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"The #head is the most important part of the #figure,
The #body and the legs are less weightyActive hands are emphasized, like speaking mouths
Quantity is used to emphasize intensity.Inactive, unimportant or uninteresting parts are only indicated or neglected. There are even figures without bodies.You will find without my explanation in which direction our interest is led, where our #attention is absorbed...”
These lines from Josef #Albers refer to a series of slides of #Mexican pre-Columbian #sculptures he showed during a lecture entitled “Truthfulness in Art”.
The audience in the dimly lit room at #Harvard in 1940 was able to see the pictures he described. Today, the reader of the transcript can only meet them in his #imagination.There’s an idea to be found in many theories about the origin of sculpture suggesting that the first creation of representations was triggered by #mental #images or by the #perceptionof accidents, of natural origin or produced by non-iconic human traces.
This “fortuitous #realism” could be then attributed to a faculty of projection, associated with a better-understood faculty of feature #recognition (i.e. the ability to recognize an object from visual clues). Some researchers like the#rock expert Robert G. #Bednarik have come to say this process has its origin on the inherent ambiguity of visual perception or what he calls “imaginative perception”.What is the starting point of a #sculpture?
How do you represent #something you haven’t yet seen?