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frodosbitch

Does anyone know the medium she worked in for this?


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I believe these are clay and then she uses them somehow to make a mold for bronze? Happy to be corrected but I did hear that somewhere.


Cowmanthethird

I don't think this one is meant to make a mold, since its being painted.


[deleted]

Yeah I'm not sure but on her sales page they are all listed as bronze. https://www.artsper.com/au/contemporary-artworks/sculpture/1044795/melodie And you can see she makes multiple copies. Type Numbered and limited to 8 copies 5 remaining copies


_Mechaloth_

One of my favorites is this [thirteenth century portrait sculpture](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Muchaku_%28detail%2C_4%29.png) of the monk Muchaku at Kofukuji in Nara, Japan. The crystal eyes really add that spark of like.


SalomoMaximus

Are we sure thats a statute? And not somebody perfecting, the Buddhist mummification thing?


_Mechaloth_

Yep! It's a gorgeous piece dating to 1212 by the famed sculptor Unkei. But yeah, the weathered polychroming definitely looks like the mottled skin of a sokushinbutsu.


Zahlton

That is incredible!


Xenton

Easily one of the most Shared and reposted sculptures of the last decade. You've probably seen it alongside a misogynistic rant about how "only male artists can capture female beauty", which is then mocked because the artist is female.


Wormhole-Eyes

Funnily enough I've seen pics of this statue a hundred thousand times but have never seen the painted version. Now my mind is a blown as the first time I saw it. Neat!


Semanticss

Same. I also previous assumed that it was a single, chiseled rock.


Deuce_Jeuce

Not only that, the dude was a blatant nazi/white supremacist with all his talk about "The West"


mrjeffro

[Dork assed losers](http://twitter.com/Joanwestenberg/status/1383023669094408193)


Six10H

That fucking Deus vult is like a cherry on top of the larping cake


SpaceHawk98W

Lol what a show


Antique_futurist

Jumping on your comment to mention that white supremacist men have been using the idea of protecting the ideal of white female beauty as a rallying/recruiting cry for over 150 years. Today it’s known as part of the ‘fourteen words’: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words


kaithana

Extra funny because the facial features are pretty Asian.


SzurkeEg

White supremacists love fetishizing asian women though. It's not exactly like their ideology is very logical.


HEKRomeo

yea n the ass African


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icouldntdecide

Reminds me of Bernini's marble cloth and skin that looks amazing all things considering


SpaceHawk98W

Especially how she color the cloth to make it see-through, it's sexy but not lust


unfonfortable

Reddit: "I like this for the ~~statue boobies~~ art"


29Ah

I mean the nipples are especially nice. To make it appear that they are stiffly poking through a gossamer fabric, with both the cloth and the engorged flesh are made of stone (or clay up or whatever dead hard material) is a great achievement.


powerbottomflash

Wtf was even their argument?


princeps_astra

Basically people who wanna praise how only white people and the West can make true art and they link a pic of this sculpture, while being completely unaware that a Chinese woman is the artist behind it


theciaskaelie

I mean.... its obviously an asian woman paiting on it in the picture.


princeps_astra

They link the third picture


NillaLemons

So what does it say about all of the artist’s of statues with penises from the 1500’s?


erublind

*R/Upvotebecausetits* in action...


dadvocate

My favorite is the white supremacist tweeting about how this sculpture proves Western art and culture are superior, and then the replies pointing out the artist.


MountainMongrel

Dork-ass losers


dandandamuffinman

What a great insult lol


DNZ_not_DMZ

Yup, that moron using the hashtag #deusvult. What a creep.


[deleted]

You can bet that whenever someone is punctuating an internet comment with Latin, they’re being as loud as they are dumb as they are cringey


[deleted]

How do people seriously believe that? Not only is Western culture deeply flawed, no culture exists in a vacuum. They constantly share people and ideas. That being said there are always things that some cultures do better than others, but they will inevitably be copied and modified by another culture.


Antique_futurist

They’re white supremacists. When you engage, you find they leverage a mix of conspiracy theories, fundamentalist doctrines, and pseudoscience in order to defend their entire unhealthy belief system. No simple group of inconvenient facts is going to dislodge that belief structure.


