The Making of a Sculpture

[@Mouseymouse678]

Why does the narrator sound like he’s from pokemon

[@Arthur-fh7uv]

Wait what?

[@Mouseymouse678]

Lyndis he sounds like the narrator from pokemon

[@gloriathomas2188]

Lol he does! I think its the tone

[@ene7065]

Holy shit I just realised!

[@noun7635]

That makes me think about a steel or rock gym champion who would be a sculptor artist. That would be very cool

[@mangisda]

First, an artist must concentrate and visualize his concept. You gotta embrace the marble. You gotta sniff the marble. You gotta lick the marble. You gotta wash the marble. You gotta date the marble. You gotta be the marble.

[@breezyhillproductions349]

Replace all those "You"s with "I've" and you've got it.

[@WormInsideTheApple]

And lastly, to shape the sculpture, you must _consume_ the marble.

[@GoblinDave152]

And lastly, to give that marble its life like appearance, you gotta *FUCK* the marble

[@Tom-ds1kc]

False, the marble must become you

[@DJisAwesome]

I feel like I've watched this somewhere

[@sunnyday6679]

Everyone is always so surprised how detailed artists in the past got their work, but it always made sense to me. They didn't have the internet, or globalization, or really anything to distract them. They weren't exposed to a million different cultures and ideas on the daily from the internet. They just had their small, localized way of life and thinking. Mastering their craft was really all they had to do.

[@Maityist]

That's true, I always found it very tough sometimes as an artist in moments where you're in a block and there are multiple distractions readily at your disposal.

[@BKNeifert]

All that can actually hone your craft to even higher heights. The issue today, is there's no market for art. If there were, I'm sure the greatest art in history would be made right now, spanning influences from all genres, mediums and cultures.

[@BKNeifert]

Like, Adam Savage mail ordered notebooks by Leonardo Da Vinci, and if you ever watched Antiques Roadshow, you'll see all the antiques are depreciating. People today don't like art, or even history for that matter. They like information. And they don't like well crafted information, but they like easily digested information, that takes three seconds to understand, and probably just thought up five seconds ago..

[@BKNeifert]

In other words, nobody wants to think. That, and the art that is valuable looks like it could be made by two year olds. It's sad, really. Nobody can, because it's also looked down upon to take your craft seriously. Everyone wants ugly art. They don't want to establish aesthetic norms, except ones that are gross. Jeff Bezos spent an insane amount of money on what is essentially an electric blue painted canvas with yellow font. The font is nice, but that's what he spent a TON OF MONEY on. It's insane how much he spent on that piece. But, that's what sells.

[@Jacob-og9pz]

noh

[@heleneholm7059]

I went to the art Academy of Carrara - not only Statuario marble is used for sculpture - actually there is not much Statuario left - but there is still a lot of Carrara marble, which is a cooler white and has som gray lines in it. Statuario is considered the finest with a warmer color …a bit like cream 🙂💁🏼‍♀️

[@sabahameer2620]

Hello Helena I have a question I hope you help me , if I want to look in the internet for someone to make sculpture my own drawing where I should look and what should I write in the search to reach artist who can do it ?

[@yato329]

​@@sabahameer2620 do you ever figure it out?

[@sussybaka119]

Your profile picture gives me nightmares

[@abhivandan8710]

Imagine what MichaelAngelo used for sculpting... only hammer with chisel....!!!

[@animepabu5526]

AMAGE-VERSE and probably a curved blade of sorts to get dem smooth textures

[@tubagusthariqgilbraltar7499]

No, he use telekinesis

[@iqfarutrusted]

He learn from spongebob

[@mikekazz5353]

No no no you got it all wrong they say that every statue is in all slabs of marble you just got to bring it out. so he knocked on the marble and waited to hear "get me the hell out of here!!!" and went at it like triple H with a sledge hammer after he spits a mist of wine into the air.

[@sche5018]

And abrasive paper of course, i wonder what kind of abrasive paper was before modern world

[@CinthyaBretas]

Watching this work executed with all ease with modern tools can you imagine Michelangelo using only carved, hammers and rases? What an amazing man!

[@korvusmangata9007]

Not just that, but the marble he was given was of the lowest grade because the people who gave it to him thought he couldn't pull it off

[@korvusmangata9007]

@Masnsen i can't remember what sculpture, but the quality of the marble was so bad, onlookers broke either the penis or the head off of it with rocks. The artist wasn't as loved and supported as he is now. If you visit the museum currently holding the masterpiece, you can still see the damage done to it today. If you ask me, it was the vandalists who worked with demons.

