Today I received an artist's proof of "Adam's Arm," a bronze sculpture by Frederick Hart. I love the detail in the arm, the veins bulging out, the muscles stretched and tense. It's no wonder some people compare it to the right arm of Michelangelo's "David". The space between each finger just leaves more room for Hart to show off the great amount of detail work he puts into his pieces.
Call me old-fashioned, but I like Hart's beliefs that artists should return to the themes and passions of artwork from the past, a style that sometimes appears to be dying out. I don't feel like the art of the past is being phased out, I just feel that so many more forms of art are being integrated into our society but that there will always be room for each of them, even if they are not all equally appreciated.
The piece is what I would consider to be life-size; it's larger than my own, but I'm not a very big guy to begin with so there! Since it was from a casting of the right arm of his "Adam" sculpture, you can really only appreciate the piece from the front of the side, not really from the back at all unless you were truly all that interested in the inscription around the back of the base, so I wouldn't recommend using this as the center piece in a room unless placed on a pedestal that automatically rotates.
One question I've been asked about the piece is "How much does it weigh?" About 18 lbs, that's how much! :D
If you like books, you can find the piece in "Frederick Hart: The Complete Works".
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I'm not some angry, bitter, intolerant, picky, totally pessimistic, never happy guy with high blood pressure and little to no patience who likes to complain all the time. I just started this blog to vent about the little things. The day-to-day things. The probably unimportant stuff you could go the rest of your life without talking about but still you have something to say about it, an opinion that you wouldn't try to impose upon others but that you wouldn't mind sharing either. :)
