3/24/11- Andy Warhol

So today we are going to look at Andy Warhol. I didn't want to use him as an example, but I felt his art needed a little light shed on it from my blog. Warhol's use of acrylics, printmaking, and screen printing helped shape art into what it is today, and helped lead the way in the Pop art movement. He got alot of his muse in earlier work from iconic american products and people. Campbell's soups, Coca-Cola, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe are only a few of these.

 

Warhol was shot in 1968, of which he almost died. This influenced alot of his later paintings and screen printings.

This one was done in 1977.

What does it say to you?

3/24/- Second Place

Kyleeflower won second place in my art class's carving competition!
YEAHHHHH!!!
This is how it was displayed...

Outside of color-
I'd say the two look pretty similar!

3/23/11

I was going to carve a hand out of my soap- I melted it and then formed this pitiful looking hand by smashing together the mashed potato-like soap flakes. Really- soap doesn't melt well at all. I was going to have the hand coming out of the marshmallow fluff thing like God's hand coming out of a cloud.

I resolved and carved a piece of cauliflower out of my soap.
I resolved at this when the rest of my ideas failed miserably and I looked at my soap and thought about what it should look like if I were to just go with it. As I carved it started taking shape as a tree- but a tree was too common for me, and I wasn't about to go around carving something that obvious and easy. I am so pleased with my cauliflower!
Its called Kyleeflower- :D

3/22/11- Loon Loon

Deviant art has brought me across some really excellent artists-
one of Loon Loon. I have not figured out her real name, but her photography is really interesting to me, and in times super cute.

She gets her inspiration from nature, the human body and the sexuality of it, and animals.

This picture is just too adorable. The super tired puppy would make a great ad for nike since it is just chilling on a nike sneaker. She takes the innocence of the animal and captures it right as it is happening. She manages to catch it just before it has a fit and goes into it's mini rampage of insanity.

This piece explores the sexuality of the human body while (to me) showing what innocence may be leaving. The long bambi-esque eyelashes scream innocence to me, where the apprehension in the picture is far too much to handle because it seems as if they are about to pull away or just jump into this kiss. It is a feeling that alot of people feel right before that first kiss- it is the "do I do this" moment, the "what if I" moment.

She captures moments in life that we all wish we had taken the time to steal up ourselves but never found the time to. I hope she follows the same type of theme in her pictures, because it captures a piece of ignorance as well as awkwardness.

3/22/11

I changed my idea a bit- I decided to make "swear pops" out of soap and a brownie mold. I was going to smooth out the little squares and insert sticks into them so they looked like suckers. It was going to play off the idea of washing your mouth out with soap- but unfortunately the idea of a stick coming out of the sucker was frowned upon because the soap can't have anything but the soap.

I put the soap in the microwave to melt it and it came out looking like marshmallow fluff, but with a flaky texture. I kind of just wanted to leave the soap in there for the full minute and thirty seconds but I really didn't want to have to clean out the microwave because soap, is ironically hard to clean up!

3/21/11- Steve Bloom

Steve Bloom is an artist out of Reno Nevada who has sort of captivated me today. Since I plan to travel to Reno soon, I hope to possibly see some of his work while I'm down there. He paints with alot of oils and dyes. His vivid colors attract me. I am a vivid color type of person. I enjoy stuff lacking in color, but it is harder for me to get into than a pretty piece full of color- regardless the meaning.

This piece was actually the poster work for Reno's Artown, which was featured recently. Artown is an event that runs for the entirety of the month of July in Reno Nevada. I imagine that this piece was there in full size rather than just on the poster for the event. I love the blending and use of deep purples that contrast with the greens and compliment the yellows. This picture by Steve Bloom is absolutely beautiful. There are actually 2 men online featured as artists under the name Steve Bloom, to make sure you get the right one, he isn't the one who lives in Africa (obviously)

3/20/11

Soap or Spam?
I chose soap.
Spam makes me get the heebie jeebies. I know... I'm a weird duck, but roughly 90% of my class chose soap due to the vile nature of Spam.

My idea: I'm going to make a soap sculpture consisting of rings made of soap- giving new meaning to the words "soap ring".
You can wear them to wash your hands and never need a bar of soap again! Just wear your soap ring or wash ring to any social gathering and be amazed at the response your friends give you! Then when you need to wash your hands, don't worry about finding a sink with soap, you can use the spigot outside and your soap ring to ensure the cleanest of hands.