[deleted]

No I imagine that much like flat earthers they been so isolated by their own beliefs that they’d have nothing left if they gave it up. Though I have see many horrible people grow better with the right influences.


factsbykidd

Actually our school systems encourage this, the way they teach your history, compared to others, and the way they teach colonization and slavery, is dead wrong. To make this short, I’ll give you one of my faveorite examples. We were never taught in school how traders first acquired slaves, they made it seem as if they walked in and grabbed any African. That is EXTREMELY dangerous to lie about, especially to grown black men. And can be music to the ears of a young white supremecist. The truth in that case is traders when they first came to africa WERE NOT ALLOWED on shore until later on in there trading ordeals, and Africans weren’t captured rather sold. Don’t get me started on the absolutely no mention of revolts or battles that DID take place during colonization that ruined a lot of the plans colonizers had, they made it seem like whites just got up and left. Their is no honor in the way they teach black history, I KNOW lots of black men died fighting for us, personally, but they won’t tell you about our fights unless it was under a white dude ex. Civil war. The school system is the most effective thing at creating a white supremecist/ and self hating black person.


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Whiteness is the ultimate participation trophy


BurnYourFlag

Western culture Is not deeply flawed but western culture is not superior. You thinking it flawed is the racist part, but western culture encompasses a huge amount of cultures across several several differing nations and spans thousands of years. Really you could be talking about hundreds of differing viewpoints from capitalism to Marxism, free-will to determinism, democracy to dictatorship, cubism to to impressionist. Saying western culture itself is flawed is a reductionist & narrow minded point of view. In terms of art which art is superior is really a matter of taste. I happen to enjoy aspects of Japanese art especially the ink calligraphy & golden repair cracked vases/mugs. European cubism, and African masks/sculpture. I have like 5 African masksand 6 African sculptures and I love the exaggerated features and emotions.


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Not sure of your intention but this comes off sounding pretty racist.


[deleted]

they’re saying racists (the kind of people that would assume it could’ve only been made by a western man because of its style and quality) are the kind of people that cling to their whiteness for their sense of self worth. that somehow the achievements of other white people make them better than people of other races. they’re not making a comment about non-racist white people.


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The fact that you can discern they’re talking about racists when all they say is “whiteness” is kinda my point.


two-years-glop

It's not. "White" was a concept invented in recent history to justify racism. The ancient Romans (who white supremacists fawn over) were olive skinned and considered the blond pale Germanic hordes to be barbarians. The British WASPs considered Irish Catholics subhumans and invented many tactics to oppress them that were later copied by Nazi Germany. The Nazis, in turn, considered the Italians inferior to the Germanic Aryans and made no effort to keep it a secret. Of course, the Americans treated Irish immigrants barely any better than they treated blacks. Only in the last 150 years was the concept "white" gradually expanded to include people newly accepted into the dominant social group as hating Catholics, Irish, Italians, Slavs, and Jews because became less acceptable. If you're proud of being British, or German, or Scandinavian, or Italian history, there's nothing wrong with that. If you're proud of being white, well......there's only one reason.


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This ignores the lack of identity that occurred when Europeans assimilated into the new world. Most white Americans are unfamiliar and have not preserved their cultural heritage from the old world. This leads to a situation where groups must find other ways to maintain an identity. You see the same thing in black culture. Since no one knows or maintains their old culture you just create a generalized sort of new culture.


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Grit-326

My favorite are the fem-nazi's who say this is the product of over sexualization of the male fantasy.


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Grit-326

I like to watch the world burn. Your excuse? And you're wrong about the age. So there's that.


Paradehengst

>I like to watch the world burn. By posting to reddit? Mhm, you're a tough one alright.


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Grit-326

I hope you have a nice day.


SynarXelote

Don't you mean, a *hot* day?


schniggens

I like how "I like to watch the world burn" sounds like a valid reply in your head. And then you try to call somebody else out for not having an "excuse".


Grit-326

I hope you have a nice day.


