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For What is Art?
Most art works, have a pronounced theme that leads the viewer to a remarkable conclusion. Wendell Castle’s works tend to gravitate to the opposite of that sort of spectrum. ...
Before Wendell Castle came along there was a clear line drawn in the sand. In the art world; art is art, sculpture is art, furniture can be art, but it could not be sculpture. ... It had been a goal of the studio-furniture movement to cross the fine and arbitrary line between fine-art and fine-furniture. ... The first of which was to brow-beat and convince critics and viewers that your furniture is art. ...
The other method, the one that Castle pioneered, was to have it first viewed as sculpture and then after careful viewing let such art be viewed as functional furnishings.
Approximate Word count = 685
Approximate Pages = 2.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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