Yeah--- like that will sell!
ha ha!

3/18/11- Ramon San Andres R.

Photography is overlooked frequently on my blog. I will look at it occasionally, but it is usually when I look at transformations that have been perfomed on the photograph, such as the ones of Erica and I. Ramon San Andres R. seems to have captured my attention with his attention to detail and color.

I like how he takes the metal buildings and combines them with the beauty of the sky. Those two things go together like Mac & Cheese. I feel that his art is not completely original though in the fact that a lot of pictures out now in the publishing world feature this same theme. Sky and buildings. Modern things such as metal and concrete are a very prominent feature in photography now days.

Ramon San Andres R. seems to derive his inspiration from random things as well as buildings and people. He mostly does photography, but has a few paintings as well, which I find to be lacking in something for my taste.

This piece below makes me smile every time I stumble across it.

It is so innocent yet there is something about it that kind of makes you question it's intention.

3/17/11

My book project was a success! After my dad and I replaced the window in my car, I gathered up a bunch of it in a felt bag so that I could use it for my project. I used the inverted shape of the hamburger bun to create what looked like a clam shell. I dumped the glass in the middle of the "Obama shell" and placed the rock that flew through my window in the middle with the metal clip that held the window up.

When you get up close you can see the obama print in the paper itself. I tried to leave pictures showing through the different papers so people would question what book I used. 

I entitled this piece "$20.00 and gum" because that was all the thief stole from my car. I felt it had a nice ring to it, and was a fairly straight forward name that was comical.

 

 

3/16/11- Alex Pardee

Born in in 1976 with influences from 80's horror flicks, pop art, graffiti and gangster rap.
He uses alot of dyes, pen, and ink sort of materials but is trying to move more towards acrylic paints and oils. I really enjoy his art because some of it scares me while it intrigues me.

 

This one is entitled Escaped Conviction. It is very vivid, and the color is initially what attracted me to it. When I finally looked at it closer than a thumbnail, I realized how morbid and heinous this actually is.

Guilty Smurf

Guilty much? Ah I see you've got blood on your hands, that means you must have done something.

The painting above frightens me. Smurfs don't really look like that, they just sort of "resemble" that. I really dislike the use of the smurf in this. He represents innocence but is totally countered by the guilt of the blood on his hands

3/15/11

I no longer have a window in my car---
It was smashed out at 6:30 this morning while I was getting ready for work. I hope whoever stole out of my car realized that they didn't even get anything! They just stole an empty bag- so they lose. I feel a little triumphant over the thief because they didn't get anything!

On a sad note- the rock landed on my hamburger bun- yes my Obama paper bun for my hamburger book.
Now the top shell is inverted into the bottom shell, full of glass. I'm rather annoyed because now I have to either start over or incorporate this into my project, which I probably will add this into my project because the glass is really cool. It didn't break like other glasses do- with pointy, long, sharp shards everywhere. It broke into these little beads that have a really interesting pattern throughout them. It looks like this, although this isn't my photo because I haven't taken any close up pictures of the glass. It could make for something really impressive.

3/14/11

I've been really into a site called Deviantart.com- it is full of artists just waiting for someone to take notice of them. It is a really great outlet for work, especially if you have a following of people, because then it prompts you to do more art for them. When people like you, they tend to follow your work, which propels you forward. At least that is the way it is with me. If someone comments on how they enjoy my art, I feel obligated to continue to produce things that they appreciate because they like me. I know I should make art for myself, but when people like it, it makes it all the easier to finish your work and proceed forward.
Have a nice day everyone! It is a little rainy today!

3/14/11- Jennell Brunner

Jennelle is actually a good friend of mine. We went to high school together in Middleton, and I've always appreciated her art. Next to Andy Goldsworthy, I would say that she is my second favorite artist.
I've actually had the opportunity to watch her grow as an artist over the last 7 years since I met her, and her creativity never ceases to amaze me.

 These pieces are all very large and individual pieces that go together entitled my sins.

In order they go:

Wrath, Gluttony, Greed, Envy, Sloth, Pride, Lust

She never ceases to amaze me. She draws her inspirations from things around her. I can't even begin to assess the deep reaches of her mind because her art work is so amazing that I can't even begin to fathom where she gets her creativity.

