Iconoclast

Iconoclasts or “image breakers” would destroy religious images because they thought it was a sin to draw people on religious books. They believed in the commandment against the worship of carved illustrations. Their life work was to destroy all pictures to prevent artists from upsetting God. In the textbook, they show a picture that has been destroyed. All of the heads have been erased from the people in the picture. I found another sculpture by Ai WeiWei called Perspective that also has a damaged face. It is meant to display a man laying on his back, but he has no arms, and his face is distorted. This sculpture demonstrated iconoclast ideas because the face looks like it has been destroyed. The entire body is rounded out and sculpted to look like a human body except for the face. It is choppy and looks like it is missing part of his head. This is why people are led to believe that it has been destroyed.