Contemporary sculpture is often created to excite a person’s emotional side – to astonish with the scale, to arouse surprise and even disgust, only not to leave the viewer indifferent. In the pursuit of external effects, modern sculpture often loses its moral, ethical, and aesthetic edge.
Art has always been called upon to serve higher ideals. Contemporary sculptures are filled with inner light. In their works the masters express a common aspiration – to fill the world with positive images, to create a sculpture in which you can feel the presence of a living soul. The sculptors dedicate their works to universal values, affirming love, joy, harmony, prayer, faith, hope, mercy, compassion. The contemporary sculptures of “Author’s Sculpture” artists bring concepts of the spiritual world into the form in many ways and become a channel between the world of the earthly and the mundane.
The theme of the Great Teachers of Humanity deserves special attention. The sculptor creates portraits of great sages, founders of spiritual teachings, scientists, writers, discoverers and mentors of humanity of all times and peoples. Modern sculpture is a unique phenomenon of the spiritualization of sculpture. The sculptor manages to achieve that effect, when the eyes of the sculpture turn into a conscious deep living look of a philosopher, a sage at his contemporaries. The upward gaze, illuminated by the highest ideas of the French folk heroine Joan of Arc or the founder of the spiritual teachings of India Krishna, the Persian sage-poet Omar Khayyam; the eyes of Euclid, Pythagoras, Hypatia, Paracelsus, Copernicus and Giordano Bruno, Michael Faraday, Descartes, deepened in reflection, focused on their discoveries in the world of science, captured the special world of discovery that was brought to humanity through the great scientists. With special reverence, the sculptor created the sculptural faces of Jesus Christ, Buddha, Zoroaster, Hermestus Trismegistus, Lao Tzu, and Confucius.
Modern sculpture of the 21st century, leaving the external pretentious effects in the past, is moving towards an awareness of the innermost that is hidden in the form, sculpture is increasingly becoming an expression of the highest meanings.