St. Petersburg is full of art. Works of art await you in museums and art galleries. The theater is full of art. Even walking through parks, you’ll see works of art. This is wonderful, but as someone who isn’t educated in the fine arts, I sometimes have some doubts.
Here in this photograph are two sculptures. They stand in parks in St. Petersburg.
One is most likely a copy of some ancient sculpture, probably from ancient Greece, or perhaps Rome.
The second is apparently the work of a modern artist.
But essentially, these two artists depicted the same subject, just differently.
The difference is obvious to the naked eye. Has the skill of sculptors deteriorated so much since ancient times? Or did the sculptor simply not have the time to complete the figure? Or is it just us men who have changed so much since ancient times?
Of course I’m joking. He’s an artist—that’s how he sees things. And it’s not for me, an amateur, to judge high art.