From:
"Clive Murray-White" <clivemw@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:47:18 +1000
Subject:
Pieta Del Duomo
Dear John,
You wrote:
Quoted text begins."I am not an art historian nor do I profess to have any experience that
would
justify my own opinion, but if this is true then isn't this just a piece in
various stages of progression instead of a study in textures?"
End of quote.
Why "instead"? I'd much prefer "and".
"Wouldn't Michelangelo have finished the work with the same high polish
which he used on
his other finished works such as Moses and the Pieta in St. Peter's?"
This is one of those perpetual questions: the unfinished Michelangelo's, the
so-called unfinished Michelangelo's, the finished Michelangelo's that don't
look finished etc. This is certainly a poorly resolved M but even in that
state it isn't half bad, you'd have to admit. The thing about the
"unfinished" Michelangelo's is that many sculptors have been prepared to
choose to see them as finished.
Clearly they were encouraged to do so because there are quite a number of
finished Michelangelo's that contain the same variety of textures.
My last point here is that as sculptors we should dare to ignore art
historians I'm a great believer in the axiom We make it, they interpret what
we've done. We can survive without them but they can't do without us.
Best regards Clive
Sculptor Clive Murray-White
Cowwarr Art Space
Cowwarr Gippsland Vic. Aus.
Ph: 03 51489321 Fax 0351489498
E-mail: clivemw@---------------
Web: www.cowwarr.com
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