Catchy topic title, eh?
Of course, I'm referring to Michelangelo's David (of "David and Goliath" fame). The statue was unveiled half a millenium ago this week. The Italians are celebrating its birthday with pomp and circumstance. To think that anyone gazing upon it today is also gazing upon something that came into being shortly after Columbus first spotted these wild shores of ours! Now that puts things in perspective!
The masterpiece has, throughout the ages, been hailed as one of the most beautiful depictions of the male form. Being slightly more enamored of the female form myself, I'd still agree. In its proportions, its flawless symmetry, its nobility, and in its incredibly well-rounded and soft beauty, Michelangelo's David is the very epitome of a work of art--a testament not only to one man's creative genius but to our very human need to see what the world looks like with us in it.
May David live another thousand years.
Love,
CJ
P.S.
In other art news, Edvard Munch's famous painting, The Scream, was stolen last week. In broad daylight, no less! Now there's something apt to produce anxiety, no?
