Why does it seem so common that modern sculptures of iconic figures look so bad? Soccer star Ronaldo, NBA legend Dwyane Wade, and even the great Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. have been frankly disgraced by sub-par and strange renditions. Is creating a great statue a lost art, or are we being unfair? This week, we talk to a real sculptor to find out.
I don't hate the winter park FL MLK... is he proportional? No. But the cartoony look kind of works I think? The other two though... hoo boy. Cristiano might have been okay if his head wasn't so big in proportion to his face... and poor Dwyane. Those lines around his mouth just look so weird.
I think we can learn from the DC MLK examples: if you're going to make a statue of someone modern, make it really big and put the face high up so people can't examine it too closely!
The Dirk Nowitski statue in Dallas is pretty good. The colors are kind of weird, but good idea to go for iconic shot form than detailed likeness
I don't hate the winter park FL MLK... is he proportional? No. But the cartoony look kind of works I think? The other two though... hoo boy. Cristiano might have been okay if his head wasn't so big in proportion to his face... and poor Dwyane. Those lines around his mouth just look so weird.
I think we can learn from the DC MLK examples: if you're going to make a statue of someone modern, make it really big and put the face high up so people can't examine it too closely!