At 2/28/16 04:34 AM, linda-mota wrote:
At 2/28/16 01:26 AM, yodaddyo wrote:
At 2/24/16 03:39 AM, linda-mota wrote:
I've studied his stuff through undergrad and grad and before i make comments i have to ask is this for an assignment? Because this sounds like a question for an assignment lol.
Well, I am excited you are studying this, but, no, it's not for an assignment. I just find this stuff fascinating.
Studying this is fun, but it's been hampered down since people won't shut the fuck up about Rothko and how great his lame shit is. No joke the last few years everyone's been shoving his stuff down our throat with his retrospective show and it's a fact most people pay attention to artist more who pulled the "an hero". But I think a lot of these people below me already made a good point, though some argue that Michelangelo had some lopsided women because it was obvious he rarely used women models and you get some post op bad titty job looking girls. Though an argument with that was that he preferred to paint men because he was gay. I have a book with his love letters to some dude it's quiet interesting.
I am glad you enjoy studying art. That is a shame people keep talking about how great Rothko is. He really was a terrible artist; he was even worse than Picasso. It is true that Michelangelo's women were awfully masculine. In his defense, female models were hard to come by back in the Renaissance and if you look at the work of some other great artists, you will notice a good portion of their female figures are very muscular and often times oddly proportioned as well. Of course, Michelangelo didn't even make an attempt to really define any feminine features on the women in his art other than their oddly shaped breasts. He was inspired to sculpt and illustrate their breasts like that based on women's body he observed in the morgue that had died from breast cancer. I don't know why he chose to illustrate women so masculine. It is true that he was a homosexual, but lots of other great artists who weren't gay drew both men and women, so it really is as mystery as to why he was so closed off to the idea of drawing feminine bodies. Michelangelo really was an interesting figure, he is an enigma. When Michelangelo was getting close to sixty years old, he fell in love with a young nobleman, one in his early twenties, Tommaso de' Cavalieri. He wrote him love letters and gave him drawings, but Tommaso was not a homosexual, and had a wife and a child. He was, however, very respectful towards Michelangelo, even though he knew he was a homosexual, which was very polite, especially in the era in which they were living. Tommaso was quite open minded for the time, as most anyone else would be imbued with contempt and disgust upon receiving such a letter from a man, no less a man of almost sixty. It is sad that Michelangelo never found himself a partner, but perhaps, in a way, it was also for the best. After all, he wouldn't have made so many great works of art if he was busy with a family. His struggle in dealing with his sexuality was in way, also good. While his homosexuality caused a great deal of turmoil within him due to Judeo-Christian societal taboos, it was one of the many things within him that spurred a great disdain for the papacy. He and Martin Luther were some of the early leaders of the reformation, pointing out atrocities performed by the Catholic Church. Michelangelo was even known to throw paint buckets at the pope, but Michelangelo was such a badass, the Papacy couldn't do anything about it. If they were to cancel any of his commissions or punish him, public opinion on The Catholic Church would surely make a 180. If anyone else were to do such a thing to the Pope, they would surely be put in prison for many years. Michelangelo's dislike of the Catholic Church is one of the many reasons I like him so much. The Catholic Church really is terrible, and Michelangelo, with his great genius, was one of the first people to publicly point out the many problems of the Papacy. His genius was in fact so great, many thought he was divinely imbued with Holy Power, and he gained the nickname Il Divino. Whether or not he believed this I don't know, but it really is amazing that a man with no special abilities was so talented that people believed no normal man could have possibly achieved what he did without help from god. Well, thanks for contributing to the conversation!