[@cyberstalker1713]

Same Thing Popped Up On My Mind :v

[@korvusmangata9007]

@@cccvvv630 it very well be the case that I'm wrong, since i don't remember all the details I got this information from a youtube video about a behind-the-scenes restoration of (what i thought was) one of his statues. I'll see if i can find it, we can both watch it, and see what mistakes i made, hm? Here, i have found it kzbin.info/www/bejne/faTVfJt9fp6opdk In the time i have posted this, i haven't rewatched it yet, but I'm about to

[@korvusmangata9007]

@@cccvvv630 you're right i did mess quite a bit up. I mixed up the riots that broke Michael's arm off (not his head) with everyone disliking him. And he wasn't given low grade marble, he CHOSE it because no one else was taking the block.

[@MrGoatflakes]

1:32 Most marble sculptures are just not made this way. The sculptor in this video uses a well known but fairly uncommon method for working in marble. Though it is fairly common for carved wooden statues. It's more common with stone to sketch potential ideas for sculptures in flat drawings. Then a clay or wax maquette (bozetto in Italian) or rough scale model in is made as an experiment in the subject, proportions, posing and overall composition. As well as giving hints as to practicality, eg. to visualise what support might be needed. Once the sculptor is happy with one of the many maquettes they might make, most of which might never to see expression in any larger sculpture, they go about transferring the idea to marble. They may for reasonably sized statues actually make a full sized clay more or less final version. That is often cast in hollow plaster for ease of use, or sometimes the clay is hollowed out and dried and maybe fired in a kiln. Then that is copied somewhat mechanically. By measuring the plaster master with calipers or a pointing machine. Skill is still required as this only gives the basic forms, and surface details need to be put in by hand, but that's far easier when you've got the shape right. And it is far less hit and miss than just chipping away semi randomly at a block of stone, which isn't very forgiving and very expensive if you mess up. It's also far less mysterious a process.

[@sissyrayself7508]

Also far less artistic and less valuable..in my opinion.

[@MrGoatflakes]

@@sissyrayself7508 why? Even the great masters like Michelangelo used these sorts of techniques.

[@skirmishj258]

@@sissyrayself7508 They still had to sculpt it first. To me that technique is just common sense. Why just start carving without planning it out first, especially considering the finer grades of marble are increasingly rare and expensive?

[@user-if2oj1jt6n]

Спасибо. Очень интересная информация.😊

[@user-on7zs8pm5g]

Measure twice chisel once@@sissyrayself7508

[@MarkArandjus]

"Angle grinders with diamond blades." The old masters: adorable.

[@AverageTrainEnthusiast]

Honestly it’d probably be more like… The old masters: “I could’ve made so many more sculptures if I had one of those…”

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

@@AverageTrainEnthusiast still, The fact that people working with chisels could create such life-like statues before calculators and before modern measuring instruments, to have their measuring instruments be physical (not calculators or lasers) and precise is absolutely mind-boggling, like using a slide rule instead of a calculator to make a rocket with 100,000 times less computing power for guidance than a smart phone land on the moon This might sound like exaggeration, but we still can’t mass produce Roman concrete, we still can’t rebuild The Vatican, we can’t rebuild the Reichstag, we still can’t rebuild the Palais Garnier that was built with the modern equivalent of €313 million, which is less than it cost to build a modern Opera Bastille which was 147% of the cost.

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

​@UCaQbNwQqi5HfNDPiLnMMR5A Part of it is regulation and taxes: large hallways, high ceilings, and enough room to put columns takes up area that could've otherwise housed businesses, apartments, and has to receive enough income, per taxed story, to justify the orientation of the building. Older buildings were preserved and partially immune to taxes due to landmark classification and various exemptions and benefits given to keep them in blue cities that favor high taxes. The other part is Masonry has upkeep cost that buildings with no extrusions or detachable sections has. Remember in 1890-1910 people could justify these costs still to themselves so it isn't infeasible and is still workable. Keep in mind the cost is still that: Only the high earners tend to be able to afford to frequent these beaux arts areas and especially live in them since regulations and taxes were imposed. Another is oddly enough, political will on the federal level. Trump wished to implement a restriction in which classical buildings for federal buildings would be built, but was stopped. Some say it's skilled labor relative to material costs, but doubt is wise as this mansion only cost 12 million to build kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGbEd6KGoqt8ipY I have a feeling that some of the answers might lie between 1890 and 1910, because pictures of the 1920s start to feature the prominent purpose built facades.

[@zekramnordran9526]

better than those who use Quantum Grinders and Adamantium Blades

[@MedukersU]

Sculptors back then also had several assistants, up to 2 dozen, helping them at a time.

[@letdafarhanmuhammadstrhan8415]

Michel angelo should learn from the maestro of arts, sir squidward tenvoles

[@tobskimamen9195]

Indeed

[@hiroparadise8152]

Squidward tortellini

[@remahanrengginang1040]

Squidward pentopel

[@amylippert7631]

ITS TENNISBALLS! NO TENTACLES!

[@M.C.P.]

MICHELANGELO

[@dagelanjawamantab6207]

Literally : SpongeBob can make it in one touch

[@humphibip]

I thought so 😂

[@rabidbwah3430]

Iyo yo mas

[@marcellputraw41]

One punch

[@ange100arteaga]

Stop

[@DBT1007]

Klo ga bisa pake format meme, yaa ga usah soksokan..

