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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37
I can have a single favorite painting because I'm more of a sculpture person. I doubt I could make of a short list of less than a dozen each marble and bronze.
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See, I didn't get sculpture until I was in Rome last year, and then suddenly it hit me. I think Britain is very bad for sculpture, if I've seen it the setting has been awful. I mean, I was reduced to tears by Michaelangelo's Pieta in the Vatican, just unbelievable. But 'classical' sculpture seems to be featured very begrudgingly in Britain, while someone like Rachel Whiteread gets a brilliant treatment. This is either an odd thing or I am wrong, which given my general rubbishness with art, the latter is more likely.
Painting-wise, I can't think of one painting that jumps out as my favourite. I see galleries more as part of an experience than I look for something to call my favourite.