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Why Michelangelo Matters
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| 09/06
| Theodore K. Rabb
Posted on 09/13/2006 3:28:03 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
What is it, in this age of hype and empty celebrity, that makes the name of Michelangelo so magnetic? One can perhaps understand the draw when Van Gogh or the Impressionists take over a museum. These are the prophets of a modern sensibility: lyrical, colorful, yet with an edge of experimentation and a tinge of revolt. Michelangelo, by contrast, is remote, often deliberately unapproachable, cerebral, scathingly hard on himself (and all around him), and devoted to values, both aesthetic and spiritual, that are now long gone.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: art; michelangelo
I love Michelangelo's work. He was an amazing painter, sculptor, and architect. No other artist has that claim. Plus there is a wonderful tension in his art: epitomizing the very struggle of life itself. It is this that resounds through the ages.
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To: Republicanprofessor
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posted on
09/13/2006 3:48:54 AM PDT
by
Dante3
To: Republicanprofessor
![](http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/40/300px-TMNTGroup.jpg)
Leonardo, Donatello and Raphael couldn't be reached for comment...
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posted on
09/13/2006 5:13:24 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(9-11, 5 years later...NEVER forget!)
To: Republicanprofessor
As usual, the reviewer reads more into the work than the creator intended.
Otherwise, it was an excellent read. Thanks, RP.
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posted on
09/13/2006 5:51:16 AM PDT
by
kitkat
(The first step down to hell is to deny the existence of evil.)
To: Republicanprofessor
Michaelangelo is not important. What is important is what comes through Michaelangelo, the endless streams of qualities and attributes that we relate to, the profoundity of expression for the worldly and unworldly. Michaelangelo holds a mirror up to the natural and supernatural and the frailty of his flesh never gets in the way. Compared to Beethoven, we don't have all the near misses, a notebook of imperfect possibilities and many drafts; rather there is perfection in everything. Like a jazz musician there is never a wrong note, only endless variations on life even amongst the simple throw away sketches. This leads me to conclude that there never was a Michaelangelo the artist, only the person in the guise of greatness for whom the greatness act through within a visible medium.
To: Republicanprofessor
He was an amazing painter, sculptor, and architect. No other artist has that claim. How about Da Vinci?
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posted on
09/13/2006 7:48:30 AM PDT
by
LexBaird
(Another member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/NWO/Illuminati conspiracy for global domination!)
To: Republicanprofessor
>Michelangelo
![](http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Images/philosophy-shop/michelangelo-adam-eve-faith-300.jpg) |
Wilson Key's question: Just what were Adam and Eve doing right before
Michelangelo snapped his famous photograph of the young couple . . .
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To: Republicanprofessor
Also, perhaps, Phidias. Although none of his paintings survive, he was reputed to be a master of that as well as sculpture and architecture.
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posted on
09/13/2006 7:54:04 AM PDT
by
LexBaird
(Another member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/NWO/Illuminati conspiracy for global domination!)
To: theFIRMbss
Lewinski.
Interesting. The medium truly is the massage.
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