NEW RELEASES
But he got it right with David
From my daily calendar:
Michelangelo believed that the depiction of the naked body, particularly those of men, represented art’s highest achievement. So deep was his devotion to the male nude that even his female nudes look like men. His sculpture Night, for example,
features strange balloon-shaped breasts emerging from the muscular abdomen of a man. That Michelangelo disliked using female models was perhaps due to ignorance – some scholars question whether he ever saw a naked woman. It sounds outlandish, but it’s possible. The artist never married, and his rare relationships with women were purely platonic. Michelangelo frequently advocated abstinence, which he believed prolonged life. Given that he died shortly before his 89 birthday, perhaps he was on to something.
That’s a pitiful way to go through life. I disagree with the whole abstinence idea in general. Obviously, considering what I write.
Besides, now this lady looks like every Playboy Bunny with implants.
So this is our dear fellow, Michelangelo. Perhaps he’s depressed from that whole abstinence thing. Or maybe it had to do with all that time in the Vatican.
I tend to ignore the personal lives of the artists I admire. I try to focus on their work, instead. In this case, however, it is hard to not wonder about just what was in his head when he created those implant-style breasts just above the six-pack abs. In those days, women were round and a little on the heavy side. They looked somewhat like me before I mysteriously dropped 25 pounds last year.
Considering the health issues of the time, it was probably a good thing that he believed in abstinence. Othewise, he never would have made it to 89 with all those sexually transmitted diseases crawling around. He was a brilliant man, so maybe he knew more than he was telling.