The reading this week wasn’t long, it was really only six pages. All of it was on sculpture too so I really don’t have a lot to say. Sculptures are probably my favorite medium for one because it looks so hard to do. Especially with a chisel and hammer I can’t imagine making the sculptures that have been made in the past. I am also drawn to sculpture for one of the reason that the book brought up: sculptures are physically real and aren’t as illusory like paintings are.
The evolution of sculpture was also interesting to me. The fact that the sculptures use to be so lifeless and after centuries Bernini was able to make the marble look like cloth is amazing. The old statues have an artistic feel but really look lifeless and lacked the motion that came later on. Then the grandeur of Michelangelo’s David is breathtaking. It will always baffle me maybe because I have worked with clay and have failed so many times with a malleable material that I don’t know how anyone could make something so beautiful out of stone.
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