Week 8 Discussion
Michelangelo, Pietà, 1498–1499
In this class, we’re learning about different types of art media, the processes of creating them, and how they affect viewers differently. During the 15th century, two powerhouses of High Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, were rivals who stood on either side of what is known as the paragone (Italian for "comparison") debate (Links to an external site.), the period discussion concerning whether painting or sculpture should be considered the higher art.
For full points in this week’s discussion forum:
1.) Choose a side in the paragone debate. Which is better: painting or sculpture? Why?
- Required: embed/link to an image into your post to prove your point!
2.) Write a ~100 word initial post by midnight Wednesday, Feb 23.
3.) Chose a classmate’s post and respond with an additional ~100 words
reply
Mamudou Kuyateh
In my opinion painting is better than sculpture. Though both painting and sculpture are imitations of nature, sculpture do not possess many of the things to be found in painting, especially light and shade. For Example, the natural coloring of the flesh, which appears altogether changed in marble, the painter copies faithfully, using more or less light and shadow according to need, which the sculptor cannot. The painter must invent everything and the sculptor practically nothing. His material, stone, is already a finished work of nature. Sculpture requires much greater discipline and skill because of the serious limitations of the medium. Sculpture is like a sonnet, with the rhyme, the meter and the lines fixed. Painters don’t have many limitations. Painters can depict anything: clouds, rainy days, things floating through the air.
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