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Sculptures by Ron Mueck

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moremojo:
I like Mueck's work, but I do sometimes wonder if he's essentially a one-trick pony, basically repeating variations on the same idea. Like so much of contemporary art, I have my doubts as to how much his work will mean in, say, fifty or a hundred years.

My favorite so far of the sculptures I've seen is the 'Pregnant Woman', to which you, Chrissi, felt able to only provide the links. On a side note, are even sculptures, paintings, and drawings subject to the same rules on this forum as are photographs?

Penthesilea:

--- Quote from: moremojo on September 13, 2007, 10:12:38 am ---I like Mueck's work, but I do sometimes wonder if he's essentially a one-trick pony, basically repeating variations on the same idea. Like so much of contemporary art, I have my doubts as to how much his work will mean in, say, fifty or a hundred years.
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I've never heard of Mueck before Shasta posted a link to some of the above sculptures. So I don't know Mueck's work apart from what I've seen by googling him. Judging from it, I'd say you're right: it's all variations of the same theme.
As for his importance to arts now or in hundred years from now: maybe he's not the greatest artist of our time, but he doesn't have to be, does he? I'm not too much into arts in genereral (but also not totally ignorant), I just judge a work of art based on the feelings it evokes in me.
His sculptures leave me amazed, intrigued, admiring and a bit unsettled. I'd like to see some of them in real sometime.



--- Quote ---My favorite so far of the sculptures I've seen is the 'Pregnant Woman', to which you, Chrissi, felt able to only provide the links. On a side note, are even sculptures, paintings, and drawings subject to the same rules on this forum as are photographs?

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I think so. On one side, I find it a pity to cencor art only because some naked body parts are to be seen. On the other side: where to draw the line? Who is to judge what is art and what is "pornographic"? So I stuck to the basic rule that says no genitals and no bare breasts.

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