A Ballestriero's Paper on Wax Sculpture

The uncanny valley effect would have also been present with wax. Wax allows you to get so close to reality that it unnerves me, is the art real or not? You know, i can look at a marble sculpture and walk through a sculpture garden, and, yes, these are beautiful and lifelike in the craftsmanship,. But i don't wonder if it's real. I certainly not accusing people of having taken corpses of their victims as the models for these stone works of art. Yes. And por can be created. It is flesh like. It can be colored, it can be moulded. The realism actually counted against it for the aesthetics of the day, yes.