Who are the top five sculptors in Western history? For me it's1. Thorvaldsen2. Phidias3. Giambologna4. Maillol5. Breker
>>7274424Bernini will always be number one.
>>7274426>decadent baroque artNo thank you. Giambologna is as far as I'll go in that line of development.
>>7274424>no Michelangelo la pieta changed the course of humanity
>>7274435But why?nta btw
>>7274424low int
>>7274424Number 1 is whoever made this thing
>>7274470A based man of sculture
>>7274455Bernini is Baroque. It is the last creative burst of the dying art of sculpture, before its revival with Neoclassicism. It has lost the noble simplicity and harmony of Renaissance sculpture, it has long since given up any concern with Antiquity, and Giambologna contributed to this development, but Giambologna was still a Renaissance sculptor, he is still within the world of Michelangelo, and the virtuosoism of his art never overtook its fundamentally Renaissance character. But with Bernini everything from the Renaissance is thrown to the side, everything is now about movement and spectacle and virtuosic skill. It's brilliant, but decadent.I'm meming it up, but this is the general view of Baroque sculpture.
>>7274479>>7274470> PAJEEEEEEEEEETS!!
>>7274494>>7274446>>7274460>>7274435>>7274426>>7274424> WHITE CISGENDERED 28 MALE NEEERDYYY HIPSTEEEEEEEEEEEER(more sophisticated than pajeets, aren't they, must be reflected in the title)
>>7274494Appreciate the elaboration.Personally I like Bernini the most but I can't say I have looked so much into sculptors.
>>72744241.Bernini2.Michelangelo3.Canova4.Giovanni Pisano5. Idk i'll just pick either thorvaldsen or one of the pergamene school masters
>>7274514how is this a hipster perspective and how can you possibly feel so passionate about your dumbass take
>>7274424I am intrigued Anon, where could I find a good history of sculpure and learn more?
>>7274424Polykleitos
>>7275032> how is this a hipster perspectiveYou asked for it:> [...] and the word hipster is often used as a pejorative for someone who is pretentious or overly concerned with appearing trendy.[4]ಠ‿ಠ>how can you possibly feel so passionate about your dumbass take> passionateYou white cisgenders 28 male nerdy hipsters ARE passionate about your dumbass take. Typical projection after someone stroke the right chord, here with a light joke.My gosh you guys are pathetic.
>>7277923epic
>>7278059I do realy pity them though. The behavioral pattern they're displaying is common, and the causes are relatively easy to discern.Mankind is soo fucked up atm
>>7274470A truly based sculptor would make erotic depictions of the virgin Mary without neglecting the fact that she was 12
>>7274424>>7274435What do you think about Rodin?
Giovanni Strazza and his translucent fabrics are up there
>>7278896same with Giuseppe Sanmartino
>>7278898FAGGOT OP will seethe on this one
>>7274424Take Breker off that list, his works are stiff and generic. He's a completely mediocre sculptor that can't hold a candle to the rest in your list. Atleast replace him with Leighton who was a sculptor merely secondary to his painting work.
>>7278898Imagine a sculptor board, if someone posted this people would kill themselves or go crazy because they will never reach a fraction of this level
>>7278898my bad it was Francesco Queirolo who made this sculpture!
>>7278982it would be a board of anime figurine makers or some pop culture/oc shit just like how it is with this board. it's mostly people on here who have not carved anything in any medium that have illusions that they would be making life-size marble sculptures like from classical to 19th century if they were to sculpt something.
>>7278898Seeing sculptors working nowadays and realizing the fact that Francesco Queirolo did it without power tools makes it ten times more impressive.
>>7274424Lately I've been very intruiged by Clemente Susini's anatomical wax models, especially his Anatomical Venus models. The combination of the grotesque and beautiful and art and science is fascinating
>>7278430Ruined sculpture forever. Maillol tried to save it.