 

This one is entitled "Crazy Cat Lady" which is actually fairly fitting, since this is a portrait of my best friend Erica Ellington. This draws off of Erica's mild insanity (which is why she is my favorite0 and the fact that Erica only has black cats. They literally flock to her. She currently owns 3, one of which she recently adopted because it is severely handicapped and allergic to its own teeth. Jennelle drew it for Erica's 17th birthday present. It seriously looks EXACTLY like Erica. I wish I could pull a picture of Erica to post on here, but the picture Jennelle used isn't online anywhere I can find, and she now lives in Moscow.

Her parents are really cool people, and I can see where Jennelle gets her personality and unique sense of life. Her parents actually traveled with a renaissance fair for most of her child hood. I can see this as being a real source of inspiration for her. She never limits herself on what media she uses to make her art, but usually they are something that is 2D.

She has done a couple pictures of me as well over the years that were done on the computer. She can do anything with anything. She is AMAZING!

 

Above is Me in "Dark Soda" based off a picture I took my Sophomore year of HS.

Below on the right is me in "Supergirl" derived from a picture taken at a waterfall where I was on the edge of a cliff. She took my love of superman and implied it as a theme. These two were also done by Jennelle

 

3/9/11- Janine Anoti

Janine Anoti is not the weirdest artist I've explored, but she is kind of out there in a really good way. She uses many different types of mixed media to show her amazing talent to the world. She uses Chocolate, Soap, electric cords, fabric, yarn, paint, photography, and so much more to create her master pieces.

What inspires her is the freedom that new things bring, and the idea of role reversal, but really I have no clue where she draws her inspiration from. She has a cow drinking out of a bathtub that she is in in her piece entitled EUREKA. It is the role reversal one. it looks like the cow is drinking from her breast actually.

Her piece Lick and Lather made up of 14 portrait busts, cast of a model of herself and mounted on look-a-like ancient classical pedestals. Seven statues were cast in white soap, and the other seven in brown chocolate, and then reshaped by the rather subjective acts which licking it over and over again, and with the frothing up of bubbles from her spit, foam-in one statue, the features were completely erased.

 

 

3/8/11 Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was a very interesting woman- I've been looking over her work and it is all a bit macabre as well as awkward. Don't get me wrong, I really like awkward because that is what makes good art.

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”  –Frida Kahlo


Her paintings often depict her in various situations. Always the same face structure, she never changes her beauty to enhance it or to degrade it. To her, that is what she looks like, so that is what we see.


She was not really popular until after she died, but then again, Michael Jackson's big comeback was right after he died as well. When you die, that is when you become a hot ticket item.

The painting above depicts her at the age of 18, when she was in a tragic bus accident that impaled her upon a metal pole. As you see down the inside of her, there is the pole. She drew her inspiration from the hardships that she suffered in life, such as her husband cheating on her with her own sister, and then getting a divorce because she cheated on him.

 

3/5/11- Barbara Kruger

Art that pops right off the page and art that makes you think, that is what Barbara Kruger's art does. Her photos that she has doctored have such a distinct quality about all of them that make you say, hey that is by Barbara Kruger! She uses pictures circa 1940's through 1950's and transforms them into a complete different thing than they were before. She changes the meaning of each one individually in order to convey a bigger and bolder meaning.

This installment above took up an entire room at the Mary Boone gallery in 1991. Her colors speak volumes about her art. She uses shades of Black, but black, white and red compose her work. The white writing on a red surface really screams out at you like a warning sign on a bottle saying "don't drink this!"

 

Her pieces are so urgent, and are always of black and white portraits with the red on them. It makes them seem more important like you have to look at it immediately and absorb the information fast. I bet people do one of two things when they go to a gallery with her stuff, they either go through it super fast because they read everything fast due to the urgency, or they get so caught up in all that is on the walls that they remain in the gallery forever and a day.

3/2/11- The air today

Yes- the air today is kind of epic- in these balloons!
This is the most fun balloon sculpture I've ever seen, and I now feel like a balloon sculpture would be a blast to do in class.

 

Maybe not to this magnitute- but hey I can dream big and aim for the sky right?

"If you can't make lemonade with your lemons, throw them at someone."

That is another idea I have for a project- lemons- paint- and throwing them at a canvas. I think the texture could be really interesting. You have to cut them up first in half both ways and do different types of transformations to make the lemons leave a different type of imprint on the canvas. cut holes in the fruit-

Step on the fruit. you name it you can do it!

