Is It Art, Or Just A Guy With A Bad Back And No Pants?

Michelangelo's David may have been content with nothing but his sling, but The Guardian claims he really needed a Pilates workout. Among the evidence:

Poor posture and flexibility

Right side not straight

Sitting into hip, lower back pain

Weak buttock

"Clawed' toes"—weak foot muscles

Incorrect weight distribution

David's posture may be bad, but here's a QuickTime movie of TV's Goliath getting a pretty thorough back exercise.

Comments

[Temporal Insanity]

That's stupid. We don't know how long the subject is supposedly maintaing this posture for. He looks to be faily fit.

Absurd. Ridiculous.

[Psuedo]

Who decided that this is even an issue? Is this in response to the Op-Ed on the Ayn Rand Institue website that practically sucks David off as it speaks of idealized humanity?

[Thinker]

The Guardian isn't claiming anything, its the guy who came up with Pilates.

I'm assuming he meant it to be funny, otherwise he's a moron.

[curious]

what's up with that clip?

[Patrick]

Who decided that this is even an issue?

The self-serving Pilates prick did. What an asshole. What's next? Mona Lisa needs a face-lift?

[Ruthless]

Are we having a circle flit snit here?

[m]

Wow, talk about missing the obvious.
With all that nitpicking, how could they not notice he had a tiny little penis.

[Geophile]

The "sitting into hip" thing that is discussed, if memory of a gallery tour or two over the years serves me, is a device used by sculptors to balance human figures to stand on their own. If they just did a sculpture of someone standing at attention, body straight up and down, it would fall backwards, or even with a heavy base, still be poorly balanced, jeopardizing the integrity of the marble. If you look at more ancient egyptian figures, they are often seated, or if standing, have a heavy backing, as though stuck to a wall. I wish I had a link on this, now that I think of it.

[Douglas Fletcher]

Too bad David can't come to life long enough to sling a rock at Mr. Pilades' head.

[Mac Daddy Hoon]

Besides, everyone knows that the only thing wrong with David is that his right hand is completely out of proportion with the rest of his body. I guess his hand got stronger from slinging all those stones.