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Listing the Proper(ties) and (At)tributes of sculpture:
Besides what makes sculpture different than painting, to say nothing of dance, music and literature; it occurred to me that i couldn't -without this delineation- say exactly what sculpture does. Not any specific piece but those (quale)ities which are factors distinguishing sculpt from all other (art)works [using Arendt's definition of work as something created from nature
(as an (art) ifice/wall/boundary) by man, who's end is in-itself and has duration and a (sem)blance of per(man)ence]. So, as much for myself as for this piece, this listing, in-and-of-itself, serves as a partial cognition and does not attempt a hierarchy -although it may be implied unconsciously.
-Fragility & Permanence Embodied.
-The Human Scale Realized.
-A Subjective & Personal Spatial Awareness.
-Grandeur & Intimacy as the Transcendental Experience.
-Men becomes conscious of Man through realist figurative representations.
-Man becomes conscious that he is bound to Nature through Material substances.
-Vaguely elusive, multifaceted, multidimensional.
-The sculptor has less control, therefore has a heighten awareness of his limitations, translating it to the viewer.
-Reveals aesthetics unknown prior to its completion due to shifts in lighting.
-Reveals facets unknowable due to viewer's position in space.
-Effects the space in which it is placed.
-Self-sufficient.
-Internal structure and formal integrity independent of the setting
-Specially organized spatial environment.
-Includes the beholder, as an object, therefore shapes response.
-Controls the environment.
-The Integrity of the work separates the world.
-No beginning, middle or end.
-Insists on its own existence in space.
-Uses non-fictitious space.
-Probes various states of physical suspension, tension and nonbeing (negative space) .
-Activates contingencies within the viewer's encounter, rather than outside of them.
-Has physical Reality, Mass and weight, under the constraint of gravity.
-Imagery without illusion.
-Modification resistant.
-A propensity for pre-planning, Conceptualist.
-Teleological, it doesn't exist until completed. |
List of Possibilities & Functions:
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The Commercial
For God
For Itself
For Decoration
To Enhance Nature
For a Personal Semblance
To Communicate
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A Social Commentary
For Man
For a Political Agenda
To Enhance Architecture
For Utility
For Pleasure
For Expression
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