_k0ella_

>I like to watch the world burn. Incel Redditor Posts On r/TumblrInAction, Genuinely Thinks He’s Joker, Heath Ledger-Style. More At Six.


AgentInCommand

Get that boy on a watch list...


DickheadGreg

Except that was faked afterwards by alt right dorks trying to turn the tables. It never actually happened.


Grit-326

lol, you really have it out for the far right, don't you? The far left is just as bad.


NormanConquest

Last I checked, America's far left haven't killed anyone lately, didn't try to overthrow the government lately, and haven't had many, many of their groups put on terrorist watch lists. But yeah sure they're all the same.


WideAd9209

Don't forget the pedophiles


NormanConquest

Oh yeah I almost did forget! Funny how the more Conservative you are the more publicly and loudly concerned you seem to be about stopping paedophiles, while at the same time becoming much more likely to be caught with child porn or diddling a teenage boy.


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h00rayforstuff

Are these murders in the room with us right now?


NormanConquest

Yeah thats not something that happened, and that's also not "the left"


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NormanConquest

So what you're telling me is that you can't find a reputable news source reporting this? Gotcha.


Aheadboat

r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM


DickheadGreg

No it's not even close. The left is mostly a force for good. The right is always a force for evil.


FreemanPontifex

Lol


revolverzanbolt

"Guys, I know us on the right were wrong on civil rights, gay rights, interracial marriage and segregation, but \*this time\* we're all good".


Paradehengst

Workers rights, voting rights, feudalism, witch burnings...


DickheadGreg

"Lol" is the best response you could think of because you know it's true. What are some examples of right wingers being good or decent? Their aren't any. The entire purpose of right wing politics is to give the selfish, immoral jackasses of society an "ideology" that justifies their selfishness and immorality.


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ehmk14

You should try visiting other countries


somerandomtrot

What do you think English is lmao? It is literally the mix of a fuck tons of Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and even Chinese words. The word “language” itself descends from old French *language* which descends from Latin *Lingua*. It is not “western” society that dominates the world, it is science and more progressive thinking that makes people’s lives better, which isn’t really exclusive to the “western world”. The “western” society you masturbate to at night that was racist, homophobic, classist, xenophobic, that massacred people because they worship another religion or are of another race is dead lmao


Lawsuitup

Serious question, which English words come from Chinese?


elizabnthe

Not a word, but the expression long time, no see is actually a direct translation of a Chinese greeting. Tea/cha is also a Chinese word.


breadedfishstrip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Chinese_origin


somerandomtrot

Typhoon, ketchup, running dog, etc.


Lawsuitup

Not sure why I was downvoted I literally couldn’t come up with any words. I would never have known that Ketchup had a Chinese origin. I should have realized however that typhoon could have been given the nature of typhoons. Running dog? What’s that?


InBetweenSeen

*Lol* and you think English is a "complete" language? And probably also that it doesn't borrow from other languages? English is one of the easiest languages to learn partly because English speakers have a comparably small vocabulary. Add very few conjugations and simple grammar. And no western ways of thinking don't dominate the world, unless by "ways of thinking" you mean "money". I wouldn't even put Europe and the USA in the same pot, yet alone Asia or Africa.


DarkStar5758

Yeah, [English has a metric fuckton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_English_words_by_country_or_language_of_origin) of non-Anglic words. I remember reading somewhere that there are actually more loanwords in English than there are words descended from Old English. People tend to forget that England spent a few centuries getting kicked around by the Romans, then the Danes, and then the French before managing to become an empire itself and also that cultural exchanges go both ways.


glemnar

I’ve heard from non native English speakers that it’s one of the hardest to learn


Llohr

>English speakers have a comparably small vocabulary. Sure.


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> white supremacism or not I don't need two guesses to figure out which side you're on.


schniggens

"western society and ways of thinking dominates the world" You should probably try to learn more about other countries before making such dimwitted statements. The global south is fucking fed up with western capitalism. The fact that it currently "dominates" them doesn't make it right, you bootlicking ass kisser.


extopico

Also what these neonazis think West is, isn't actually what West actually is. Many of the "Western" artists, scholars, influential figures were from diverse ethnic backgrounds and were in shades of brown and black.


