i can't remember the actual month that we went, but around the end of my senior year we took a trip to the art museums in DC. there were so many things that struck me at the time, like how much the louise bourgeois exhibit impacted me. that was where i got my first taste of dubuffet and fell head over heels. even before i saw the sculptures. there was also this one piece that i found really quite fascinating. but i forgot to get the name of the artist. the other day, i found a picture of a piece that i was 100% sure was his. his name is Ron Mueck. and he makes these sculptures of people. they're huge, but perfectly proportioned, and they're rather magnificent. not just because they look real, but because they are real. he pays so much attention to detail. not only in features and textures... but the actual surface looks like skin. he must have put so many layers on them. there are all of these veins and pores, the skin isn't just a solid color. there are gradations in value. and it's kind of unbelievable that he would be able to master it. it kind of just makes me wonder what happened to him, to make him work on things so meticulously, so passionately.
i guess that's really all i have for tonight.
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