I was very lucky to go to school in New York, and even luckier to be brought up to enjoy art and culture. As a junior undergrad, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art and discoverd Rodin's "The Hand of God."
I fell in love. For the second time in as many months.
I can't explain why this sculpture moved me, and it seems incomplete to have only one view, because this scupture is meant to be seen from all sides. The two lovers are gently held in the palm of a hand. In one swoop it confirmed my beliefs about God, sex, and French sculpture.
Then, this week, from Slate's Political Gabfest, I heard about BBC 4's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" from the British Museum.
And I found this -- the Ain Sakhri figure, found in Khareitoun, modern day Sudan, in 9000 BC.
I fell in love. For the second time in as many months.
I can't explain why this sculpture moved me, and it seems incomplete to have only one view, because this scupture is meant to be seen from all sides. The two lovers are gently held in the palm of a hand. In one swoop it confirmed my beliefs about God, sex, and French sculpture.
Then, this week, from Slate's Political Gabfest, I heard about BBC 4's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" from the British Museum.
And I found this -- the Ain Sakhri figure, found in Khareitoun, modern day Sudan, in 9000 BC.
It was then that I realized, that it wasn't the cultural anthropomological aspects that I was tuned into at the Met. It was the same instincts that have ruled and propegated civilization since the beginning of time :)
But please check out the British Museum's Podcast
And Rodin's statuary -- he did "The Thinker," too.
