mountshang
09-21-2006, 10:25 PM
"Sculpture should be the most exceptional of the arts. It should externalize only the rarest and absolutely most beautiful moments of life, choosing with irreproachable discrimination from the forms, the joys, the sorrows of humanity. A sculptured moment which is not admirable is a permanent crime, a persistant and inexcusable obsession."....... Maurice Maeterlinck
I guess I never thought of "sculptured moments" -- because so much liturgical sculpture throughout history -- which is mostly the kind that I like -- seems eternal and divine rather than momentary and human -- but I agree that a bad sculpture is a permanent crime -- or , at least it's permanent until it's taken away.
(note: the above quote was chosen by Lorado Taft to introduce his 1917 book called "Modern tendencies in sculpture" -- in which many harsh words are given to some of the monumental sculpture of his time)
I guess I never thought of "sculptured moments" -- because so much liturgical sculpture throughout history -- which is mostly the kind that I like -- seems eternal and divine rather than momentary and human -- but I agree that a bad sculpture is a permanent crime -- or , at least it's permanent until it's taken away.
(note: the above quote was chosen by Lorado Taft to introduce his 1917 book called "Modern tendencies in sculpture" -- in which many harsh words are given to some of the monumental sculpture of his time)