How does Michelangelo affect us today?

Answer 1

so how does he impact society today? for some reason, art historians and artists are rather obsessed with him as a person. he left behind quite a few poems and letters, from which we know a lot about what he was like. He's one of the first artists that we know SO much about... because just 50 or 100 years before his time, artists didn't even sign their works. in fact, he may have been one of the first to do so. .. though i can't find a source for that.

The renaissance was THE FIRST time that artists were known as individuals. before then, they were craftspeople, whose names were rarely attached to their work and rarely were they celebrated or paid well. Michelangelo had 2 biographies written about him WHILE HE WAS STILL ALIVE. in the renaissance, artists were well known and paid well to make art for the vatican or important families like the demedici. Today we still venerate the individual... we still love to read about artists, maybe not everybody reads about sculptors, but actors, actresses, and movie directors are artists too. we actually take it to great excess. Wouldn't you say in today's society that artists should "find their own unique voice"? this was hardly valued at all just a generation before michelangelo.

the other way he impacts society, i think, is in being skilled at many things. he was an architect, a painter, a sculptor, a poet. he wrote sonnets before Shakespeare did. generations of people have looked to people like michelangelo and davinci, and this is where the term "renaissance man" comes from... someone who is well-rounded and talented at many things.

Answer 2

Michelangelo influenced modern day lives in many ways. He has many of his paintings and sculptures in museums, and his fine detail and well-constructed statues motivate and inspire many young painters and sculptors today. In addition, he contrapposto,

or counter-poise method of sculpting, which means to create an illusion by twisting the human figure around a vertical axis and shifting it's weight. Michelangelo created many famous paintings, and his unique style is valued by many.

Answer 3

because he was a major artist,painter,poet,and sculpter in the itialian rennasinace