I’m not convinced that Joan of Arc would’ve looked attentive as she listened to the heavenly voices. Certainly not like this, in a raptly ecstatic state. It’s vaguely pornographic. It’s also vaguely creepy, as she’s portrayed as far more innocent as she was, but that’s definitely the 1880s hypocritical morality coming out to play.
Tag: sculpture
Monday
Mmmm, traditional Greek sculpture. Let’s just admire it. I really don’t need to make pithy commentary, do I?
Thursday
While this is my second favorite work of contemporary sculpture, I never really ascribed to it any of the conventional meanings. In fact, to me, it’s much more of a feeling of abstract notions rather than a direct equation, unlike most people’s interpretations of the work. I feel very calm and centered when I look at it, with a nudge in the direction of intellectual stimulus, rather than, say, wanting to go watch something on television or the like.
Friday
This is the art of designing in multidimensional space – each layer clearly had to be meticulously designed on its own before being spliced together, else they wouldn’t work together so harmoniously. So many things could (and probably did) go wrong; I’d like to see the original models to see what changes were made between the conceptual models and the final piece, but they probably no longer exist.
Saturday
I can see how this would have looked 100% different brand new, before urban blight and icon worship set in. It would have been a glorious thing; now it’s just kind of sad, really. I mean, it’s still beautiful and a super high level of craftsmanship, but it just looks like it’s been used and abused for a few hundred years.
Tuesday
I’d hate to have these dudes serving on the board of my apocalypse. But, to be fair, they aren’t exactly Crowley and Aziraphale, are they?
Tuesday
This thing is super creepy up close and it feels like it’s watching you even though you know it’s just an illusion and it’s only a bronze statue and it isn’t alive.
Saturday
Can we talk about how in at least in the 1840s, at least most people sort of knew what lions looked like, as opposed to the 1600s and such when we have gross misrepresentations of Barbary lions and hippos and rhinos and things in Baroque art because they’re based on descriptions of things from classical literature and “I saw this fantastic creature on a trading expedition!” letters and things? Because this is an actual thing in art history and it needs to be discussed.
Thursday
This actually screams post-modern art deco when you look at it properly. The lines are all the fluid, geometric forms of art deco, but taken to a streamlined form ala Bauhaus.
Sunday
I’d really like to think that this dude was the winner of some slam-dunk poetry recital ala a rap battle where they went toe to toe in a ring duking it out over the gods or some hot guy’s body in verbal deference. Because it makes me smile.