4/14/2016

How To Appreciate Abstract Sculptures

By Peter Russell


Looking at any work of art, especially that of a master, makes you want to appreciate it. Even when you just do not seem to be able to grasp its meaning. But sometimes, the beauty in art, lies when you do not understand it. The most beautiful poems, paintings and sculptures were never meant to be understood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In being mysterious, it gives out itself, piece by every amazing piece, allowing the spectator the freedom to give it meaning or none at all. There are many people in museums who really cannot understand a piece of something they are staring at. That does not mean it is devoid of aesthetic value.




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