Art has existed even before humans were able to technically define it. The earliest cultures have made their signs and markings on textiles, pottery, inscriptions on caves and stones. It transcended to almost everything they can find, without even knowing the effect it would have in future civilizations.
Your ancestors used rocks to paint on. Back then, there was no other tool that artists now have access to. And they have delved into symbolic pieces, geometric that have no definite form but nevertheless, not void of visual meaning. It is at this level that
abstract sculptures New York have originated from, in one way or another.
If it does not feel right, or look right, that is okay. Embracing an art you do not understand just because the work is that of Picasso or someone famous can be easy. However, it should be an entirely different story when it comes to sculptures. You just do not get it, and you are afraid to finally admit it.
Give it a chance. Sculpture is three dimensional, which gives you a chance to walk right up to it and look closely. So that you can take it all in by three hundred sixty degrees. Allow your mind to be free willing, going where the angles of what you are staring at, go.
Sculptures, back then were used to celebrate and honor events like battles, salute to famous people or as ornaments in buildings. They were either carved from stone or molded from clay before they are cast in bronze. Artists never made enough money when they were not making painstaking studies and trials and errors before they finally became sculptural work.
It makes the artist escape reality in a different kind of way. So much so that he will be able to depict that in the form of imagery. This departure will serve as something complete, lacking or somehow biased, because of its total partiality to rules. It is boundless, and that is what makes people drawn to a sculpture, without them even knowing.
Most of the time, the ones who explore this, are the ones who want to be more modern or avante garde. It cannot be representative of anything specific, otherwise, it loses its abstraction in value. That is something the artist would not want to end up doing. Like any form of chosen profession, they have their specialization too.
In that, others would want to be realists, while some would like the idea of being minimalists and then there are the abstract sculptors, which would be a combination of all of them. Gone are the days that this kind of art was just an honor to fallen heroes. Now, they exist to revolutionize shapes in stones and woods that you can make some inspiration out of.
In being mysterious, it gives out itself, piece by every amazing piece, allowing the spectator the freedom to give it meaning or none at all. There are many people in museums who really cannot understand a piece of something they are staring at. That does not mean it is devoid of aesthetic value.