Must be something in the air today because I'm feeling wacky and fun--- very spontaneous.

3/1/11

I am going to make a book out of a book that I've been trying to sell back to the bookstore and they won't accept it. Since it is a source of contingency with me, I'm completely okay with ripping it to shreds for my own personal use. It is the Obama first 100 days book that came out to sum up his days in office. I had to buy it for a political science class last year. I never read it because the class never made it to that book, and since I really don't care much for Obama in the first place, I want to be rid of this loathsome piece of coffee table occupant.

I've decided to make a hamburger out of paper mache with it so that it shows the reason that Obama's country is so obese.

2/24/11- Book Artists

Brian Dettmer-
I blew his picture up because I wanted you to see the detail done here in his book. Look at the depth he creates by digging down into the pages. I'm not sure if he wanted you to take the words that he had left on the surface for a value, but I did for everything is intentional in my eyes. Quite a few of the words left over contain a verb, making them do something, or they describe something- Shallow, deep, open. I want to be able to make something this beautiful... but I fear I may need more practice.

 

John Clark-
Altering a book by carving it is enough of a feat in itself, but when you can completely change the story by drawing a gorgeous picture across the pages, then being a book artist takes a new form. John Clark describes himself as a portrait artist. I'm really impressed that he drew this with a sharpie. I can never get my sharpie to cover that well without leaving lines from where I drew on the page. I think the drawing would be easy if you were just overlaying it like he does, it is the sharpie layering that really impresses me--- ha ha, just kidding. I think the picture is pretty neat too.

 

I don't have a picture of the next artist that I am writing about's art. She sews her books together with a needle and thread and uses a press machine from the old days to make her books. If you run your finger over the pages of her books, you can feel the indent from the metal letters having been pressed against the papers. I think this is a really cool thing that she does because it is so hard to do. I really would like to try it, but I can barely stand to touch paper.

2/22/11

What the heck?

Book projects?

I don't understand this--- we're supposed to do what with books?

I guess we're supposed to change the book, but still have it function as somewhat of a book or resemble- I dunno.

 

If it has to look like this, at my level of expertise, I think I'm screwed.

If it can look a bit less extravagant and amazing, I will sure give it one hell of a try. I think my level of expertise reflects something to the effect of a paper airplane or a cootie catcher. Though, I could never actually make a paper airplane that flew very well.

I guess that would make me a terrible plane designer as well...

2/21/11

My transformation project went over fairly well, I chose to replicate (at least attempt to) one of Georgia O'keeffe's paintings called "Red Canna" by tearing apart fake flowers and then gluing them to my canvas. I went to the dollar store and bought 5 bunches of fake flowers, but I had to buy an additional 5 because not all of the colors worked and such. I'm really impressed with the way that one turned out versus my wire sculpture. This one really expresses how much work I put into it and how well crafted it is. I really wish I had a picture of it on here to show you, but I'll upload one as soon as I get it.
Things that describe my piece would be analogous colors, continuity, and unity. The texture is soft to touch but hard for pushing on because it is held together by cardboard and hot glue.

2/19/11- Eric Fischl

Eric Fischl-
His main objective is to capture the dirty little activities and desires of people in the suburbs in his art.

With his art he can make you feel awkward and uncomfortable while you look at it. I concur, because even though his art has a really great point, it makes me feel weird by just looking at it. There is something about looking at naked people that society has instilled in me. His paintings feature the voice, more or less capture  the essence of the dirty voice in everyone's head. He puts on a canvas what we all want to say or what we secretly wish we hadn't done. Its the pure graphic nature of his work that makes it what it is. The piece below was actually a large source of contingency when it came out. Many people wouldn't look at it because it came out right around 9/11 and reminded civilians of people falling from the twin towers. Some of his art is just so raw that it is hard to deny the nature of it. The piece above is like that dirty little secret from 3 summers back that still lingers over head. Not proud of it, but unable to forget.

2/17/11- Andy Goldsworthy

I'm a real fan of making things out of nature. After Laurie showed us Andy Goldsworthy, I was immediately interested in him. His work is literally amazing! He is so patient and his pieces are so amazing. His materials consist of only things you can find in nature, and a lot of them are not permanent. He made these giant stone houses as an installment at the National Gallery of Art that were so immense I cannot fathom the amount of time he put into them. He does things with flowers, icicles, branches, leaves, thorns and anything you can find in nature. His installments can be really anywhere from a random valley in the forest to a small hillside near a quiet community. He never really makes anything to be permanent, but just to add to God's art for a moment in time. He is my new favorite artist. Look at these pieces below! They aren't meant to stay forever, just to be appreciated for the time that they exist.

