GCMP, as pior said, true art is not about the skill, but about the impression it invokes in you. Also, comparing those sculptures is almost like comparing cinema with music.
His sculptures are nice but staring at his portrait paintings while on LSD will win u over. ( and not on google image. go to an actual exhibit. ditto fer the sculpts )
Looks like a cave painting turned into a sculpture. It would be cool if he made some wierd looking buffalo herds or deer to go with it. Then take pictures of it in a cave! ..profit?
For some it's beautiful, for others it's not. It evokes a different emotion for me. To be honest, that sculpture freaks me out. That's a powerful and personal enough message to me. If I was lost in a forest lit only by moonlight and I found this thing in the middle of nowhere, I would probably piss myself.
It's a matter of taste, there are pieces of art that are considered to be great art amongst nearly everyone who sees them, even though I detest having to follow the herd I detest lying to myself even more. As you can tell I feel very strongly about this so maybe an example is in order... Classical sculpture... Contemporary…
I'll agree with the defenders of Giacometti that the impression is more important than the amount or complexity of the detail that is shown. I do not, however, understand how you could consider a statue like this, which is too poorly defined to even have a facial expression, to leave more of an impression than, say,…
Or gun. It's hard to call any art crap, someone somewhere will love it, all you can really say is you don't like it. In this case, I don't. I've got a hand carved wooden sculpture here, about 2 ft tall of an African hunter dude that I think is way better, and probably only worth about $100.
Crikey, open your minds people. Good art teaches you a new way of looking at things. If there was no Piet Mondrian and his theories of colour and compasition then there would have been no Mirrors Edge, one of the most striking games to come out recently (not much fun but that's another thread!). That Giacometti sculpture…