4/20/2016

How To Appreciate 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.

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.

If you decide that the one before you is beautiful, or if you think it comes as somehow profound, even to the point of being attractive, that would be wonderful. If it reminds you of something tragic or makes you feel sad or angry, that is even better. It means it is successful in bringing forth meaning, igniting emotions, without being obvious.

Without even representing anything in particular. That is already the step towards real appreciation. It is okay to be different in grasping it. It is also okay not to grasp what the rest thinks is cool. You should not have to jump with that kind of bandwagon. You may not have to take in or decode what triggered the emotions you had for it.

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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