Ah! The innocent old days. Now they know what breed of dog you are, what doggy treats you like, where you like to go for walkies…
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Sure, I bet most people could replicate Michelangelo’s David, in the sense that they could make something that would definitely be recognizable as a (vague) depiction of that statue - it wouldn’t take much*. That says more about human pattern-recognition abilities more than anyone’s sculpting skills - but I’m guessing that is not what 1-in-10 people meant.
After the many decades of the old cliche of “my kid could do that” in reference to abstract art, I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that some adults think they could manage the rest of it.
*A study to show what the “minimally viable depiction of David” would be quite interesting. I’m guessing it would be quite abstract.
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obligatory…
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I guess people haven’t even tried drawing Michelangelo’s David, or any human being with reasonable proportions? Because even that takes a lot of practice.
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Full report with all percentages and exact questions asked:
And here’s the 53-page report on this survey: https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/1vukils6cx/Art_poll_results.pdf
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After the first couple of chapters, I generally run out of adjectives.
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In other news, 1 in 10 have severe Dunning-Kruger.
I took a sculpture class and had to carve something out of alabaster. It was a very simple formed angel. Ugh. I was not great at even sculpting in clay. Overall I liked the form I made, but my teacher kept urging me to do more to it. Ended up with sort of softened general forms, not clear muscles etc.
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Obligs:
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Ironically I think at best 3 out of 10 aren’t stupid
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Well, yes. You take a big slab of marble and chip off everything that doesn’t look like Michelangelo’s David. (I learned that from How To Do It on the TV as a kid.)
Mind you, David stands about 5.5 metres high, so you’ll need a slab of marble roughly the size of a station wagon.
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Yeah, photos can never really capture the scale of things like David or the Trevi Fountain.
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1 in 5 Americans clearly don’t have any idea what pornography is like.
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Pro tip: include Anita Ekberg for scale.
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Isn’t that more like 70%?
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Well, there’s your problem. You’re supposed to intersperse them with nouns and verbs and stuff. Really stretches them out. 
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When we were in Florence, we went to see David (and the rest of the Accademia).
Later that day, we walked by a gift shop and saw this David. Who appears to have been circumcised.
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There’s a conspiracy theory making the rounds in Italy that all this incredible work of art were not the product of finely honed skills but of technologies, possibly of alien origin, like 3D printing.
It all revolves around the idea that we descend from technologically advanced giants, as shown by the size of the doors of, e.g., some famous churches or the Coliseum.
Is that a nice and unique piece of Italian folklore (/s, just in case) or was it imported from overseas?
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I think that, in general, an artist’s ability to depict a baby properly (realistically; ex: Vermeer, Caravaggio) is directly proportional to their ability to depict humans… and everything else… properly. Exceptions? Deliberate stylization. I’m certain the video’s creators know all this, but focusing just on babies is hilarious!
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