it's on the brooklyn heights branch of the brooklyn public library on cadman plaza west. i would have paired it with "sciences" but that composition was ruined by the book drop book in the wall right at his feet.
I was most interested in the choices made by the carver as to which intagliations should be deeper. I think I would have made the line of the right calf deeper. The way the palate is tilted is really an elegant touch. From the photo, I can't tell how far from the figure the ordinary viewer is standing. In NYC facade art, some artists get a totally failing grade because they don't match detailing to distance, playing to a one-in-a-million telescope or a dowager in a penthouse looking at a carving just above her head outside her bedroom window.
I'm thinking this is on Rockefeller Center?
ReplyDeleteit's on the brooklyn heights branch of the brooklyn public library on cadman plaza west. i would have paired it with "sciences" but that composition was ruined by the book drop book in the wall right at his feet.
ReplyDeleteI was most interested in the choices made by the carver as to which intagliations should be deeper. I think I would have made the line of the right calf deeper. The way the palate is tilted is really an elegant touch. From the photo, I can't tell how far from the figure the ordinary viewer is standing. In NYC facade art, some artists get a totally failing grade because they don't match detailing to distance, playing to a one-in-a-million telescope or a dowager in a penthouse looking at a carving just above her head outside her bedroom window.
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