[@shoshishoshi127]

Looking at all the equipments and machineries, I start to appreciate the effort and time spent by the past artists to make these sculptures with simple tools. They really devoted their lives to their passion.

[@Bennacho]

1:11 Jesus that is so fucking dangerous, if he leaned forward ANY he wouldn’t have a stomach anymore.

[@tdf_worldkey8568]

Ikr I was just wondering what would happen if he tripper or sumn

[@thedarkfloyd7517]

🤭

[@rosesaredainty5638]

Imagine the force he’s using.

[@rockets4kids]

Not to mention the lack of eye or lung protection.

[@craftylemon2460]

If i remember correctly. Stone cutting blades is not sharp as a wood cutting blade. Instead of cutting, it grinds it down. While a wood cutting blade would open his stomach up in a split second, a stone cutting blade would not. It would leave a mark tho.

[@ChiliSainz]

imagine how superior classical artists are since they weren’t using power tools back then, yet some of their works have the most detailed, life-like features.

[@bernalesjames9110]

yeah but they worked for years before finishing it

[@wesleysilveira5692]

@@bernalesjames9110 ok, this is something we can talk about them so: their patience

[@marvinsilverman4394]

@Keith Perez no sense commentary

[@xevenxaver4759]

@Keith Perez Someone uses power tools 😞

[@The-Devils-Advocate]

@Keith Perez do you need help?

[@cameronvandygriff7048]

Still didnt explain what I wanna see I wanna see how Michelangelo was able to make his sculptures so smooth and lifelike was it just really really fine picks or some custom tool

[@nickfanzo]

He had skill not special things.

[@stel1000]

It's files. You can do the same with sandpaper.

[@stel1000]

And praxiteles is better than Michelangelo. Also check the boxer at rest sculpture by other artists.

[@The-illuminated]

God spoke throug Michelangelo. You cant compare them

[@cristianpereyra6912]

@@The-illuminated michelangelo kinda hated the church bro

[@c_dubbzz6127]

The way they make fabric draped of the body look so natural is amazing

[@user-my2lh3mt5d]

Yes, it really caught my eye as well......its amazing! Even trying to draw realistic drapery or fabric draping a human form is difficult. I love the way it looks

[@javier77street]

Any art, whether it be artist, sculptor, musician, singer, any form of art......is a gift from god. Real art makes people happy.

[@sissyrayself7508]

This I can agree with. Thank YOU!!!!

[@syn16]

Congratulations.... The KZbin algorithm has chosen you to watch this video.

[@danthiel8623]

Nostalgic or You have an Art History class and this is one of the videos

[@dracorei5143]

That algorithm got me.

[@iwantsleep8079]

I *was* taking a sculpting class in school, but this randomly popped up

[@syn16]

Daniel Duntavs Saunders that too haha:)

[@messynate]

Fresh

[@PTS156]

As a person who watched spongebob as a youth, I always thought it just took a single well placed strike with a hammer and chisel to reveal the art from the marble.

[@NightBazaar]

Squidward could give the chisel a slight tap and the entire thing turns into a pile of chips and dust.

[@philosophyfrog2653]

Well that's how the pro's does it, this guy is a noob.

[@137Official]

What the classical sculptors did is nothing short of magic, but we still have to give love to the modern artists. Although the tools have advanced, as with any craft, and thus the process has been expedited, the vision is what matters in the end. When all is said and done, the beauty of one’s creation transcends one’s tools or lack thereof.

[@AdaArts]

You are very inspiring artist,I like how you find the solution’s for every difficulty on your work process..awesome artwork 😍😍👏👏👏👏

[@In_Can]

The best marble sculpture i have ever seen is the mountains.

[@minesonic8101]

Gay

[@totallynotsatan976]

Minesonic says the person with an mlp pfp

[@myni5133]

That has got to hurt

[@yellowvegtables454]

@@sirsupesafro7637 no

[@BG-ig6op]

Yes, friend. Indeed Mother Nature is the greatest artist!

[@conniecendon4740]

1:11 Man he could have sliced his gut.

[@localdude2979]

1:10 good thing he is in full control of the whole process from start to finish

[@iraomar1]

The blade is basically smooth with diamond particles imbedded. If it were a wood cutting blade, that would be very dangerous.

[@CGIadviser]

@@iraomar1 what??? Sorry but thats the stupidest thing I heard all day. Blade that cuts through hard materials can cut human flesh no problem

[@iraomar1]

DevRoot have you ever used an angle grinder with one of these types of blades? I have.

[@CGIadviser]

@@iraomar1 And you tried to cut yourself yes?

[@Deano4322]

I doubt Michelangelo had access to an angle grinder when he created David but this man’s creations are magnificent , just to have the imagination to see this finished sculpture on a large rectangular block of marble is amazing .

