Edited by Patricia Stammers, Friday, 11 Apr 2014, 21:54
While on holiday in Madeira I read John White's Art and Architecture in Italy 1200-1450 and 'An Introduction to Art' by Charles Harrison and all but lost contact with terra firma on learning that painting is considered more visually effective than sculpture by some critics.
An artist to whom I put the theory replied,
"That depends on the works of art in question." I agree with that up to a point but surely the three dimensionality of sculpture, and the fact that you cannot see all the facets immediately is mystifying and therefore more visually effective than a painting. A painting is flat like a page of a book and does not occupy space in the same way as you and a sculpture.
Imagine viewing The Dying Gaul Lifesize, ca.230-220 B.C. Museo Capitolino, Rome and Ribera's Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew ca.1639, Prado, Madrid in the same room. I know which work of art would most intrigue me.
Madeira was hot and the natives are handsome. I perched half way down the rocky hilliside above the shoreline among the cacti to sketch. Met a troupe of wild tabby cats.
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While on holiday in Madeira I read John White's Art and Architecture in Italy 1200-1450 and 'An Introduction to Art' by Charles Harrison and all but lost contact with terra firma on learning that painting is considered more visually effective than sculpture by some critics.
An artist to whom I put the theory replied,
"That depends on the works of art in question." I agree with that up to a point but surely the three dimensionality of sculpture, and the fact that you cannot see all the facets immediately is mystifying and therefore more visually effective than a painting. A painting is flat like a page of a book and does not occupy space in the same way as you and a sculpture.
Imagine viewing The Dying Gaul Lifesize, ca.230-220 B.C. Museo Capitolino, Rome and Ribera's Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew ca.1639, Prado, Madrid in the same room. I know which work of art would most intrigue me.
Madeira was hot and the natives are handsome. I perched half way down the rocky hilliside above the shoreline among the cacti to sketch. Met a troupe of wild tabby cats.