'The Double Statue of Mephistopheles and Margaret.' Sculptor unknown. Made in the 19th century from a single piece of sycamore, and now preserved in the Salar Jung Museum in India.
ah, yes, that particularly disgusting sculptor and typeface designer...
...But consider the next sculptor who builds a doll with a recording in its belly, that it may groan beneath his blows; consider a doll which, when beaten, begs for mercy, no longer a crude idol, but a homeostat;... 2/x
A Russian sculpture for a small theme park there. The sculptor uses this character in others like this one called "Monument to Happiness."
The chainsaw one is great though bc it's like 10 guys making statues of bears to go outside of rural BBQ restated one severe German abstract sculptor woman
Oh absolutely. I love the story of the sculptor who was hired to carve Satan and the clergy thought he was too sexy, so they hired his brother who made an EVEN SEXIER ONE. It’s an ongoing problem.
"How can beauty that is living be anything but true? So let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair Let me dance in front of people without a care Let me be naked alone with nobody there"
