Comments on: Marble Women – Remarkable Sculptures

By: fiona mahoro

fiona mahoro — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:26:52 +0000

The art pieces are very wonderful and attractive,for sure it’s having all the forms of beauty for a woman especially african women.as an Artist from uganda christian university,i have appreaciated and i promise to apply what i have viewed to improve on my sculture pieces.keep it up for the good work done.fifi

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:41:12 +0000

Really interesting works!

By: amy

amy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:28:03 +0000

did someone say sleazy ladies? c,mon tell urselves the truth, yáll want to look like zis, the poor fellow ure flaying just wanted to show u how sex should be,dont act so pure,you all have sex,dont u?, besides,im sure he is trying to depict how the woman should look to a man when they are experiencing coition. some say its a divine experience. i think u all should see this that way. he is trying to show u how u look to him when ure having sex. its, quite simply imaginative erotica…..

By: Don Cantrell

Don Cantrell — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:42:22 +0000

It’s great to see so many artists and critics at one location.
I noticed the insightful way you admired and/or criticized the artist for his/her work. I say artist because sculpturing is an art, like any other talent. The tactful way of admiring the “Ass man/woman”, and the clarification of the “rapist” and “violence”.
Please, before you chastise this artist too much, did you really look at the work? Did you see that the artist had problems with proportioning the waist with the rest of the body? That all of the bottoms were the same shape? I doubt it. You were busy checking out the “ass’ or presenting a “Harper Valley” attitude. I wish that I could do as half as good as this artist. You may choose what you wish to work with, but you can’t choose artistry. That takes talent and hard work. Personally, I’m a face guy. I love the eyes and cheek bone area. But I so envious of the smoothness of the work and details. As for you simple admirers, hurray for looking beyond the dying leaf and seeing the beauty of Fall.

By: Johnny Serresseque

Johnny Serresseque — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:28:33 +0000

Trash is trash, porn is porn,
Whether by film, or sculpture born.
Sleazy ladies here for sale,
A permanent piece of schlock

Or tail.

By: Ohnojojo

Ohnojojo — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:22:21 +0000

Did someone say rape?… and violence? against women? WOOHOO!!!, Sounds like a good time to me.

By: the0ne

the0ne — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:49:46 +0000

great asses

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:57:40 +0000

Too many extreme feminists commenting. I liked the art, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder I suppose. Reminds me of the women in comic books. Women of this caliber do exist you know. I especially liked the wooden sculptures.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:05:22 +0000

I think most of you are looking too far into this. What if that happens to be the part most attractive on a woman for the artist. If this artist is a man, than he is therefore a man. Why are you looking so far into as to say it shows rape and violence. You think he would post these pictures to show he is a rapist. Get over the feminist view and just look for it as it is. Yes the are a bit Risqué but get past your views and actually look the pictures and see the that a girl’s body is beautiful. So, this artist is just accenting a specific part. Get Over It. Its nice work.

By: a (female) art student

a (female) art student — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:07:14 +0000

If any of you would care to do the research you would realize that many sculptors – especially those who work with carving marble – will carve a basic form and then might view that basic form as a finished sculpture; with or without a face. Biggest example is Michelangelo, look up his later sculptures and you’ll see carvings much like the ones here: bodies with an arm, and maybe a leg, and a rear-end and back showing, but other than that one big chunk of marble; in some of his latest works he would even hardly chip away at all, leaving just stomachs and groin regions, or backs and rear-ends. If this artist here follows Michelangelo’s school of thought then he or she believes that there is already a sculpture inside of the marble that is waiting to be chiseled out, and that often enough the sculpture that is waiting just doesn’t need to be finished.

As for the sexism, it’s hard for me to see. As an artist I just see beautiful forms and masses, and the fact that they were unfinished just helped me come to the conclusion that the artist wanted to emulate the natural curvature of the female form. Faces would have distracted from the sculptures because it would have drawn attention away from the organic lines.

Finally, these photographs are the photographer’s interpretation of the art-piece. To judge these pieces of art from one singular picture of them, and not to look at them in the space that they are to be presented in, is literally like judging a book by its cover. If you want to have the full experience of a sculpture it is nothing like simply viewing a screen-sized picture of the Mona Lisa and moving on. You cannot judge a sculpture (which is THREE-DIMENSIONAL) by photographs alone, you have to be able to view it all around.

Drawing your own conclusions is fine, but don’t expect them to be well-educated if you cannot view the full piece.