2/16/11- Kitsch

Kitsch-
By definition-

1. something that appeals to popular or lowbrow taste and is often of poor quality

I can name at least 5 kitschy things in my house right now

1. Fake flowers

2. Figurines of Little Lu Lu and a Zebra I painted

3. My VILE end tables

4. A fly swatter with a flower glued to it

5. Tin signs screwed to the wall

 

Yeah I live in a classy house, but either way I just learned what Kitsch is and it cracks me up how popular it is in American society! Garden gnomes, kitten sweaters and leg lamps are just a few of the great things that we as Americans think it okay to add into our decor. I know, most of these things are found in elderly blind people's homes, but in all reality, we did let this happen. I kind of like tacky things sometimes. I think they're fun and have a bit more character than the stuff that falls within the confines of "okay" by society's standards.

 

2/14/11- Jeff Koonz

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I really wanted to like Jeff Koonz just because alot of people didn't like his art. I mean really, his art is pretty catchy. Who doesn't love a giant puppy made of flowers or a balloon animal that you could ride? I really love the balloon dog, its so fun. I sadly had to go the route of disliking him because after a few youtube videos where he sounded completely pompous, and the fact that he doesn't actually make the art, he just puts forth the idea, he began to push my buttons.

He wants you to be able to look at his pieces and decipher what they're about within 6 seconds of looking at them. I can appreciate that because I know that I don't give people much of a chance when it comes to art. I've learned to take the time now, but for the average person you have about 6 seconds of cognitive thought from them and then they move on. His art is fun and basic which appeals to me. He uses such a variety of objects it is hard to list just one that he favors.

 

Really the only reason that I don't like Jeff Koonz is because of his unconventional method that I find to be kind of insulting to the art world. I don't find it fair. Yeah yeah, go on about his contributions to the art world, but I'll counter your argument with the fact that just because it is your idea that doesn't exactly make it yours.

2/14/11- Two lists

Here are my two lists--- but they're combined into one huge one! 

1. Paper towels
2. Paper clips
3. Corn Husks
4. Doll clothing
5. Wallets
6. Movie covers
7. Tin Foil
8. Silverware
9. Fake Flowers
10. Small books
11. Food wrappers
12. Phone cords
13. Down stuffing
14. Old perfume bottles
15. Old shoes from the thrift store
16. Magazines
17. Shingles
18. Insulation
19. Egg cartons
20. Saran Wrap
21. Candy hearts
22. Candy canes
23. Towels
24. Light bulbs
25. Twine
26. Mechanical Pencils
27. Plastic Ziploc bags
28. Gloves and balloons
29. Condoms
30. Tootbrushes
31. Makeup
32. Stamps
33. Candy wrappers
34. Fingernail polish
35. Latex paint
36. Pills
37. Pill bottles
38. Music paper
39. Microchips
40. Toilet paper
41. Shampoo
42. Soap
43. Vases
44. Bones
45. Candles
46. VHS tapes
47. Tapes
48. Glass bottles
49. Road signs
50. Wallpaper

2/10/11

My wire art turned out quite the flop. I'm pretty upset with the vile manner that I had to present it in. The wind didn't help my case at all, and the cotton candy was a complete sham. Can we say Defeat? I think so. I totally screwed this one up and now I am really frustrated because I put a lot of work into it for it to wind up looking like it was pulled out of the dumpster. There were some great ones in class. I mean REALLY great ones in class. It is kind of obnoxious how awful mine looked compared to theirs. Ugh.

2/8/11

So we are starting this new project where we have to do transformations. No not like taking a car and watching it turn into an autobot- but taking one thing and changing it into something completely different. This could be either non representational or it could look like something. We have been exploring a few different artists that we can look at to gather inspiration, but I'd rather just look around and find things that inspire me rather than use someone elses inspiration. If you do that, then you're kind of just copying their idea and maybe putting your own twist on it---
Kind of like what Vanilla Ice did to David Bowie and Queen.
Ha Ha.

