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To: annalex; Romulus
It looks like someone has sculpted one of those excessively primitive line-drawings which frequently adorn missalettes. Some of the other exampes on the page you got that one from look even more so.

The proportions are all wrong ... hands too small, feet too big, arm length ratio all wrong (in another one His arms are longer, proportionally, than a gorilla's), the body 'way too small for the legs. And there's no inscription. The total nudity is the least of the problems, if indeed it is a problem.

52 posted on 02/18/2005 10:50:21 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Yes. Modernity cannot express a thought without making a cartoon character out of the subject matter. This is a given, -- you just cannot criticize modern art by pointing out the exaggerrated anatomy. The esthetics here are from a children book (I am reminded of Maurice Sendak's illustrations). This is part of the sentimentalization of art Romulus and I are talking about.

It is not kitsch though.

I like Giacometti's crucifix on the Pope's staff, and it is exaggerrated anatomy too, and very modern. But Giacometti does not condescend to me in the way this artist does.


54 posted on 02/18/2005 10:58:55 AM PST by annalex
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