The glossy surface and bronzey toning puts this smack dab in Jean Shepherd’s “slob art” department. That so many see a penis, bratwurst or hippo indicates that someone should have stepped in at the maquette stage.
If a sculpture is to evoke an emotion, a skillfully executed abstract object can work. If it is to represent specific person…
The glossy surface and bronzey toning puts this smack dab in Jean Shepherd’s “slob art” department. That so many see a penis, bratwurst or hippo indicates that someone should have stepped in at the maquette stage.
If a sculpture is to evoke an emotion, a skillfully executed abstract object can work. If it is to represent specific persons, it can be attenuated, but it damn well better be recognizable as those persons. See: the Washington sculpture of MLK Jr. (text aside.) I can imagine a granite carving of the two emerging from a rough hewn base, huge, but only from waist up. Embracing, but with faces buried in each other’s neck, with hair and shape and enough forehead/cheek showing to be immediately recognizable, but full visages left to each of our memories.
Only question I am left with is How does this one eventually depart the Common? How about in a couple of years a Common rehab project is proposed. It goes to the MFA “temporarily” but becomes a permanent installation/their problem. You’re welcome.
The glossy surface and bronzey toning puts this smack dab in Jean Shepherd’s “slob art” department. That so many see a penis, bratwurst or hippo indicates that someone should have stepped in at the maquette stage.
If a sculpture is to evoke an emotion, a skillfully executed abstract object can work. If it is to represent specific persons, it can be attenuated, but it damn well better be recognizable as those persons. See: the Washington sculpture of MLK Jr. (text aside.) I can imagine a granite carving of the two emerging from a rough hewn base, huge, but only from waist up. Embracing, but with faces buried in each other’s neck, with hair and shape and enough forehead/cheek showing to be immediately recognizable, but full visages left to each of our memories.
Only question I am left with is How does this one eventually depart the Common? How about in a couple of years a Common rehab project is proposed. It goes to the MFA “temporarily” but becomes a permanent installation/their problem. You’re welcome.