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[ti:The Sculptor Speaks]
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[00:00.61]Lesson 31
[00:02.76]The sculptor speaks
[00:10.95]What do you have to be able to do to appreciate sculpture?
[00:17.35]Appreciation of sculpture depends upon the ability to respond to form in 3 dimensions.
[00:25.69]That is perhaps why sculpture has been described as the most difficult of all arts;
[00:32.10]certainly it is more difficult than the arts which involve appreciation of flat forms, shape in only two dimensions.
[00:41.91]Many more people are 'form-blind' than colour-blind.
[00:48.46]The child learning to see, first distinguishes only two-dimensional shape; it cannot judge distances, depths.
[00:57.88]Later, for its personal safety and practical needs, it has to develop (partly by means of touch) the ability to judge roughly 3-dimensonal distances.
[01:11.81]But having satisfied the requirements of practical necessity, most people go no further.
[01:18.94]Though they may attain considerable accuracy in the perception of flat form,
[01:24.99]they do not make the further intellectual and emotional effort needed to comprehend form in its full spatial existence.
[01:35.23]This is what the sculptor must do.
[01:38.04]He must strive continually to think of and use, form in its full spatial completeness.
[01:46.88]He gets the solid shape as it were, inside his head--he thinks of it, whatever its size, as if he were holding it completely enclosed in the hollow of his hand.