[@LyubomirIko]

You are wrong. In the past there were "angle grinder" - It's called apprentice. The master will give to the apprentice to cut off the big shapes, also called to "block-in the form". This stage doesn't require much masterful skill, so skipping it was a practice for the master - since forever. But can help the apprentice to develop some synhronisation of the motion apparatus and to learn how the stone behave.

[@bassambouhamad7935]

My goodness what a beautiful works, Thank God for what you gave us materials on this earth and still many people not happy about it, Thank you for your amazing works in this solid marble, Your statues they just need is to speak, God bless you.

[@susantunbridge4612]

Preacher!

[@LilChuunosuke]

I just love how they used the Statue of David to brag about the quality of the marble as if that statue wasn't built using extremely low grade marble. I'm not doubting that the marble there is good. But they chose a horrible example and clearly didn't do their research lmao. I mean, I don't claim to be an expert, but that's one of the first things you learn about the statue of David once you research beyond surface level information.

[@Qowowoeeoeo]

Lmao ikr And Michelangelo only chose it cause no one else would

[@creepy_artist]

@@Qowowoeeoeo I think I've heard someone dared him

[@BbGun-lw5vi]

Creepy Artist It wasn’t a dare. The block had been started by two other sculptors and they abandoned it because the quality sucked.

[@hansy8032]

Im more concern about the marble mountain being gone few years from now...

[@shreyasshankar4109]

Poor laborers have cut down so much wood, so much granite, mined so much metal for your tables, beds, shelves what not for your excesses. And you have a problem with a few amazing artists creative beautiful things that represent their times? Very valid.

[@AliKhan-kj2pp]

@phillyrick I work in a mine in northern Pakistan and I've seen one of world most unique marble mountains gone within years. Wood can grow, not marble. these mountains have been kept under special quarrying conditions that's why still there but with time, they will be gone!

[@lavpradhan7104]

@@AliKhan-kj2pp true man these beautiful mountains at one time will be just beautiful memories

[@efraing3535]

See thats why i sculpt using my own poop.

[@CarlosGarcia-ze6rt]

@phillyrick what year did the human started to extract petroleum? And yet it's not much left years later. The end

[@victorpham4467]

I don't have this talent .. at all, but know how to admire the skill. Great, Amazing, I can feel, see the artist "put their soul to their work ". *Thank you Varo Sculpture*

[@charlesforiest8414]

I'm a 67 year old wood sculptor and would love working a piece in stone with this guy. Great Job

[@lunaryis5300]

So, I'm Italian and it took me some time to realize he was actually saying Carrara XD English accent is so strange lol

[@fan2jnrc]

This is the marble of Cauoauoa...

[@siletsahar]

I'm brazilian and felt the same xD

[@Handhandme]

de marbbol of cauoua

[@Gr95dc]

I cringed so hard at how he pronounced it and my first language is Spanish.

[@andreasilvestri2236]

CAWWAWA

[@McDamnit]

Today’s episode of where did quarantine take me...

[@ishibi]

Go Dawgs. Long live the weasel logo.

[@blondemommyvomit]

And you still haven't stumbled upon *Event 201*

[@R.MaxumOff]

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[@snowstarsparkle]

more like quarry-tine lol

[@weejim48]

I have never been envious of anyone with wealth or fame. I am a bench joiner . I appreciate people that have these kinds of skill. And these are the people I am envious of. I would love to have their level of artistic skill. My work is more practical. Bravo to that gentleman on creating such a piece of art. 👍👍

[@torrena]

Hola, sería muy bueno que este contenido se tradujera al Español, o añadieran subtítulos en Español. Es un contenido escaso y muy interesante, que merece atravesar barreras del idioma en beneficio de la educación. Gracias por entregar este contenido ❤️

[@iib.mp3]

Lo siento si la traducción no es muy precisa, todavía estoy aprendiendo a hablar español, ¡así que principalmente uso un traductor! A pesar de que su comentario se hizo hace un tiempo, pensé que sería útil para otras personas que también quisieran una traducción.

[@theycallmespongebob4363]

@@iib.mp3 dude. you dropped this 👑

[@boatsandoutboards9070]

in 2022 youtube auto translates any subtitle... not to all languages but major ones. when torrena wrote his comment, it didn't

[@PrincipeCaspianX]

Pero sería más bueno que tu aprendas inglés en vez de esperar como un holganzan a que todo te lo traduzcan.

[@boatsandoutboards9070]

@@PrincipeCaspianX Keşke dünya üzerindeki herkes ingilizce öğrense ve amerikalılar yabancı dil öğrenmek zorunda kalmasa. Ne güzel olurdu, değil mi?

[@kayingham3528]

“The result is always original, one of a kind work”... Displays 4 different “woman clad only in a drape of cloth” statues Lol ok 😂

[@mattsmocs3281]

Marble’s only other reason to exist outside fancy kitchen tops and Art History books. :)

[@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0]

I would sculpt beefy werewolf and sell it for half a million to the furry community.

