Playing with new poses...took the Degas Ballerina into Cinema 4D to work a little sculpture up. A site I visited said that when Degas first did his Young Dancer, which is now beloved by many, "the sculpture outraged many viewers' sense of propriety. One critic railed: "Wishing to present us with a statuette of a dancer, he has chosen amongst the most odiously ugly.... Oh, certainly, at the very bottom of the barrel of the dance school, there are some poor girls who look like this monster.... but what good are they in terms of statuary? Put them in a museum of zoology, of anthropology, of physiology, all right: but in a museum of art, really!" This hostility was, however, very much to the point, as Degas was clearly using the sculpture to question accepted ideas of art." Amazing. It's one of the art pieces I love the most.