Michelangelo's David is considered to be the ideal proportions of the human body. But it is not something that nature could produce, the artist has improved on nature and therefore it is an idealism sculpture.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Idealism
A specific type of artist distortion is idealism. Idealism is when an artist creates an image not how it is in nature, but how it would be ideally.
Michelangelo's David is considered to be the ideal proportions of the human body. But it is not something that nature could produce, the artist has improved on nature and therefore it is an idealism sculpture.
Michelangelo's David is considered to be the ideal proportions of the human body. But it is not something that nature could produce, the artist has improved on nature and therefore it is an idealism sculpture.
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