The beautifully shaped truth about sculpture
So much pious pontificating rubbish is spouted about the function and value of the arts in society that I was delighted last week to catch the great sculptor Anthony Caro putting the subject into wise perspective during an interview with my colleague Alastair Sooke on the latter’s BBC Four series Romancing the Stone.
“What is sculpture for?” Sooke asked Caro. “To please the eye and feed the soul,” Caro replied with a lovely smile and shrug. “Human beings dance, they make music, they carve little pebbles or stick pieces of clay together. It’s just a natural human thing – animals don’t do it. I don’t know what it’s for. What is life for?” It couldn’t be put better than that.
Source: telegraph.co.uk
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Nick was born in Birmingham, England in 1953 and completed his Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1977 followed by a Fellowship in Painting at Sunderland Polytechnic in 1978.
