Video: Game Over - pop art by Michelangelo
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In 1499, Michelangelo Buonarotti created one of his most famous sculptures, La Pieta (Lamentation of Christ), which, according to art historians, became the watershed between the Early and High Renaissance. And in 2008, Polish artist Kordian Lewandowski creates his Game Over sculpture, which has become one of the most striking contemporary pop art sculptures.
What unites these two seemingly so dissimilar sculptures from such dissimilar sculptors? And the fact that Cordian Lewandowski took as a basis for his sculpture Game Over the plot from the sculpture of Michelangelo. Only, of course, he modernized it, made it in the style of pop art.
And therefore, instead of Jesus Christ, who died on the cross, the plumber Mario is captured here - the hero of the famous computer game and a little less famous film. And instead of the Virgin Mary in Leandowski's sculpture - Princess Peach from the same game. That is why the name of the sculpture is Game Over.
It is not clear from the sculpture how exactly Mario died. But we all played this game and we all know how dangerous it is to travel around its world: evil mushrooms, dangerous turtles, piranha plants, fireballs, octopuses … In the game for a hundred attempts to pass it, there are ninety-nine deaths of the hero.
This sculpture was made from a large piece of expanded polystyrene using a chainsaw initially, and then more precise tools - a hammer, chisel, sandpaper.
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