As a sculptor myself I find these trite, repetitious, and annoying, not embodying anything close to mythological or inspirational, and certainly nothing remotely close to the stupendous depth of feeling and skill Michelangelo had. These pieces reek of superficiality - the tilted heads breaking natural flowing posture for no real reason, forced stretches, everything about them says, "Blah."
It is curious to me that you could love real, rich, and profoundly beautiful things such as cathedrals and ancient sculptures and think that these are worthy of attention.
It is important to discriminate with great clarity and not to fall into romantically-induced fantasies about modern imagery. There is little made today that is valuable because our society has compromised its integrity in the extreme starting about a century ago when we began to leave behind real craftsmanship and beauty for the empty commercialized bullshit that gradually transferred our attention from beautiful wooden and brick homes to fucking aluminum siding.
Let's please move on, this time with a little more grace.
Hmmm. Since you have an eye for beauty it wasn’t necessary for you to use expletives to make your point? Let’s appreciate the good true and the right. Even to be mediocre as an artist, it takes a tremendous amount of skill, and Work was appreciate his efforts, even though you don’t like his aesthetics.
I do not think of his work as art because it is slick and he makes the same thing over and over. It is commercialized and boring.
It is perfectly alright to critique others material. In fact, it is necessary. It is necessary to be discriminating. You are objecting to my "expletives" but they are needed to be clear. I sound harsh to you. I feel harsh because I am aggravated by the onslaught of so many people producing things to sell that have little merit. It doesn't matter how much work he put into those pieces. That's not how you determine if something is good.
And as I said to "Muse" that kind of thing doesn't belong in with real artwork like Michelangelo's. There is no comparison between anything from the Renaissance and most of the things made in these times. The people of the last hundred years, as I said, are basically lost. They have given up their integrity and sovereignty and they compromise on everything instead of aiming at transcendent beauty and the cultivation of what really is the Good, the Beautiful, and the True.
It bothers me that you or anyone else would defend that kind of behavior and want to pander to it. What you should be defending, in order to assist human evolution, is having the highest standards. But it seems to me that you are more concerned with not hurting the feelings of the man who made those decorations. You want me to be "nice" I think. I don't feel that way. I feel ripped off, and am expressing why.
His Sculptures breathes and indeed takes my breath away .
Exquisitely beautiful! That last one is my fave. Thank you
Graceful. Love his work
He’s extremely talented. I love his work!!
Absolutely! Cheers to the people who beautify our world.
As a sculptor myself I find these trite, repetitious, and annoying, not embodying anything close to mythological or inspirational, and certainly nothing remotely close to the stupendous depth of feeling and skill Michelangelo had. These pieces reek of superficiality - the tilted heads breaking natural flowing posture for no real reason, forced stretches, everything about them says, "Blah."
It is curious to me that you could love real, rich, and profoundly beautiful things such as cathedrals and ancient sculptures and think that these are worthy of attention.
It is important to discriminate with great clarity and not to fall into romantically-induced fantasies about modern imagery. There is little made today that is valuable because our society has compromised its integrity in the extreme starting about a century ago when we began to leave behind real craftsmanship and beauty for the empty commercialized bullshit that gradually transferred our attention from beautiful wooden and brick homes to fucking aluminum siding.
Let's please move on, this time with a little more grace.
Thank you.
Hmmm. Since you have an eye for beauty it wasn’t necessary for you to use expletives to make your point? Let’s appreciate the good true and the right. Even to be mediocre as an artist, it takes a tremendous amount of skill, and Work was appreciate his efforts, even though you don’t like his aesthetics.
I do not think of his work as art because it is slick and he makes the same thing over and over. It is commercialized and boring.
It is perfectly alright to critique others material. In fact, it is necessary. It is necessary to be discriminating. You are objecting to my "expletives" but they are needed to be clear. I sound harsh to you. I feel harsh because I am aggravated by the onslaught of so many people producing things to sell that have little merit. It doesn't matter how much work he put into those pieces. That's not how you determine if something is good.
And as I said to "Muse" that kind of thing doesn't belong in with real artwork like Michelangelo's. There is no comparison between anything from the Renaissance and most of the things made in these times. The people of the last hundred years, as I said, are basically lost. They have given up their integrity and sovereignty and they compromise on everything instead of aiming at transcendent beauty and the cultivation of what really is the Good, the Beautiful, and the True.
It bothers me that you or anyone else would defend that kind of behavior and want to pander to it. What you should be defending, in order to assist human evolution, is having the highest standards. But it seems to me that you are more concerned with not hurting the feelings of the man who made those decorations. You want me to be "nice" I think. I don't feel that way. I feel ripped off, and am expressing why.