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camwynSince a trip to the Met is nothing without a sketchpad...
Here's another one of the masks from the Sichuan exhibit. This one is physically smaller than the original one I drew, but I like its proportions better. I keep rendering the humanlike masks as too narrow despite my best efforts.
And speaking of humanlike...
This one is just plain odd in person. It's in the midst of all these highly stylized heads with ridged cheekbones and stuff that'd make a Nocker go 'bwah?', and it looks... human. Human with many features of the odd style found at Sanxingdui, anyway... Again, it is too narrow. you really need to see this head in person to understand how peculiar it is.
I so need to buy the catalog of this exhibition. These things are just breathtaking to look at. I can just about see the original creators of the things sculpting them from clay, all lines and angles and peculiar proportions... These people were cartooning in bronze, I'm almost sure of it. They were drawing out only the most important bits of what they were trying to depict, and instead of doing it with pen and ink, they were doing it with bronze. It's cartooning, made solid.
Here's another one of the masks from the Sichuan exhibit. This one is physically smaller than the original one I drew, but I like its proportions better. I keep rendering the humanlike masks as too narrow despite my best efforts.
And speaking of humanlike...
This one is just plain odd in person. It's in the midst of all these highly stylized heads with ridged cheekbones and stuff that'd make a Nocker go 'bwah?', and it looks... human. Human with many features of the odd style found at Sanxingdui, anyway... Again, it is too narrow. you really need to see this head in person to understand how peculiar it is.
I so need to buy the catalog of this exhibition. These things are just breathtaking to look at. I can just about see the original creators of the things sculpting them from clay, all lines and angles and peculiar proportions... These people were cartooning in bronze, I'm almost sure of it. They were drawing out only the most important bits of what they were trying to depict, and instead of doing it with pen and ink, they were doing it with bronze. It's cartooning, made solid.