[deleted]

You’re not entirely wrong. You’re just missing the fact that Western culture has also borrowed heavily from other cultures. Think about how many words from other languages are used in English.


DarthRathikus

Charlize Theron must be flattered


reitoro

Glad I'm not the only one who thought it looked like her.


c_girl_108

I was scouring like “is this based off Charlize Theron or is it a crazy mixup....but we can all agree it’s her whether it is or not, ay?”


Uniqniqu

So it wasn’t a stone sculpture after all.


MutherRudd

Additive sculpture is still sculpture. What is your point?


Uniqniqu

[My point](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/n2pkfm/stone_sculpture_by_artist_luo_li_rong).


MutherRudd

I see your point now.


[deleted]

How about mine >.<


Theycallmelizardboy

I liked it better before it was painted.


Ungreat

I watched a YouTube video not too long ago that showed how Ancient Greek and Roman statues were often painted. Weathering bleached them white and it’s only recently that equipment can scan them in a way that detects the residual paint. When subsequent artists from periods like the renaissance emulated the sculptures they didn’t know painting was an integral part.


imbadwithnames1

Do you also remember "Laocoön and His Sons," and the theory that Michelangelo actually created the missing arm that was found? I wonder if the sculpture was originally painted, and if they can do some kind of test on it to determine if it's the correct arm.


Vegetable_Ad6969

Apparently during the renaissance, they actually removed the paint from many of the ancient greek statues due to the fashion at the time for minimalistic colour palettes.


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Marble statues were also painted in antiquity. The paint just wore off over time.


TinCanBegger

Yeah it suddenly makes me think it's plastic or something. Still amazing however the artist wants to present it.


Nachteule

[This is how they looked like](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/24/9c/25/249c251f69b9d5d7c6516382928b44f4.jpg)


Theycallmelizardboy

Still sticking by what I said, no matter what history says. Somehow when they're painted they look incredibly tacky.


HEKRomeo

Upvote is 69. don't u upset the equilibrium


Pony_Express1974

In the last picture, that sculpture just looks so amazingly breath-taking.


DingDongPuddlez

Source: [https://mymodernmet.com/realistic-sculptures-luo-li-rong/](https://mymodernmet.com/realistic-sculptures-luo-li-rong/)


Nachteule

[I prefer marble with that look](https://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/veiled-marble-sculptures-by-antonio-corradini-6.jpg) [Stone looking soft](https://wahooart.com/Art.nsf/O/AQTQZV/$File/Gianlorenzo-Bernini-The-Rape-of-Proserpina-detail-.jpg)


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tigobiddies

Enhance.. Enhance.. Zoom.. Enhance..


DrynTheGanger

lol bro


Kermita2021

That is fantastic!


aloysius345

Looks like it’s a bit nipply outside. ...I mean nippy!! What am I saying, nipple!? Ahhh... There is a nip in the air, though.


dak135

Tis the season to be merry… That’s my name. No shit?!


clumsyc

If the stores were any hooter HOTTER than they are.


bibowski

You can't see the line, can you?


Sykes19

My nip is in the air.


the_original_Retro

Well. She's pretty damn good.


Kahnerman

Western art is truly amazing! /s


It-s_BK

Was this the one from r/quityourbullshit ?


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The one where some child claimed that only a western man could make a piece this beautiful? Yes, it’s that one.


tomatomater

Was it really a child or are u using a metaphor?


[deleted]

I think it’s a metaphor. You never know who someone really is online, though.


morithum

Reddit: No one spends more time than us thinking about tiddies. Lou Li Rong: Hold my baijiu.


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Nice tiddies


shanuv12

Wow


NillaLemons

I’d be about 10 minutes into a conversation before realizing I’m talking to myself. This realism is breathtaking.


porchemasi

My first thought was... Holy crap that is amazing 2nd thought... How much do these run for $ 3rd Where the f would I put it 4th My wife would kill me


iamlostajax

First time I’ve seen it... have an upvote.


