• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Also it was built by the USSR. I could accept Soviet post-revolutionary art geometric influence as a reason if the rest of the sculpture wasn’t so much more precise. The rest of the fabric drapes well enough over more irregular curves.

    The face has that geometric Soviet thing going too. I think this is the answer even if it was questionably executed.

    It just makes me think of a modern steel Michelangelo interpretation of breasts on the Tomb of De Medici (nsfw? Nude marble statue breasts)

    WTF. Had he never seen an actual woman?

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      1 year ago

      There were rumours about his sexuality, I have no idea if that is true. But the whole Catholic purity thing about viewing bodies of the other sex, combined with the exclusion of women as paid artists, led to some really terrible breasts on otherwise realistic figures for a long time in Western European art.

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        1 year ago

        So this is actually not that weird? Like, everyone that saw this thing must have thought “WTF they don’t come out of the armpit (of an otherwise male-ish torso)”.