"Sculpture is the hardest art. Unlike diffidently wall-mounted painting, it intrudes on an already crowded world: mediocre painting is easily ignored; mediocre sculpture is exasperating. To be tolerated, let alone welcomed, a sculpture must have immediate and persistent drama, often announced by a certain shock."
The New Yorker, December 22 & 29, 2014, p. 68
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Three dimensionality exists in the space of our world in a way that two-dimensinal (flat) art doesn't.
Flat art is illusionary; sculpture occupies the same space we do, not illusionary.
I don't know about shock.
For the first viewers of the great Renaissance sculptors, like Michelangelo, for instance, seeing those huge artifacts for the first time must have been a religious experience. "Like" god or "rivaling" god's power.
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