Well if you have a minute then have a look at this. It looks a bit like a “set-square” one used at school but I would hate to meet it coming the other way! http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1873835624
Some important sculpture to be seen
Rodin’s hand Another of Rodin’s hands, much more interesting, but can you get your thumb like that? one of his best I think. Rodin again, mmm…………..MINOTAURE, VERSION AUX CORNES DROITES! A nightmare? Renoir’s child’s head Rodin dance movement, bit extreme! Degas girl Another Degas girl, better pose, At least when there is an economic wave […]
Practise makes perfect
I am honoured; I have just discovered that I was “blog of the day” on LW Godsil’s blog for June 5th. Her jewellery is amazing, see here http://lwgodsilsjadisjewelry.blogspot.com/2008/06/practice.html She mentioned the proverb “practise makes perfect”; recently I heard on the wireless a discussion on music and the acquisition of real skill at playing an instrument; […]
Ola Cohn’s tax burden
I found this below quite by chance about a pupil of Henry Moore called Ola Cohn; depressing is it not! She was quite a pioneer for Australian sculpture too. I hope Chris will look kindly at her for his list of 20c sculptors. The winning of a scholarship allowed her another year but by October […]
Mark Coreth
An old soldier, younger than me and a sculptor too, has followed Hannibal’s example and marched an elephant over the Alps. Mark’s elephant was a bronze life size one though and far from being a Trojan horse it is now being admired for a very different reason in Rome. Mark is exhibiting some smaller things […]
“The American” Sculpture
“Tulsa is the best kept secret in the heartland”. What news on this project? Will the credit crunch affect the time scale? Is bronze the best material for a work that size? 60 feet taller than the Statue Of Liberty; Good luck Shan Gray. http://www.theamerican.com/home/index.cfm?&Flash=1 http://theamerican.com/9/resources/TulsaWorld_6.pdf http://www.individual.com/story.php?story=90293120
Summer Flowers for Marley
Some flowers from our garden Marley, as promised. (1st one, more to come)
Monsieur William Bouguereau is well represented
Lovers of the works displayed on the Art Renewal Centre, who want to invest in fine art which goes on the wall should be in New York this week-end to visit Sotheby’s exhibition. A rare occasion to see these paintings before the get locked away again. There are some well known names there, Monsieur Bouguereau […]
Sculpture Garden Project
Diana, Paolo Persico and Tommaso Solari 1770 -1780 Statue of Apennine, Giambologna 1569- 1581 Ian, here are a couple of ideas for a garden project, or back-yard project depending on which side of the pond you live! Pictures thanks to Taschen.
Art, essential reading?
Now I am constantly discussing Art with experts which is unnerving because “like everyone else I know nothing of Art”. I suffer from grumpy old male syndrome and “can’t stand intolerance of any kind”!! These are two books I have acquired. The one on the left send to me by a grateful publisher who needed […]