[@giantalbinoeel]

@@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0 That's That's FANTASTIC

[@annisarahimahbasri666]

@@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0 actually that's more original than "a woman who wears a drape of cloth" Edit : pls do it irl

[@danielespana9454]

Yeah those sculpture's are crap in its discourse as art. BUT the originality that the narrator refferes its about the material creation of a marble sculpture, opposed to (for example) cast sculpture, wich had a mold. (Sorry is my english is bad)

[@vincentaguilar7011]

Imagine doing this in the medieval time carving using chisel and hammer and without using power tools it's really really hard

[@BillRemski]

Artists, especially sculptors, seldom work alone or do all the work themselves. They set up a shop and hire workers to do the rough work and polishing usually after creating a life sized model in clay.

[@mittikebartannirmata5814]

बड़े कमाल की बात हैं ना आंखें तालाब नही है लेकिन फिर भी भर आती हैं, और इंसान मौसम नही है फिर भी बदल जाता हैं..!! 🌼🦋┄┅══❁♥❁════┅🦋🌼 किसी की तारिफ करने के लिए जिगर चाहिए, बुराई तो बिना हुनर के किसी की भी की जा सकती हैं..!!..

[@landrybowen8872]

It takes extreme talent to do it with power tools. So imagine how talented they were back then, they had no power tools, just a hammer, and other simple tools

[@PastelPinkChaos]

This video makes me wanna make an sculpture when I can't even draw

[@theplumscrub1627]

Call_Me_ Karay I mean, sculpting is very different from drawing, since drawing is the illusion of depth (and much more) and sculpting is how to handle that depth in reality.

[@PastelPinkChaos]

@@theplumscrub1627 Sounds difficult :"/ I'm not seeing myself talented enough to do a decent sculpture ^^

[@theplumscrub1627]

Call_Me_ Karay You don’t need to do a decent sculpture though, you just need to do a sculpture! There’s no fun in trying to be good at everything you do at first try, that’ll just burn you out! Go for it, if you want to make a sculpture then do it! And let that sculpture be part of the learning process :D

[@PastelPinkChaos]

@@theplumscrub1627 Wow, Thank you so much :0, I feel more confident now, I think I might try to do something, I have a bit of clay, Thank you again! You're so kind! ^w^

[@theplumscrub1627]

Call_Me_ Karay You too pal! You’re awesome for being so brave to try it out! It’s really demotivating when we fail, but if we see it as learning then it’s suddenly easier! Thank you for being awesome too, and have fun :D

[@jellyw3049]

The fact that he isn't wearing a respirator or a mask is unsettling

[@joeylawn36111]

jellyw yeah, he’ll have marble lungs....

[@davidjacobs8558]

@@joeylawn36111 Marble is mostly Calcium Carbonate. antiacid Tums is basically Calcium Carbonate. you can eat it. breathing it may not be a great idea.

[@joeylawn36111]

@@davidjacobs8558 Yeah, there are several materials that you can safely digest, but fine dust you wouldn't want to breathe, like silicon dioxide.

[@sissyrayself7508]

Oh please..quit being such a snowflake.

[@sissyrayself7508]

Using our radio wave electronic devices for years is probably going to cause all of us more cancer ..in the long run..than the marble scultpters will ever get from breathing marble dust.

[@thesprinkleddonutforge2774]

Nice video thank you. I can make almost anything I desire, and of all of it, I love stone the most. A creation stands a chance of being enjoyed for hundreds or even thousands of years. What was said here is true. The mind meets the stone, the two speak about it in silence. The conception of the piece is realised, and the sculptor brings it out of the stone into life. Beautiful

[@dennismarfo3536]

Respect to the early artist like Michelangelo and others who had to sculpt without these modern and complex tools but still were able to produce most of the great works in this field.

[@kishor565]

Italians are lucky they have preserved their ancient art where as in India the fine art of sculpting is long gone and no one creates such magnificent sculptures like our ancestors did. There are still sculptures but the art is not flourished as it did in the ancient times.

[@coalsauce4457]

Damn bro thats sad

[@patelnirav017]

I think u have to make little search on BAPS ORGANISATION WHO BUILT Delhi axardham

[@kishor565]

@@patelnirav017 thanks for the info. I will look into it

[@patelnirav017]

@@kishor565 Baps have built 80 plus large scale temple And currently building another axardham in America Also baps have there own staff of technician of 4000 person in Rajasthan pindwara U can also visit ..you tube video kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGnSmpeQl8yEpa8 Time frame 13:00 to 20:00

[@pratibhapanda3730]

Marble Mountains r very precious, sculptures can made using any other material, really feel sad, sculptures can never give that much happiness as compared viewing the mountains

[@ratitabaco]

Wtf, marble mountains are like any other mountains, and they are not getting the marble from a world famus one. This is as stupid as crying for the mountains "killed" to get the concrete from what your house is made dude.

