neatorama.com — Playing in two dimensions is easy enough, but what truly separates the men from the boys? Maybe it?s when you give up your easel for a tool belt and get to work with a hammer and chisel. These amazing sculptors took their talents 3-D.
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Closed AccountMay 16, 2007
michelangelo is head and shoulders above every other sculptor in this list combined. On top of that he is one of the top three 2d artists to ever live. When it comes to academic art, the guy was a freak of nature that will almost certainly never be equaled.
wnanetteMay 16, 2007
gf:Your repulsive DIGG moniker aside, I totally agree with you. When my two children were young and impressionable, visits to art museums and sculpture gardens would sometimes bring forth my gentle reminder - nude is not 'nasty'. I realize by sharing this, many of you will take issue with my over-simplification of a touchy subject - but that's how I chose to handle it at the time, and it seemed to work fine.
chaduMay 16, 2007
whatever. he basically created the modern form.
thekricketMay 16, 2007
easy, dennis miller...
Closed AccountMay 16, 2007
you guys are arguing over the same thing as the people commenting in the article...which kind of leads into what one of them was saying (Sid Morrison), and he was immediately chastised for calling Brancusi crap for the lack of technical skill that is displayed, which is not to say Brancusi has no skill, just that those pieces are not shining examples of it. The alternative argument is that he's making a point and reacting to classical sculpture, not wanting to rehash what others have already perfected.Well...I can play an E-chord all day long on the guitar and make up a wicked abstraction about how it represents the quotidian and white noise of modern life, but in the end you're still going to look at me at say "Dude, you're still only playing an E. Change that s**t up."Ideas without technical proficiency are just that, ideas. I think good art should have some degree of difficulty involved.
Closed AccountMay 16, 2007
Splinter did more abstract stuff...I don't think the mainstream is ready.
architimmyMay 16, 2007
I have had the good fortune to see all of the pieces mentioned (except for the Brancusi piece mentioned in this list, I have seen "the kiss" and "bird in space" ) and hands down Bernini is in an entirely different class to himself. Apollo and Daphne is something that will change your perception of sculpture. The skin appears to be skin, the leaves look like leaves. Surfaces have an amazing translucency (the leaves have veins!) that blows anything else out of the water. It's hard to even believe that you are looking at marble at all. Simply put, all of the mentioned artists have incredible moving work, but Bernini is technically beyond what I think anyone will ever accomplish again. It's literally jawdropping. I could stand in a room and stare at any one of those scupltures mentioned in this article all day and still want to go back and see them again. I know, because I have, and I do.
Closed AccountFeb 28, 2010
Great list dude , but take a look at this one <a class="user" href="http://www.loudable.com/mind-whopping-kinetic-sculptor-videos.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.loudable.com/mind-whopping-kinetic-scul ...</a>