No respect for beauty — that was characteristic of today’s society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as ironic references, or used in advertising. Michelangelo’s ‘The Creation of Adam’, where you see a pair of jeans in place of the spark. The whole point of the picture, at least as he saw it, was that these two monumental bodies each came to an end in two index fingers that almost, but not quite, touched. There was a space between them a millimetre or so wide. And in this space — life. The sculptural size and richness of detail of this picture was simply a frame, a backdrop, to emphasise the crucial void in its centre. The point of emptiness that contained everything. And in its place a person had superimposed a pair of jeans. John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” is an oil painting that depicts the creation of man. The statue in the painting is similar to another sculpture that Michelangelo had completed called the “David.” The “David” was a colossal statue of a nude male figure. Engraved into its body were the outlines of the human body, and between its legs was carved a roundel representing the shape of a manhole cover (which is why it is nicknamed “the butt.”) Michelangelo worked on this statue for years, intending to use it as a model for his greatest work: the Sistine Chapel. He finished it only after he was nearly blind and in poor health. However, he died before he could include the many details and the final masterpiece (he had intended to write his own epitaph).

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