So--- I will be making a trip to the dollar store tonight to explore the vast realms of random that are buried inside of me. We will find out what kind of insane monster exposes itself after I have made this journey

2/7/11

Cotton candy is a very difficult media to use. I went to winco and bought two small tubs of it, which we plenty for the project, but the tubs proved to be of a different texture than I had anticipated. I was hoping for wispy, semi-transperant candy to come out of the tub, like the kind that you find on a stick at the fair, but what I got was a tightly packed and clumpy candy. Cotton candy melts at the touch of just about anything. I'm not even kidding, but it mostly pertains to things that are even the slightest bit moist. To top it off, it doesn't stick when using a glue stick. This made the sculptures skin very unstable and highly unsuccessful. The only thing that it stuck to was itself, and even that was a bit of a stretch for it because the wind kept blowing it off in tiny bits. Long story short- cotton candy and metal do not mix, nor does cotton candy really mix with anything except your mouth.

2/6/11- Contmporary in Art

Last semester I took a poetry class and it ruined all things fun about poetry for me. It had to do with my professor--- I know what you're thinking, he doesn't influence what I like. WRONG! Since about October of 2010, I have despised everything related to poetry. Talk to me about Edgar Allen Poe, we may get along, but don't bring up "contemporary" poetry. Contemporary poetry makes no sense and kind of makes me crazy. I mean, isn't your poetry supposed to convey something that most people can figure out???

Anyway---
The minute Laurie said contemporary in our class, I immediately started thinking about that class again. I was fearing that this class may be the same black hole that my poetry class was, but I got proved wrong. Contemporary art, no matter how strange, can always be perceived by the viewer as "something"rather than nothing. It may look like a mess, but there is always something a little below the surface that you can gather from it that makes the meaning much stronger. I am glad that contemporary has a completely different meaning in Art than it does in Poetry. In poetry, contemporary means gibberish.

2/3/11- 15 Sketches

2/3/11- J. Howard Miller

I've been on a WWII kick this week due to my history class. This is why I chose J. Howard Miller as one of my artists this week. His graphic art during WWII has inspired artists for years, and will for years to come. He created many posters that were pro-war effort such as this one....

                                                     And this one....

But this one is probably the most recognizable across all of America.

Yes! J. Howard Miller was the fabulous creator of Rosie The Riveter! The piece is actually called "We can Do It!" but is commonly misidentified as "Rosie the Riveter" Without his iconic piece, many women may never have joined the war effort and taken up the jobs that their men had left behind. In my personal opinon, Mr. Miller is one of the most influential artists of the 40's. 

Mr. Miller was born in 1918 in Wellington, KS, but grew up in Clovis, NM. He graduated high school in 1936 and attended the University of Southern California, Los Angeles City College, and Eastern New Mexico State College afterward. On December 8, 1941 he volunteered in the Army Air Force where they trained him in Photography. He used that skill for the rest of his life.

He drew inspiration from the War effort in 1941. His main focus was on the women of the war, since they were in fact helping the war effort as much as the boys across the pond.

2/3/11

Bending wire is hard- not just a little hard, but really flipping hard. I've been using the vice in class to help me hold onto my project, and I have to get the vice so tight that I can't unscrew it unless I use my foot and kick it. John my lab teacher laughed at me, and the girl across the table would jump a little every time I'd kick it. Ha Ha. It definitely made for an interesting class! I brought along some of my hangers out of my closet that were made of wire, and straightening them out has proved to be quite the chore. I think I spent more time trying to straighten those things out than I should have the other day. I don't actually think that they will go back to normal without a few kinks in them. Bummer.

Anyway, I'm excited to start putting this project together---
the question now is--- to souter or glue?

2/2/11- Michelangelo

One of the most famous artists in the world, Michelangelo, is my choice for research this week. I'm looking more at his sculptures than at his paintings, although both are BEAUTIFUL! The particular statue I am going to look at today is his sculpture Moses with Rachel and Leah on his sides. Today sculpture is much easier to make than back when Michelangelo was alive. You can make an exact replica of The David by making a mold and pouring anything you want into the mold that you wish your version to be made out of. The sheer magnitude of this piece is enough to blow someones mind, but then you have to step back and realize that this sculpture was made entirely by hand labor. Michelangelo worked with very basic tools to create these masterpieces, and perfected them with those tools. It makes me wonder why more people don't do this today- I know it is not the easiest thing to do, but I appreciate what Michelangelo has done here because of how much effort he has put into making it appear as though these people were frozen in time. The below sculpture is at the tomb of Julius II.