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Comparisons of Art

name of Michelangelo sculpted David, again using subtractive sculpting with marble. Michelangelo sculpts a naked man and makes his body perfect. He too uses the relaxed position of the S-curve where all of his weight is on his right leg and his left knee is bent which cause his left hip and shoulder to rise. The sculpture is very defined. You can see every definition of his body. Davids head is turned to the left and he is focused on something. You can see the defined lines of where his head is turned. His body is very over exaggerated because his body is perfect; there is not one place where you see fat on his body. His arms are longer than normal arms too. Michelangelo makes David look large and in charge. You see that David is carrying something over his left shoulder. People can assume that the thing that is over his shoulder is his slingshot because of the biblical story of David and Goliath where David killed Goliath with his slingshot. Many people know the story of David and Goliath and how David killed Goliath with his slingshot at this point, it is after the big event and David has just won. He is excited for himself but at the same time he is exhausted because this fight has taken much of his energy. The people around him all want to take a look at he marvelous David who has just slain Goliath. He is trying to relax by putting hie weight on his right foot and he is trying to make himself feel comfortable. All David is thinking about is how he will soon be able to leave the crowd and be alone where he can relax and just be himself. We are now taken into the 20th Century and we are shown a painting called Naked Man painted sometime between 1991and 1992 by Lucian Freud. The first reaction when shown this painting is disgust. You see an old man who is fat and wrinkly. There is no muscle on his body, just fat rolls. Then you see the mans butt crack. He is sitting on what seems to be a small bench with a white ...

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