[@ratitabaco]

@@tiredeyes453 Then go away to the forest and try to live 100% ecological way. Cause if you live in the city, even your house is made out of "mountains" and you will see a lot of museums that represent the human history just for display, and dont ignore that even your not necessary purchase of brand clothes are based in natural resources, thats why I recommend this kind of people to go to the forest and live inside a hole. My point is that, a lot, if not all the people who live in the city has a display based life, thats a lot more contamination and "beauty taking", and you are focusing on saying "#savetthemarblemountains"?

[@ratitabaco]

@@tiredeyes453 Hello

[@DriveByGuy]

Ratitabaco you realize concrete is made from rocks, gravel, or sand mixed with cement, which is made from limestone. Rocks, sand, gravel, and limestone can literally be found pretty much anywhere. Rare marble mountains that have historical importance, not so much. Also, concrete is the second most used resource behind water, so it makes sense that we harvest the materials to make it. Marble is present in what? Maybe .0001% of homes and buildings worldwide? A third point I’d like to make is that the majority of a home is constructed out of wood, and the majority of buildings are constructed out of wood and steel. Concrete isn’t even necessary for most buildings; it’s just cheap as fuck. OP’s point is that Italy has such breathtaking landscapes, so why would we want to destroy them when there are other larger sources of marble that are just as good buried elsewhere.

[@_happyland_7195]

@@DriveByGuy thankyou, sometimes it’s refreshing to find common sense on YT

[@Sieg_W]

The amount of effort spent on theses sculptures is unbelievable

[@deepalib3096]

Such a great work of art!

[@filipthedev4159]

I have so much respect for this people, they really hustle for that to look like we want. Incredible.

[@emanuelemanuel7038]

Just recently learned that these statues were more often painted over with bright vivid colors. I honestly like them as they are in exposed marble

[@Crosshill]

just iunno hang up some expensively dyed banners bruh and flex that marble instead

[@maarten176]

Not in the renaissance. More in Ancient Greece and rome

[@jennyhoneypark]

I watched this 3 years ago. I'm glad this got recommended to me again.

[@Arielelian]

There's a facet to this that's both beautiful and sad. We're destroying whole landscapes for chunks of marble to craft, throw away, and/or possibly immortalize in places that few see. We're exchanging natural beauty for man-made "beauty".

[@skyfallz_5578]

To make a sculpture, you technically have to be a really good artist. Best artist be damned, these people draw just as good!

[@Shawnmyrelle]

Even with all our tools, we don’t come close to the pure perfection of the first century sculptors.

[@FractalParadox]

"This natural and spiritual journey keeps the artist inspired and happy" _proceeds to show only sculptures of sexy ladies._

[@swpo4878]

They use grinder now but still a lot work in my POV. I cant just imagined artist like michael angelo chiseling manualy that stone what a dedication they have in their work

[@Egipriatno]

he has the skill of cutting and sculpting, that's amazing

[@christophern762]

I can't even draw what he drew at the beginning ,this guy is really a master at his work

[@revelationakagoldeneagle8045]

To sculpt, you simply chisel away what doesn't look like what you are sculpting! Carry On...

[@kenjutsuallintv4301]

What a beautiful finish!!!

[@littlemilho1313]

Mesmo com toda tecnologia para fabricação dessas estátuas modernas, ainda acho impressionante como as antigas estátuas gregas foram feitas

[@shotaroikaros7096]

0:57 *holds nose* “Plastacy”

[@artgeometrix6346]

This is so impressive. Really appreciate the level of skill here.

[@DaveZee823]

You can't be serious!

[@MrBandaman]

What makes you admire and appreciate people like Michelangelo is the fact that they had no hand grinder or any electric tools back then.

[@DMMacaw]

if you can make a pillow that looks soft and yet have detail,but is full marble. well then you are a god at art

[@JeanGorin80]

Very nice and interesting video , thank' s !

[@davetv4705]

Awesome! I am glad to discover this content as an artist.

[@anotherbigfootwithinternet2147]

I swear to god if talent had an embodiment, it would be these lads.

[@eldiegoasecas]

idk using such fine marble to make an imitation of what the renaissance artists used to make... feels like using caviar to make a sushi burger

[@piero9738]

Please americans, pronounce Michelangelo as “meekelangelo”!! 😂

[@CananaMan]

Meighshellarnchelloo

[@spikestreak]

I was screaming that everytime they said it!

[@Jarbins]

Also known as Meek Mill.

[@Crosshill]

You know Paris, France? In English, they pronounce it “Paris,” but everyone else pronounces it without the “s” sound, like the French do. But with Venezia, everyone it the English way, “Venice.” Like The Merchant of Venice and Death in Venice . . . Why though?! Why isn’t the title Death in Venezia?! Are you friggin’ mocking me?! It takes place in Italy so use the Italian word, damn it! That shit pisses me off! Bunch of dumbasses!

