Obviously this is a sequel to We’re evacuating the planet. What 100 paintings do you insist we bring with us? Like the other thread, this is just an excuse to talk about – and link to pictures of – your favorite sculptures, and so doesn’t really need a setup. But if you’re one of those people who insists on a rationale, I’ll rip off the explanation from the earlier thread:
The sun is going supernova. Fortunately I have prepared for this unlikely eventuality and have assembled a fleet of warp-capable space arks able to transport a few hundred million people to Tellus Secundus, an Earthlike planet about a month’s travel-time away. (Naturally most Dopers get a ticket.) But everyone is insisting on bringing their pets, so space is at a premium. (No one from Wales is allowed on board for that reason.) For sculptures we have alloted a cargo hold 50 meters long, 50 meters wide, and 50 meters high.
What original sculptures do you insist we we bring along, and why?
I will begin by noting that, though y’all are free to link to pictures of anything by Rodin, you can assume everything he ever touched is already in my personal ship, and that The Lovers in particular is in my quarters, as is Fallen Caryatid with Urn. I may let other people look at them. Then again I may not. I’m kind of a shit that way.
While we’re on the subject of Michelangelo, lets grab the *Pieta *from the Vatican, then go back to the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and pick up his unfinished *Prisoners *from there.
I swear those figures would have come alive, if only he would have had time to finish releasing them from the stone.
I agree with you about Rodin, and would have listed Fallen Caryatid immediately. But I’d also include The Kiss and The Belle Heaulmiere and probably Le Penseur for good measure.
Hell, let’s grab both of them. The one he did while still a young man, and the one he did when he was an old geezer. (I think the second one is in Florence.)
I’d like to suggest some Australian art. Mackennal’s Circe is my favourite. If statuary counts, and why wouldn’t it, I also love the Discovery of Gold monument in Bendigo, with the goddess Fortuna dropping a nugget into the beardy booted prospector’s pan. For a modern(er) twist, how about Piccinini? The Young Family is, I think, her best-known work.
