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Published online 18 January 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.351
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Artists vie for long life
Benefits of exercise might explain why sculptors outlive painters.
Looking for artistic longevity? Work in stone, not paint.
So conclude researchers who have found that old-master sculptors lived longer than painters.
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I am a sculptor working in welded metal on medium and large scales. I've often thought that the reason I stay fairly trim is that it is indeed hard work, at least at times. My wife, a graphic designer, feels the need to go to the gym regularly. Thank you for this article. Maybe it will pursuade her that I don't need to go so much! Thinking . . . perhaps one solution is for her to start using a graphics stylus that weighs 10 or 12 lbs.
I am a college student in arts.I didnot pay any attention about the difference among artists' life before reading the passage.
very interesting story. I aggree with the paint fums, but the stone dust is also dangerous, I am a stone carver, it keeps you in shape.
Lead is more toxic than stone? - I think so. And how much of the painters have lifed in poorness if compared to the sculptors? - I think a lot more. Like this days, to paint is much cheaper than to carve. Anyway, what would lead to a man without ears? - Give 4 additional years to van Gogh...