[@Crosshill]

@@tea1696 its just a pasta lol

[@stanimirgeorgiev.87]

Unbelievable! A true masterpiece!

[@bond1_mjblosser]

There's no UNDO button when sculpting with marble. How nerve-wracking that must be. RESPECT.

[@thearizonaranger4079]

1:34 I don't know why but this made me laugh

[@Talldevotte]

When I saw this video I Immediately knew there was gonna be spongebob references in the comments

[@arlinddedushaj8552]

When you don’t have the option to take the fast route, you learn patience. Patience makes a masterpiece

[@harkerroland9750]

Sir you are trully great artist... this is real art!

[@billmarshall8438]

Using power tools on marble without wearing a respirator is like working in an asbestos mine.

[@jukee67]

Think about watching someone sweep up a workshop dealing with any fine particles without anything over their mouth and nose...when they retire, some truly retire shortly after putting 30 years in. To each his own. I am guilty of it sometimes. We all gotta die someday. I don't fear death...I fear those that walk around afraid of everything... especially in 2023...and propaganda...no mask to protect you from that other than getting rid of your television which I happily did about a decade ago. Best of luck to you and everyone out there living in the new normal.

[@siiv7973]

Красота от мрамор, браво!

[@marklll4426]

Makes me think if someone already made a marble statue of handsome squidward

[@HanginInSF]

Looks pretty straightforward, I'm ready to start

[@kayunforgetable9023]

This gave me a start to finish representation of how the process is done.

[@ceciliarojas8823]

HERMOSO EL MARMOL..MUY ESPECIAL!!..QUE GRAN ARTE Y ESCULTURA QUE PERDURARÁ EN LA ETERNIDAD....SUPER ARTISTA..MAGESTUSO..CREAR!!

[@nathanielrobles3284]

Imagine michaelangelo and other great sculptors during that time. Carving marbles with no power tools but stunning work of arts.

[@jaccdied6192]

As an Italian, the way he say Carrara makes me die of laughter. "CRRRRarrra" I'm literally dead

[@Becca-hp4bg]

This made my low quality sketches easy

[@SpencerjonesBoxing]

Blows my mind getting the 3d shape

[@acethefiredragon8525]

And once all the work, time, love and care has been completed into one masterpiece, it would be fully appreciated by the birds who will grace it with their shit.

[@nghtbot340]

And I thought clay sculpting is amazing. You guys are instane, in a good way.

[@kandarkalendar]

Haha "co-raw-rah"

[@LostSpringBand]

If Michelangelo had access to power tools, he would have used them. That's not what makes him the better artist. The poetry of his work is what sets him so immeasurable far above the "Chick in Skimpy Sheet" brigade.

[@thomasstuart6861]

The texture is rougher in hand tools but the precision of the image is more precise than a buzz wheel. The universe is a machine, but the hand of man is unknown.

[@kalebgonzales4009]

The lack of Spongebob reference comments is disturbing....

[@maryjohnson5377]

Because we're grown. I like SpongeBob too, but this is serious work.

[@kalebgonzales4009]

Mary Johnson I know, just some silly nostalgia when ever I hear marble haha. :)

[@andeleon6838]

SpongeBob: First, an artist must concentrate and visualize his concept. Squidward: Now you've got it. SpongeBob: I've gotta embrace the marble! Squidward: Right. SpongeBob: I've gotta sniff the marble! Squidward: Well, uh, ok. SpongeBob: I've gotta lick the marble! Squidward: Uhh... SpongeBob: [washes the marble in a washing machine] I've gotta wash the marble! I've gotta date the marble! [expands himself so that he's the same size as the marble] I've gotta be the marble! I've got it! I have see the sculpture within. There ya go, bud.

[@Cpt.Sailor]

I'm gonna get a marble statue of Rouge the Bat when I have the money

[@MrKrunkles]

based

[@arminiusdude6843]

Truly amazing!

[@pactube8833]

1:50 He draws on marble like we do in 3D or we do like him or what ever

[@MrQhuin]

This is MARBLElous

[@tarunsharma1749]

Now think how ancient Indians had done it on "KAILASH TEMPLE" whose execution is done from top to bottom on a single marble more than 32 storey high

[@christopherpardell4418]

