Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 18, 2015
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January 19, 2015
Transcript:
Caulfield: Michelangelo said sculpture was easy. Frazz: I seriously doubt that. Caulfield: Well, he said it was simple: Visualize the figure inside the stone and chip away anything that isn't it. Clearly, Michelangelo never made a snowman. Frazz: I don't think firenze gets a lot of snow. Caulfield: I'm doing something Michelangelo couldn't, is what I'm hearing.
KZ71 over 9 years ago
Explain the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics to me.
Grace730 Premium Member over 9 years ago
Michelangelo did make a snowman. The account is in Giorgio Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists. “It is said that Piero de’ Medici, who had long associated with Michelangelo, often sent for him, wishing to buy antique cameos and other intaglios, and one snowy winter he got him to make a beautiful snow statue in the court of his palace.”Maybe a snow angel?
Lorenzo Browncoat over 9 years ago
Caulfield’s sculpture technique is the opposite of Michaelangelo’.s. Mike started with a block of stone, and removed excess. Caulfield starts with a handful of snow and adds more.
outfishn over 9 years ago
Maizing. Just skip reading the comments if they bother you so much.
pschearer Premium Member over 9 years ago
I’m sorry to agree about the use of “Firenze”. The name Florence is so famous that it’s become part of English, just like every other famous city whose Italian names you would never use and often wouldn’t even recognize.
(When it comes to foreign nations, we often don’t even know their native names. Magyar? Suomi? Nihon? Zhongguo?)
bondo67 over 9 years ago
Exterminate!
Treesong over 9 years ago
Bharat. Also Deutschland, Hellas, and Al-Misr. I found ‘Firenze’ a bit pretentious, but nothing to get het up about. Then again, I’m comfortable with ‘Torino’ for Turin.
pschearer Premium Member over 9 years ago
No, you have it exactly backwards. Surely you must have a chart of IE languages somewhere.