The Metropolitan is attributing this painting to a young Michelangelo. With all due respect I love when idiots who have never drawn a single line try to attribute art to someone. They have no understanding of line quality, structure, or even the spirit of a given artist (which generally exists in line) For a non artist to try to attribute art is like a plumber taking over and doing your prostate exam. NOT SMART. I look at some leonardo drawings and I laugh out loud. I often say to myself--"that was the day leonardo was on the sauce--" or "that is the day he decided to see what it was like to draw like a gimp moron--" This is as much a Michelangelo as Obama and Bush were great presidents. If you are going to try to understand an artist and his soul then study and copy his drawings for years and years and years and eventually you can grok the essential essence of his work and easily spot the frauds. I dont want to knock the met because one day I will have some work in there but dont feed me the biscuit of false attribution because I aint eating it...
this is the quote that made me want to go kick something..
Fahy said, "I had a eureka moment one day when I was standing in front of the picture. I suddenly realized what all those rocks were. The setting is a scene in a quarry, which is totally unlike the landscapes in Florence where Michelangelo lived. And I said, 'Wow, look at all those stones.' I was reminded of the time in 1497 when Michelangelo was complaining about all the time he spent in the quarry at Carrara, what life was like spending eight uninterrupted months with so many workmen—no restaurant around the corner, no library, really roughing it."
I know all about the time michelangelo spent in that quarry and by then he was an amazing artist, not some four thumbed jasper johns unskilled monkey. I must defend him because he aint around to do it himself and I could here him grumbling that they tried to force this velvet elvis on his ass...
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