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Painting Sculpture Switzerland: 5. Modern and Contemporary Art Contemporary painting sculpture Switzerland and sculpture in Switzerland are not of international importance but some good work is being done under the guidance of such art schools as that of Geneva. This Ecole d"Art is at 9 boulevard Helvetique.
6. Palaces and Gardens Switzerland, having never had yearnings for royalty, has no "Versailles," but it does have scores of striking feudal castles, of which Chilian, at Territet, on Lake Geneva, is the most universally known, and it has also many distinctive gardens and parks of very varied types.
Sculpture, unlike painting sculpture Switzerland, may be appreciated by touch as well as by seeing. Even if one does not actually touch it when contemplating a particular work of sculpture, the appreciation of the smoothness of surface and the modulation of one mass into another may be so strong that the mind receives the sensation of touching. This is commonly referred to as tactile quality, and oftentimes the kind of sculpture which produces a strong tactile expression is called plastic. Small works of sculpture, such as some of the Chinese jade carvings, invite one to take them in the hand.
The 20th Century.—At the very beginning 20th century sculpture was revolutionary, especially in France, where the genius of Rodin hac created new concepts of the nature of sculpture. What the younger artists learned from Rodin was, above all, that the essence of sculpture derives from the relationship of masses to masses, and then from the outlines generated by those masses. Hildebrand w^as also influential in his classicism with its insistence on repose; in his tending to geometrize which led to the simplification—or abstraction—of nature; and in his emphasis on respect for the nature of the materials used for sculpture. In respect for materials, Hildebrand's influence coalesced with more important developments of the same line of thought that had occurred in the fields of architecture and the minor arts, and that had already had effect in painting sculpture Switzerland, particularly in the painting sculpture Switzerland of Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). |
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