If you do a little bit of reading about giacometti youll find out that he studied art most of his life, and began sculpture the traditional way, sculpting folks with normal roughly proportions. He knows his shit, but maybe he got bored, maybe he found more interest in elongating the limbs and making stuff razor thin -…
Thank you for the response, Pior. I hadn't actually expected you to like this kind of art, since I really love your work, but don't even remotely care for modernism. I still don't quite understand, though. I can imagine that baroque is a bit too much for some people's tastes, but neoclassicism can really be quite tame in…
Yeah what nick says. Having a strong personal opinion is cool and all, but calling a Giacometti, and l'Homme Qui Marche nonetheless, a turd ... it kinda sickens me. Okay it does't look like a greek bust but hey thats kindof not the point. Take it for what it is, and don't judge a sculpture by a mere jpg of it. And no I am…
Ok, putting skill aside and looking at the work of say Jackson Pollock invokes no feelings yet people bought it for ridiculous amounts of money because it was cool to do so, the same applies here as I hope to demonstrate... To answer your second question, they are all sculptures and the last two are modern ones so how…
Buying art is not so much about the art itself but the ego or story or reasoning that goes along with it and then being able to perpetuate that value further with some obscene price point or some intellectual response. Thats what makes this thing so amazing. Not because it actually is some stellar work of art but because…