What Is Modern Sculpture?
Any appropriate interpretation of art dismisses the notion of art for art’s sake. It is this notion that the celebrated African writer Chinua Achebe rubbishes as a piece of deodorized dog-shit in the expression that any form of art embodies the values and meanings of people who product it and for the people for which it is produced. (Curtis, P, 2003). This provides the framework within which any piece of art can be appropriately critique or analyzed. This is not a way of confining art to any structures of interpretation. Reaktion, et al (2000) notes In fact there multiple analyses that do come out from the critique of a single piece of art yet defining of the place and time variables of the art production will among things other have a critical bearing on the what analysis will be made of the artifact and will as much enable the interpreter to get closer to the world of the artist. In this framework this paper is critique of The Broadgate Venus sculpture by Colombian artist Fernando Botero. The paper will entail analyses by other scholars while also drawing nuances from the culture and artiste environments within which the artifact has been produced.
The critique of the Broadgate Venus Sculpture by Colombian artist Fernando Botero
The sculpture of Broadgate Venus is an embodiment of the artiste’s perspectives on the Londoners’ values and perspectives. The visual analysis of the artifact can not be complete without the factoring in of the place and time aspects that characterized the building of the artifact. Goldwater, R. (1969) echoes that artistes are social commentators as well custodians of a people’s culture and in this perspective the visual analysis of the Sculpture must be premised within the various factors that composed the milieu within which the sculpture was built. There are therefore various ways which can be employed to critically explore the understanding of objects of visual material as well as culture as the role of those objects in contemporary culture. The Broadgate Venus was carved by Fernando Botero. The huge nude ensemble is made from Bronze and has a weight of up to 5 tons. The artifact was built from what was not originally a bullfighter.
What we get from sculptures is the detailing on the particular culture and values of a people in focus. The Broadgate Venus which resembles the bulk of Colombian artist Fernando Botero’s artifacts has been viewed as a representation of the excessive of business that characterized the Cosmopolitan British society in time of its Sculpture’s erection. The podgy artifact is carved in a concept of redefining ‘voluptuous’ and this can be interpreted as the representation of the pervasive and avaricious nature of the urban British society driven by capitalism. The sculpture is lying down and the nudity aspects formulate a representation of the allurements that pervade modern lifestyle especially in the cosmopolitans such as in the British society. G. Doy (2001)
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