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The hands are deliberately enlarged for visual effect, because the statue was sculpted to be viewed from the pews below. Viewed from below, the hands appear normal.

This Velasquez painting, where the horse's thick body and short legs are out of proportion, was also meant to be viewed from below. It was intended to hang high on the wall of the Duke's home, as it does today in the Prado Museum.

He only did that with his equestrian paintings.

'The peculiar thickness of the horse's abdomen may have been calculated by Velázquez to appear normal when the portrait was viewed from below,'

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Are there any sculptors in the same league today?

Eye of the beholder.

This 2015 Antony Gormley piece, will set you back $6 million.

One more point I'd like to make.


That statue will likely be pulled down by activists, since the person portrayed is white.

Implying the person was a white supremacist (slavery, Hitler, Christianity, England, etc).

While whites might only be about 15% or so of the global population, the trend appears to be continued.

In the USA, it's a little more drastic because whites are the majority.

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Eye of the beholder.

I saw this in an art museum in SC. I like to take pics of peices in art museums where I can't believe it's considered art.

Norway Angry sculpture park

In some ways we retain our puritan origins. Haesindang Park in South Korea is dedicated to sculptures of penises. No controversy that I am aware of. I’m told it attracts a family oriented crowd.

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Eye of the beholder.

This 2015 Antony Gormley piece, will set you back $6 million.

What is the size of this? Need to see it next to something for scale.

A little larger than a rubik's cube.

4.8 × 3.3 × 4.5 inches

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Are there any sculptors in the same league today?

The last one who arguably came close to that level of greatness was probably Auguste Rodin, but he died over 100 years ago.

Rodin did not carve stone. He modeled in clay, for others to carve in marble, or cast in bronze.

Today they carve their statues out of wax or clay, and cast them in bronze.

14 years ago. Rapid City, SD. In a library that doubled as a post office, when an artist walked in carrying a three foot tall copy of his President Tyler statue. Explaining to the local postmaster, that he just finished it. Enjoyed speaking with him. He described his technique and how he studied his subjects. Prior to that, he created the Eisenhower statue. He told me, Eisenhower designed the jacket that he wore, so he put it on the statue. The Eisenhower jacket.

Good thing this law stopped the Nashville shooter today.

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Effective July 1, 2021, most adults will be allowed to carry a handgun or other firearm in Tennessee without a permit, whether openly or concealed. The new legislation eliminates the permit requirement for eligible gun owners, as well as the misdemeanor offense of carrying a handgun without a permit.