Sculpture has long stood as one of humanity’s most powerful means of expression; a dynamic art form that records cultural, technological, and philosophical change.
For me, sculpture has most consistently evoked more emotion than any other art form. A few artists and paintings draw me out. But nothing like the space and form, the rhythms in the air, the play on materials, of sculpture.
The biggest takeaway from this written piece is the journey. You have done an incredible job in a very short essay of giving the reader a very complete visual journey to experience the transitions from the most simpler frontal perspective and relief all the way through abstraction. The air moves with us around each image as we imagine being in its presence. Using the Degas as the transitional pivot places it in context casual viewers could never realize on their own, and academics often overlook.
Your writing is a true service to art, and history will be richer for it.
Thank you. Truly. There’s an undeniable intimacy in the way sculpture occupies and transforms space....how it invites the body to respond, to move, to feel in tandem with form. It’s a kind of dialogue that painting, as powerful as it is, doesn’t always provoke in quite the same way.
I’m especially moved by your insight into the Degas piece. To see it recognized not just as an artwork, but as a pivot point....a hinge between tradition and modernity....is something I hoped would come through. That moment of transition is where I find so much of the emotional weight in art history: not just in what’s being made, but in what’s being left behind and what’s daring to emerge.
Thank you again for your kind words 🙏🏼 They mean more than I can express, and they remind me why I write in the first place.
For me, sculpture has most consistently evoked more emotion than any other art form. A few artists and paintings draw me out. But nothing like the space and form, the rhythms in the air, the play on materials, of sculpture.
The biggest takeaway from this written piece is the journey. You have done an incredible job in a very short essay of giving the reader a very complete visual journey to experience the transitions from the most simpler frontal perspective and relief all the way through abstraction. The air moves with us around each image as we imagine being in its presence. Using the Degas as the transitional pivot places it in context casual viewers could never realize on their own, and academics often overlook.
Your writing is a true service to art, and history will be richer for it.
Thank you. Truly. There’s an undeniable intimacy in the way sculpture occupies and transforms space....how it invites the body to respond, to move, to feel in tandem with form. It’s a kind of dialogue that painting, as powerful as it is, doesn’t always provoke in quite the same way.
I’m especially moved by your insight into the Degas piece. To see it recognized not just as an artwork, but as a pivot point....a hinge between tradition and modernity....is something I hoped would come through. That moment of transition is where I find so much of the emotional weight in art history: not just in what’s being made, but in what’s being left behind and what’s daring to emerge.
Thank you again for your kind words 🙏🏼 They mean more than I can express, and they remind me why I write in the first place.
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