How To Appreciate Sculptures?

Sculpture is the construction of physical objects in space, painting is the construction of virtual space in a flat plane (a bit abstract... The connection is inextricably linked and endless, just I personally like to sculpt some.

How to appreciate the sculpture, this is simple, since it is three-dimensional, you can see it from all sides, as for the angle, personal preference issues, I personally, classical realistic sculpture, at first glance I will look at the twisting relationship, in fact, it is dynamic, sculpture is also particular about composition, chest head crotch twisting, and then look at the texture, the texture of the skin, and the sense of muscle expansion.

For example, Gaetano Cellini, there is an impact at a glance, the picture is concentrated on the left, the top of the hand is equivalent to the white space of the painting, but the center of the picture is on the hand (the writing is not clear, sorry, The sense of power and tearing of the hand grasping the satin is shocking.

However, once the angle is changed, this sense of power and dynamics is weakened a lot, and even the force of the tearing is not felt

In fact, any angle can be used, you can also appreciate it from another angle, depending on personal preference, followed by the muscle mechanism, the interlacing of muscles and bones, and so on, or texture contrast, such as the contrast between rough base and smooth skin texture, hard marble or other materials, shaping a soft texture and so on.

The above is a traditional realistic sculpture, for China's Buddha sculpture, look at the sharp lines and supernatural proportions