and here’s a reproduction of the statue with the colors restored
i honestly think that what we consider the height of sculpture in all of Western civilization being essentially the leftover templates of gaudy pieces of theme park shit to be evidence of the potential merit of found art
“I tried coloring it and then I ruined it”
And you know what the funniest part is? The paint didn’t just wear off over time. A bunch of asshole British historians back in the Victorian era actually went around scrubbing the remaining paint off of Greek and Roman statues - often destroying the fine details of the carving in the process - because the bright colours didn’t fit the dignified image they wished to present of the the cultures they claimed to be heirs to. This process also removed visible evidence of the fact that at least some of the statues thus stripped of paint had originally depicted non-white individuals.
Whenever you look at a Roman statue with a bare marble face, you’re looking at the face of imperialist historical revisionism.
(The missing noses on a lot of Egyptian statues are a similar deal. It’s not that the ancient Egyptians made statues with strangely fragile noses. Many Victorian archaeologists had a habit of chipping the noses off of the statues they brought back, then claiming that they’d found them that way - because with the noses intact, it was too obvious that the statues were meant to depict individuals of black African descent.)
Sorry, I keep reblogging this over and over, the last comment is unbelievable. Wow.
👏👏 BEFRIEND ARTISTS BECAUSE YOU LIKE THEM AND WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH THEM NOT BECAUSE YOU WANT FREE SHIT. DON’T BE *THAT* PERSON. 👏👏
This has happened to me several times, it sucks man.
Never had this happen to me before, but if it did I’d be super angry.
Holy god no
if you befriend an artist just for art, they will know and they will spend the rest of their lives paranoid that all their friends are fake and just want art. It’s manipulative, low and will cause them a lifetime of anxiety and paranoia.
