Drawing Michelangelos David

Michelangelo said the artist reveals forms already there in the stone. Like the perfect firm in Platonism. But What’s astonishing is that this came from his own mind — reaching into something infinite and inexhaustible. There’s no full stop. This is more Aristotelean. There is no perfect static form, and looking deeply at this it actually appears to still be moving, still working

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