I have an opinion that i can use to address your question.
Why aren t there marble sculptors anymore.
As it turns out a lot has changed over the last few thousand years including how we think about penis size.
It s partly an honest mistake.
We don t see that much new in painting and sculpture because those aren t popular media anymore not because there s less art or less interest in art.
The professional finish needs to be restored.
Even before painting cave walls early humans fashioned shapes from stone.
When the parthenon in athens fell into ruins in the 1800s about half the marble sculptures there were removed and sent to the british museum greece wants the marble sculptures returned but so far.
Surely nude sculpture is as subject to exaggeration on this topic as locker room talk.
Though using a granite sealer can help you maintain the original finish to your stone it won t necessarily restore the shine to the.
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block before i start my work.
Marble sculpture is the art of creating three dimensional forms from marble.
From these beginnings artifacts have evolved to their current complexity.
Hilary matfess a yale phd student called it a marble ceiling.
Sculpture is among the oldest of the arts.
Machine made glass marbles took off in ohio around 1901 and quickly dominated the world market by the 1920s before the whole industry started trailing off in the late 1930s.
I ve worked in marble before it is really nice to work with.
To her the dearth of statues of women sends the message that our accomplishments aren t worth recognising.
Once you get through the hard polished thin surface it is kind of sandy.
It is already there i just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
There s more art being produced today than ever in human history and a surprising amount of it is commercially successful.
Really fine sand that you can scr.
The glass ones most everyone s idea of a marble today were originally hand made.