sweet-davincis-beard:Gian Lorenzo BerniniI can’t help it, I must write about Bernini. I’ll admit tha
sweet-davincis-beard:Gian Lorenzo BerniniI can’t help it, I must write about Bernini. I’ll admit that this might be a rather short and disjointed love letter to a Baroque artist long since past, but such are the late night internal monologues of a Art History Enthusiast after a bottle of cheap Merlot. Bernini never sculpted in marble, he sculpted in flesh. Observing this masters skill and tender love manifested in marble is nothing short of a miracle. When one thinks of marble the idea that come to mind is ‘hard’, ‘brittle’, ‘cold’ and ‘intimidating’. In the hands of Bernini, however, marble is nothing more than a new container of playdough. He is a master. No, more than a master, he’s a God of marble. Let’s make a new religion, shall we? The Worshippers of the Artist Saint Bernini and His Fabulous, Magnificent, Painfully Perfect Works of Art. A little long but I feel we can really make it into a solid church. All biased opinions aside, there really is no arguing what a master Bernini was with marble. For the moment I would like to set aside his chosen subject matter and his personal life just to take this moment in time to appreciate his unparalleled skill in sculpting. I’m a rather skilled artist (if I do say so myself) but if I went at a block of marble with a chisel and hammer, at the end of a few hours I’d have nothing left but a pile of fine marble dust and a few jagged, abstract chunks passed off for horrid attempts at ears. Bernini, though, was able to take marble, an unforgiving, terrifying medium and turn it into flesh. This post isn’t about knowledge, or lecture, of little known facts behind the works. This is just to make you stop and look at art. At these sculptures. These figures. I want you to stop and to think and to observe. The man who created these works of art was no older than 35. He was in love with marble. He made is sing, made it move, made it writhe, made it human. Don’t judge. Don’t critique. Don’t analyze. Just look. Look, and love, and feel. -- source link
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