because the work is that of Picasso or someone famous can be easy. However, it should be an entirely different story when it comes to sculptures. You just do not get it, and you are afraid to finally admit it.

Give it a chance. Sculpture is three dimensional, which gives you a chance to walk right up to it and look closely. So that you can take it all in by three hundred sixty degrees. Allow your mind to be free willing, going where the angles of what you are staring at, go.

Anyone who looks at it can give it any kind of interpretation and that is what makes it so interesting. In its mystery, it still encourages freedom of expression, freedom of meaning you would want to form out of it. And that kind of privilege, no matter how small, will just be so liberating.

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.

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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