Unfinished sculpture

Artistic genius can be a flighty thing. No sooner have you started on a project than another brilliant idea enters your head and you turn to that. Leonardo da Vinci was famed for his creations in his day but he was also infamous among his patrons for his inability to deliver on promised artworks. One

Michelangelo's Slaves or Prisoners are exceptional in showing the master's approach to creating sculpture: to chip away the excess of marble as the powerful figures inside that were already contained within.

In 'Captives #B04' Quayola uses computational processes to re-form unfinished Renaissance sculpture.

Captives Captives is an ongoing series of digital and physical sculptures by Quayola and a contemporary homage to Michelangelo’s unfinished series “Prigioni” (1513-1534) and his technique of “non-finito”. The project explores tensions and equilibrium between form and matter, man-made objects of perfection and complex, chaotic forms of nature. In this series mathematical functions and processes […]

i respect the man and his achievements greatly, but this statue seems a bit off ... it reminds me of North Korean statues and kim jong il.. gives me an uneasy feeling looking at it.

Gaya Lastovjak / artist on Instagram: “Unfinished, original size paper mache sculpture, Art festival "5 station", Katowice, 2017 Sold in AT ART Gallery #art #artist #sculpture…”

The Pietà Rondanini – created in two stages, between 1552 and 1553 and later between 1555 and 1564 – is the great, unfinished work on which Michelangelo spent the last days of his life, chisel or gradine in hand. It is currently on display in Milan’s Sforza Castle.

"An Unfinished Sculpture" by Michelangelo