How you ACTUALLY make a large scale marble sculpture. You start with a gestural maquette. Michangelo was known to make very small ones in wax. Then from that you make a larger maquette at a scale you can easily work on, say 20-30” tall. The old masters usually used stoneware clay ( stoneware clay does not shrink so much as it dries and so less likely to crack ) or terra cotta. This can be finished to very high detail. Once you are happy with that Michelangelo would make a sacrificial mold in plaster, soap the inside and cast it full of plaster, then chip away the mold to reveal a more durable plaster cast of the maquette. Then he would build a box around it and fill it with water that had mortar dye in it. Let it sit for five minutes or so, and then drain off a measured amount of the water. Say 1”. Let it sit and Then drain off another inch. This would leave a stain in the plaster that got darker as he lowered the water level, basically staining the maquette in bands of color that were exactly level with the ground and exactly parallel to mark exact height all around the maquette. Then he would build a Pointing Frame around the maquette that had gradations listed in X, Y, and Z dimensions. A surface gauge was then used to record 3 numbers for each point in space from the reference rail on the surface gauge to the surface of the maquette. Inches above the bottom, from the left of the frame, and distance to the surface of the model from the frame. You did this for all 4 sides of the maquette to end up with a table of figures. Then you made a second table with each of those numbers multiplied by your scale factor to full size. Say Times 3. You then built a LARGER pointing frame, exactly 3 times larger and you had your apprentices do most of the roughing out. Having them cut into the stone but stopping half or quarter inch from the Depth number on each grid point. At this point the master sculptor could assess the rough carving and determine if any minor changes were needed to adjust for the larger scale at which you would be seeing the figure. And then he and his best apprentices would gradually work the surface to the stone down to the correct measure. Final finishing would be done with rifflers, files, sand paper, and even polishing rouge. When Michelangelo TRIED sculpting direct in marble, freehand, He usually abandoned the work partway thru because they were unsatisfactory. This process is called Pointing Up. And you end up recording maybe 1,200 points on the maquette and translating them to the full scale stone. Today, I use a scanner to scan a plastilene maquette, and a 7 axis mill to carve the figure in Urethane foam. Then I cover the foam with a few mm of plastilene and Finish the surface for a mold, when it’s going to bronze or stainless, OR there are places that run 7 axis mills that can carve it directly in marble or granite. If you want to do top quality work, you HAVE to do it this way because for anything large, when you are close enough to use a chisel, you can’t see the effect of what you are doing on the overall work. And when you are far enough back to visually assess what needs doing, your arm is too short to reach the stone. Anyone wanting to understand how large sculptures have been made since the renaissance can read Eduardo Lanteri’s books on sculpting. He’s the guy Rodin studied under.

[@ANDROLOMA]

I've read lots and lots of crap on the internet. You may be the first I've ever read who seems to know what they're talking about.

[@christopherpardell4418]

@@ANDROLOMA Not that I am not full of crap on other topics, but in this particular subject, I do know. I served an old world style apprenticeship with a passel of old Italians as a young man and I have been a professional sculptor for 45 years, embracing emerging technology to stay on the cutting edge ever since.

[@ANDROLOMA]

@@christopherpardell4418 Sir, please consider me jealous. My life has been defined by three lousy opportunities I got to improve it, and I'm grateful forever to those lousy little opportunities. I would have loved to be where you are. I really do adore sculpture. One of those opportunities was an apprenticeship... in plumbing. Which was nice, engineering piping systems. But my heart was where yours went.

[@christopherpardell4418]

@@ANDROLOMA I dropped out of a university sculpture degree program when I realized they did not actually know how to make things. And ended up finding a job as an apprentice moldmaker at an Italian immigrant owned statuary in Chicago when I was 20. At the time, I had a choice between taking a job my executive father had found for me that paid $40k a year ( in 1979 dollars ) in management, or taking the apprenticeship that paid minimum wage and was a 2 hour commute away. I knew I would kick myself the rest of my life if I didn’t take the apprenticeship. My very young wife was not exactly happy with my choice. Once I knew moldmaking, they let me apprentice to a 73 year old sculptor. The 5 years I spent there taught me everything I needed to know to make a living as a sculptor, and gave me the chance to hone my skills. At NIU a sculpture student might make 1 or 2 sculptures in a year. At the statuary, I worked on 40 to 50 per year in every imaginable subject. Thing is, I knew I was lucky from the first day on the job. It was a rare and wonderful education. And that is why I have offered apprenticeships to young sculptors my entire career. I should mention, however, that I had been sculpting every day of my life since the age of 4. In plastilene. So my good fortune was to know at a very young age what I wanted to do with my life.

[@ANDROLOMA]

@@christopherpardell4418 "It is the capricious whims of fate that determine the variables of a human life." -Juvenal

[@OvaleTv]

Menos mal no tiene audio jaja. Por que pobres vecinos. Entre la cierra electrica y el polvillo... te imaginas vivir cerca?

[@apple10234]

Me: why did you sculpt that? Valo: I wanted to release the angel inside it.

[@chronobot2001]

Wow !!! So lifelike

[@HowlingMoonCinemas]

That's absolutely incredible.

[@mizannudinhardiyansyah4117]

To make that statue, they have to cut the mountain to get the marble. If this thing happen in Asia, the Europian Union will call it as Nature Exploitation and they will ban the end product, luckily it happened in italy, so it would be fine.

[@joeyherne]

“The sculpture begins in the quarry-“ Pause. Playback Speed 2x. Play.