Why not discuss the sculpture?

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I wonder why this forum is not discussed sculpture?
Today came across a very interesting document. I think that he had previously never been published, although we should check ... so I publish temporarily so as not to violate copyright. For the same reason, did not correct the errors in terms of our spelling and punctuation.
Lecture delivered by Boris Korolev on the art conference in 1920 - and many interesting ideas, from the discharge "from this point of view, we have not looked at the question even in the XXI century".

PROJECTS PROGRAM
OCCUPATIONAL on sculpture in a studio

REPORT OF THE SCULPTOR BD QUEEN

I. The teaching of sculpture and the whole production of the plastic case in a studio most closely associated with the aspirations and ways of modern culture sculpture.
Look at what was before.
Thus, the pseudo-classicism demanded of students drawing and sculpting with the classical designs. From the materials preferably: clay, plaster and marble favorite. He demanded the proportions and form a clear, but, false aspirations, dry and lean. Texture - Satin polish. Contents - Greco-Roman mythology and homegrown himself mifotvorchestvoval.
Impressionism demanded of students drawing and sculpting from life; material: clay, plaster and podgryaznenny favorite bronze. I loved the form of mint and breathable. Texture - swab and the so-called scenic plans. Contents - a psychological portrait, and lively nature detaya and naked.

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Primitivism require painting and sculpting from life, but through the prism of an archaic and naive children's creativity. Material: clay, plaster, wood, stone. Form: full, - applied to the material. Contents random: a model, Greco-Roman mythology, stories of sacred history, etc. The texture - the texture of weathered stone and corroded by time bronze.
Finally, Cubism and Futurism put a limit to everything that is mediocre, to nauseating, the talented Dr. genius, but always in essence, little aesthetes leadership.
Cubo-Futurism freed creativity of sculpture, the partition is not a model, and the consciousness of the artist, snatching him consistently all the clothing of imitation peacocks clothing styles of the modernization of past epochs.
Cubo-Futurism put sculptor immediately before the space facility, and close to the material, giving the hand of any tool, any tool: create, structure.
Materials: wood and iron, concrete, marble and glass, granite and metals, etc., etc. Texture: the variety of surfaces.
Contents: abstract-plastic construction volumes, determining the shape, focused and bezpredmetnye always extend the horizons of new and new achievements and inventions.
Is the situation. And when the West after the revolution will be driven from the academies and schools Zalinyan professor, to throw out an academic program, it is clear that in the new studios of the West will not need to install the program, for a row of sculptures waiting to be innovators take their positions and be able to independently develop the plastics business in unprecedented volume.
As in painting, we have artists who have reached the plan known scenic culture. But in sculpture from us. When, after the revolution were removed old professor in the existing workshops and pootkryty in the province of new workshops, apart from two, three sculptors innovators did not have the desired rows. Places leaders were mostly occupied by old but still Russia's professors of sculpture or a pathetic, faceless students who were in the new workshops to continue the old, empty case.
  I deliberately said "Russia's". For the fate of the sculpture in Russia - a truly tragic fate. Nineteen centuries ago, the plastic rossiychskogo aspiration of the people was a fatal blow to Christianity. Upon its adoption, together with stone women, and was buried in Great Idol unclean kind whatsoever sculpture. For in every three-dimensional image of the plastic has been banned, as the pagan sinfulness. Fifteen centuries of persecution. And until the XVI century there was no sculpture, but carved ornamentation terems cockerels, skates and valances.
Through such fifteen-century-long break or people, or later intelligenskaya weight, nor sculpture had no sculpture tradition, nor the plastic culture.
Mimetic pseudo-classicism, impressionism miniatiyurny and primitivism, but for the blunt-strong and tenacious naturalistic academism hang heavy weights on the weak legs of our plastic consciousness.
That is why if we now leave our workshops, or rather their offices without the sculptural program of the inverted upside down, with no overall plan for laboratory work, it is clear that we are absolutely not having the appropriate number of sculptors of innovative plastic case, the young cast, and drive for the sculpture was awakened great - I say throw the whole lot of young people in a vice, and destructive power secretly and openly, consciously and unconsciously chicanery sculptors in the worst case, and simply worthless mazikolok at best.
But if we want to see the sculpture would be modern and in keeping with our time constantly electrified wills, twisted atmospheres, time, colossal structures and ingenious inventions, last time the heroic struggle of not hundreds of thousands - and hundreds of millions, we must once and for all abandon sculpture as indoor and street decorations and put in the sculpture program, as the plastic construction, constructing plastic forms. Proceeding from the aforesaid, I venture to offer you the following проэкт curricula of sculpture in the workshop, which is underlying the work, of course, can hamper DIY leaders have embarked on a creative path, but it will oblige the other useless and even clumsily, though may be against will, but to raise the hatch creative treasures of their apprentices.

Projects program.

I. Study of materials:
Solid: stone, iron, steel, iron, marble, wood, granite, glass etc.
Negative materials: stucco, plaster, cement, etc.
Izsledovaniya: a) the physical properties of materials, b) the laws of the interfaces of materials with) the laws of cohesion materials
Study Materials Processing Technology: stamping, carving, forging, stamping, tide, etc.

II /Cognition elements of plastic culture.

1. Three-dimensional shape.
a) The form and materials
b) the shape and color (plastic)
c) form and space (static)
d) the form and time (dynamics)
d) the form and structure.

2. Texture.
1) texture and material
2) texture, and finishing techniques

III. Constructions

1. Construction on a) structure forms
b) the composition of materials
c) on the contrast and rhythm: a) Forms
b) Materials
c) The invoicing

Running
Individual
Collective
On assignment
Independent surveys, experiments
Interviews. Excursion. Monitoring the progress of engineering, factory and architectural constructions.

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I think this overall plan of the laboratory-pilot, most importantly, experimental work - the practical implementation of government jobs would help to orient the plastic minds of students at the new modern perception of the substance and speed, consistently bringing it into full and creative activity of our day.

BA Korolev

1920 June
Moscow