Zorach Explains Sculpture

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In.this book I will discuss the materials of art and the meanings of art, starting Simply and returning again and again to each subject until I have Covered the final technical phases which sculptors eventually need to know, but which merely confuse and hamper a beginner. I will explain how to model and carve freely small things in clay for beginners and dis cuss how to learn to observe form, how to organize relationships and how to achieve rhythms, how to see planes and fundamental structure. This, I will try to-do in such a way that it will give a foundation for further work with clay, and for the making of sculpture in stone and wood. I am giving Specific information and instruction in this book because a student usually feels lost-without this information and'it is very hard to find. He sometimes feels so hampered by the lack of technical knowl edge that it interferes with his ability to approach sculpture. But going into all this technical information gives a false impression of the true. Approach to sculpture. The real artist should approach art simply and by doing it. He should only look for information when he feels the need of it in his work.