>>7278920This is a statement that only someone who knows NOTHING about sculpture could make. You're just looking at Breker's works with a primitive eye, and the thought "this is stiff" pops into your head, but that doesn't translate into being an accurate assessment of his art. Maillol aptly referred to Breker as the Michelangelo of Germany, you just to have to learn more to understand why. An artist can both be a genius, and have certain innocuous stylistic traits that restrict their art from going into different areas; as you say, Breker is "stiff", although I disagree with that term, it's certainly true that he lacks the typical Latinate sensuousness, but it's not due to an inferiority of sculptural ability, but rather a difference in cultural origin. He's a German through and through, and his sculpture reflects that. What "German" here means, for sculpture, is a greater understanding of Greek sculpture, and hence you will find a similar "stiffness" (to use your misused term) in much Antique Greek sculpture. But that is because it has a different artistic ideal to Baroque sensuality. It is more concerned with embodying an idea of the human, with closer ties to real bodily activity, than being a beautiful work of art or architectural ornament. Also, Breker is a man of many styles, and certain stylistic traits which may at first appear inescapable restrictions of his art, may in fact have a highly expressive potential of their own which he purposefully chooses. I believe this is the case, since I have seen his masterful works in ulterior styles.This is just a brief example of the artistic knowledge and aesthetic diaíresis necessary for the proper appreciation of an artist.I know Breker is often only loved because people have a Nazi sympathy for his subjects, but in the same way too many midwits dismiss him only because his subjects have their association with Nazism.
>>7280696As I thought, OP is a pure breed faggot.
>>7277923I don't get it
>>7280922Maillol is far from generic Neoclassism. He showed a new way, that was both progressive and retained the values of the human form.>As far as art history is concerned, Maillol appeared as the counterpoint to Rodin, whose style has undisputedly dominated an entire epoch. Maillol undertook anew the primal power of Nature.>Those works of Maillol, whhich mark his fruitful artistic activity one after the other, will never violate the pattern he set at the beginning of his career. These are variations on the same theme: the voluminous, sensual woman with the body and the formal security of a V century Greek sculpture- Arno Breker
>>7282076Good bait. lmao
>>7283192I'm completely serious.
>>72744241. Me
>>7278163can you get the source of her age? I imagine it will be pretty hard as it was never even once stated in the bible, but you surely wouldn't make this up, right?
>>7274424Hey OP what about Egyptian sculptures? Those giant statues where cool
>>7280718germans can't make good nudes.
>>7285271Sure, they're great, and culturally very interesting, but they're at a more primitive stage in the development of sculpture.
Sculptures are cool
>>7281156It's a joke. OR IS IT. TA - DA -DAAAAAAAM
BERNINI BEST EVER. PERIOD.
>>7274424carpeaux is delightful
Abstraction in the work of Arno BrekerBy Henry MooreFor me, the realistic portrayal in the work of Arno Breker consists of an accumulation of abstract forms.Each of his representative classical sculptures is divisible into parts which in themselves are proportionate and harmonious. Thus it would be possible to pick out individual sections of the arm of Herald arbitrarily, which could then serve as models for large forms as I develop them.For the observer who can see, the concreteness of Breker's work ultimately reveals the multiplicity of abstraction. Viewed in this way, there is a connection between realism and abstraction. The two trends are compatible if both have their roots in the aesthetic.Arno Breker has the indisputable capability to use his feeling for volume and form in an unsurpassable way in his portrayal of the human form. The interest and esteem which Breker shows for my work I can return in admiration for his work. Breker's glorification of men and of creation may have met with criticism in our time, but this criticism is no standard in the book of history.November 6, 1979
>>7280718Thick neck
>>7274424Riemenschneider.
>>7295974Based choice.
>>7274424lmao OP, you like dick or something ?
my work is not at all like the sculptors mentioned, but it is very unique. I make geometric sculptures, usually out of wood, but occasionally out of stonehope you enjoy
compound of 5 octahedra, maple
6 flowers and 24 leaves, holly woodif you care to see more @asylacorp on instagram
>>7302658>>7302662>>7302664I like these a lot. The first and last remind me of Medieval architectural motifs, when Classical form merged with Medieval design.
>>7274424Lmao the best are all italians get those anglo cucks out, shartie
>>7302794thank you! I see what you mean when I look at the picture you includedI'll look into that style seems like there is a lot I could draw inspiration from