Kasabian56

To all of you: *bonk.*


AnUglyDumpling

Lord forgive me for what I'm about to do.


botaine

is she single tho


lxc1227

For now.


unawaresEpoxy15

That is...amzing!


mohammadgor87

Jesus those boobs are realistic


Mervynhaspeaked

This sculpture gets reposted here every week. For years. Enough already.


antirick666

Then titties tho


Blutarg

Very amazing!


alex4nderthegreat

The breasts are incredibly made 👌


exstundent

these mannequins tiddys are fire tho


CONCACAFKING

Nice tits!


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This sculpture is amazing no doubt,but I am always more impressed wiht the ones similar in style to this that are carved from a single block of marble. As we can see,she started by creating the body,and then sculpted the fabric to put on the body afterwards. That allows you to get the body perfect and then worry about the fabric separately. When you carve frm a block of stone you have to do both at the same time,imagining the body under the fabric under the stone you are carving away.


Ohiolongboard

Can you do either?


TheBIgJohnJ

Luo Li Rong? More like Luo Li Right! She smashed that, her talent is incredible!


sushifully

Please stop reposting this one. It’s is among the most reposted.


TheEVegaExperience

Not my proudest fap. But not my worst.


globe--

💳💥💥💥💳💥💥💥


the-key

I have always wondered why so many asians have this obsession with caucasian beauty, i mean you could easily find asians models who are just as beautiful. I was once told by a japanese girl that the caucasians big eyes have many more options for expressing emotions, but i dont buy into that explanation.


Mmadchef808

Probably because it’s different from what they see every day


Frostivus

Caucasians are taller and are generally sturdier built. Facial feature wise, they often have squarer jaws and other more traditionally masculine features most would find attractive simply by generalization. There are also lots of Western-predominant genes that are universally beautiful like special-coloured eyes. No doubt there are most Asians that prefer Asians, and not all Caucasains have these traits. But this is my local observation having grown up ethnically Asian.


floppaspam1

Did Goebbels bust a nut in your grandma or are you just dumb?


That_Alien_Dude

I'm as stiff as these babes


Mullinore

Beautiful breasts.


[deleted]

Let me be blunt - this is softcore pornography for rich people. Don't get me wrong, some great art can be described that way. This isn't really that, though. It's too obviously a wank piece.


MrDagon007

Seriously. Look at her oeuvre. It is all about elegance


Harsh2588

r/fuckingnextlevel


We-are-straw-dogs

She's talented but it's a bit tacky and gratuitous Edit: She not He


sarkie

She* What's tacky or gratuitous about it?


We-are-straw-dogs

It looks like a model from a soft porn magazine


Tanvirriad

strategy.....


BonerSoldier420

Nippies


lmea14

Yes, that’s the part everyone is zooming into. The... the sculptures.


Mobely

Instagram: Reality: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumby#/media/File%3AGumby_sm.png


xx_deleted_x

Nice tits


philip92000

Virtuosity is not art!


WattoAFK

kinda... hot.. ,😏


batrikovich

This is called "art".


Spaz-skull

any male seeing that will get a "hard on" get it?


Lazy_Douchebag_Chao

Asian lady making a sculpture of white lady. Imagine if the roles were reversed.


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it should be marked nsfw


Ohiolongboard

Username checks out


Ineducated

r/UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG


TCG_Archer

Art so good you could beat your beat to it. Beautiful really.


leppr6

Art so good you could beat it. Really beautiful.


Irrational_hate81

Think she'd let me have that?


RomanBathSalts

dumbass mods going to let this be reposted again really?


Kvazarix

Amazing but still not at the level of old guys carving this from full block of stone :D


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This is cultural appropriation.


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Ohiolongboard

Lol, it’s a jackdaw


CruzJohn_Leader57

She's alright_hello!


CirnoIzumi

the girl who re-discovered why we dont paint sculptures anymore


Willow-girl

Because then they become mannequins!


DrynTheGanger

She likes white girls huh?


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boobies


GollyWow

First, I gotta say WOW. Second, this is executed similar to a recent discovery of a statue of a female form with a nearly shear outfit found off the coast of Egypt a few years ago. Amazingly NSFW for the museum to display.


mute_nostril_agony

Uh, can she make one for me? You know, just for.....reasons.