sozobe wrote:This is so interesting. I seem to really like contrasts and juxtapositions in art, and this is chock-full. The classical treatment of an incredibly non-classical person. A place that tends to feature dead white men featuring a (currently) alive, and in that rendering ultra-female (breasts, pregnant belly) female. The beautiful with the horrible. How the horrible is actually beautiful in its way. Shame and pride. All kinds of good stuff mixed up together.
And technically very adept, too. Though I think the exact same rendering of a beauty-pageant-type would leave me cold.
And the stark whiteness of the medium......making a statement?
I find the statue incredibly sensuous.
Remember, I thought the armlesslessness etc was because the artist had simply done the torso and belly, I did not register the fact that the model was thus unendowed.
Loved it more when I found the truth, because it seemed so bravely sensuous and monumental.....
