/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4068627
Mephistophele and Margarita double sculpture

>>4068629
Et toujours et Jamais

so morbidly romantic and intimate...

>>4068631
Satyr and Bacchante

they cute, I love how playful they are

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Venus Callipyge ('Beautiful buttocks'). Roman copy of lost Greek original, restoration and head 18th cent.

The sexiest bum in antiquity imo

>>4068627
the education back then teaches you how to be this good in 2D (anatomy, proportion, five views, etc.) long before the age 23.
The truly wow is how he developed the ingenuity to solve problems the way he did. the critical eye, as well as the work ethic, is probably something he got from good teachers.
But to act on it this early is something that most people aren't able to do until at least 40.

Blinding of Polyphemus, in Sperlonga (AD 1st cent.)

Part of a group of multi-figured sculptures depicting the adventures of Odysseus, installed in a giant cave which the emperor Tiberius used as a dining room

>>4069844
>installed in a giant cave which the emperor Tiberius used as a dining room

that's awesome. I this the only surviving group?

>>4069844
That's fucking incredible

ugolino and his sons

>>4069875
There are three other Sperlonga groups, although none are well preserved. They might have been deliberately smashed up by early Christians.

The (now lost) Greek originals from which they were copied were probably made by the same three sculptors as the Loakoon (pic is of Roman copy, original also lost).

>>4068627
You have no idea how good this looks in person, no photo does it justice
It feels like it's moving and spiraling upwards, you feel compelled to walk around it to follow the movement

I want to go to Milan in the near future to see this, I love her.

>>4070388
Man, how long does it take to get good or decent as sculpting? Is it like drawing(4-5 years minimum)?

>>4070018
i never liked this one, dont know why

>>4070390
I think it's more of a money issue to get good at sculpting life-sized figures, buying marble and setting up a place for sculpting must be expensive. As for getting to this level, I don't know. I think skipping generations' worth of teaching in favor of modernist sculpture has lost a lot of the knowledge, new statues just don't look the same. The stuff I've seen around Italy is on another level.
As for general sculpting I only tried 3D and drawing transfers well into it. I was talking the other day with a friend about buying some super sculpey, the movie industry uses sculpture a lot so it's definitely not a lost art.

>>4070388
Beauitful, I've never seen this one before
I love when people express admiration for lesser known sculptures

>>4068627
shitty ass rendering, artist doesnt understand values

Barbarossa statue by Nikolaus Geiger (at the Kyffhäuser Monument)

>>4070388
>>4070408
post your sculpture waifus /ic/

>>4070390
>>4070408

I started sculpting a few months ago, on and off again. I think I am slowly improving. I have never used Sculpey (hope to one day) but would highly reccomend oil-based clay like Monster clay or Chavant, very forgiving for someone like me who doesn't really know what he is doing. I actually started with those cheap coloured plasticine blocks that you can get for a few dollars. They are an inexpensive way to see whether you enjoy the medium or not, although you can't bake them or make molds, and are too soft for detail. Basic forms are what you want to master to begin with anyway

>>4070408
It's insanely expensive. Sculpting is by far my favorite art form and I love messing around with clay and other softer materials. But marble is ridiculous. I do it as a hobby and was interested in getting a large block of raw marble to practice with.

The only places I can find to get actual raw BLOCKS of marble, not slabs which are predominitaly used for bench tops and tiling, and are also polished, but actual blocks, are building suppliers and you have to buy in tons and in quantity.

Example. You can buy a minimum of 20 tons of dip marble from Iran at $130 a ton. That's $2600 for the order, you have to factor in shipping which would also be high since it would need to be freighted. Then you have to store the marble. You aren't gonna be storing 20 tons of marble in your backyard.

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>>4071885
mind showing us some of your work anon?

>>4071939
I don't have any photos, I'm not good by any means. I just enjoy making stuff with my hands. Marble is where I wanted to actually do good work.

I wonder why bent oder poses with flashing the pink were no thing with these,or softporn, its beautiful, and i'm pretty sure they havnt had different thoughts about vulgarity back then

>>4071948
Are you a professional youtube comment writer?

>>4071948
because you're a cumbrain with abysmal taste

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>>4073216
>that waist
>those hips
>plump breasts not to small not to big

no homo, but holy shit 19th century sculptures had great taste in women's body. Not to thin, not too thicc, they just look so graceful

>>4073422
I agree they're peak aesthetics

>>4071948
christians smashed quite a few greek or roman statues they felt were too vulgar, a lot of the ones with no nose were vandalized by them or had a cross carved into the head

>>4068627

no media distraction
dedicated to his craft
space
time
education
no fast food making the mind vapid

>>4073422
Give them anime faces and i would glue it

>>4068627
Please don't let this thread die! I really love sculptures

>>4073422
Let's post more beautiful sculptures

Any places you guys can recommend to get more of these?

>>4068627
Pluto's back is broken; his figure extravagant, without character, nobleness of expression, and its outline bad; the female one no better

>>4074740
comfy

>>4074904
I agree. I think the head of Pluto is vulgarly gay; his crown and beard give him a ridiculous air, while the muscles are strongly marked and the figure poses. It is not a true divinity, but a decorative god.

>>4074904
Yes I'm certain you surely know more about aesthetics than an old master sculptor

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>>4074991
Any actual counterarguments? Without appeal to authority, preferrably.

>>4073422

Anyone know the sculptor?

>>4075386
Ambrogio Borghi

>>4071869
I was smitten the second time I went to Hearst Castle.

>>4069876
this and the Pan and Psyche one is so wholesome

>>4077042
>"Other women don't think I'm funny because they don't understand satire!"

>>4071869
My desires are... unconventional.

>>4077169
do I get a lewd version with that YCH

>>4077176
Only this pinup