‘happy accidents’ are part of painting , yes, when you dab a brush down and it just somehow looks right, but not part of sculpture. Sculpture is a slow, deliberate, precise and heavily planned task, requiring you to constantly think technically. Happy accidents don’t happen. You have to continually work and shape everything to your deliberate will.
To suggest you could somehow subliminally sculpt one arm a lot bigger and more muscular than the other without thinking about, or noticing it, is ridiculous. Either it was a deliberate plan, or it was sloppy.
I don’t like to judge which one of those it was, I like to leave that to the artist to explain.
Critics can make themselves look like serious fools by coming up with pretentious artsy explanations as to why something is the way it is, and then it turns out to be for totally mundane or erroneous reasons.
have you ever seen rodin’s works? or perhaps prince paul troubetzkoy’s? they have a very painterly style similar to that of john singer sargent’s. the process involved in creating these sculptures are no more different than a masterfuly done painting thats loose and expressive. what may seem like ‘happy accidents’ to you in painting can be as deliberate as any mark can be. there have been stories of sargent hovering his brush on the canvas for a long ass time aiming at his target like a master sharpshooter. with a swift stroke, his mark describes so much more than whatever fully rendered sculpted piece can sometimes. this is the same case with rodin who sculpts in such a painterly manner. also, take a look at rodin’s proportions...hell, even michaelangelo. they enhance certain parts of the body as needed in order to communicate whatever emotion they want to get out of the viewer. by your studies of sculpture, have you ever noticed that sometimes rodin’s proportions do not really abide to perfection? the david if you look at it outside the worm’s eye view was sculpted top heavy by design to accomodate the vantage point of its viewers.
the arm which you claim looks bigger feels very naturalistic for me. when you bend your wrists that way, your flexors bulge up. the body shifts in volume depending on what state the muscle is in, as i am sure you know. eventhough it is your own opinion, i find it VERY annoying to read a post from you that imposes what you think things should be like. i’d actually excuse it if you’re 100% right, but the fact that you are sometimes misinformed does not really jive all that well.
“Sculpture is a slow, deliberate, precise and heavily planned task, requiring you to constantly think technically. Happy accidents don’t happen. You have to continually work and shape everything to your deliberate will.”
um, no. bottomline is have fucking fun with the art. if you’re THAT serious about this, then go enroll in some atelier and do some actual clay sculpture...hell, with the attitude you’re projecting here, i’m surprised why you’re not chipping away at some 500 year old marble down your basement sculpting the next david. are you? because if you are, then that’ll shut me up. otherwise you really should :)...really should shut up that is.
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