This delightful work by Paul Philippe (1870-1930) would do justice to Michelangelo’s adage that one should be able to roll a marble down a hill without the limbs breaking off! 63cm high it is perhaps the best I have seen of his work to date. Thanks to again Sotheby’s
The Birthday Parade
Today was our Sovereign’s official birthday. Her birthday parade went off well in the sunshine with the Taffs trooping. Next week we celebrate The Royal Meeting.
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
Is one allowed to fall in love with a girl who died 166 years ago aged 87? She was clearly a very colourful lady. She survived the French Revolution despite being very closely connected to the French Queen (25 portraits) and continued on to be a celebrated painter for the rest of her life. Her […]
Violence in the arts, Pierre Puget, Milo of Crotona
Violence in the arts is nothing new. The ‘Greek Athlete Attacked By A Lion’ contrasts vividly with Bernini’s Proserpine in dealing with pressure on the flesh which seems to have been quite popular at this time. Had there been added colour in the marble bright red blood would have been flowing freely down the Athlete. […]
Pierre Julien and Augustin Pajou seated figures
The ‘Psyche Abandoned’, ‘Adriadne Abandoned’ and ‘The Bacchante’, by Augustin Pajou (1730-1809) that The French Site has chosen today are of interest. All in very similar pose they show significant differences. The difference in size and the quality of photograph have to be taken into account. Lighting and foreshortening can destroy a carefully considered opinion. […]
Prejudice in Art
By sculptor on June 12, 2008 in Art History, Artists, Literature, sculptor, Sculpture, Sir Thomas Browne
Just how much are you influenced by suggestion, your parents, your teachers, your peers? If you are told something is good or interesting then will you believe it? If it is on show in a museum – exhibition- will you automatically accept that it should demand your attention? Or are you the sort who hates […]
Gilbert and the Thick Limbs
Before I get that book and I find I have to rethink every thing, I thought I might post a couple of pictures of Sir Alfred Gilbert. The outside ‘Eros’ (in Aluminium) of Piccadilly Circus fame has quite a thin ankle but when we look at an earlier work above in Marble we see some […]
Ankles and Limbs in Marble & Bronze
Above is Mercury by Pigalle. Much sort after by students of the premier art! I have been at work all day manning an exhibition and have been thinking about ankles and limbs and things. Thought I would share a few with you!
New work of Art, Sculpture idea concieved, day one
I am so glad that Swallow and Museworthy have caused me to look again at Bernini’s greatest master piece. This has crystallised an idea I have had for years but have postponed and put off and delayed, and considered and thought about and got concerned about and worried about and thought about again and lost […]
Michelangelo’s Women and Men
Back view of the so called slingshot. A Lovely Washerwoman by Greuse in the Getty Museum ‘Ideal Head’ Ugly David? Ugly david’s profile Detail of Christ carrying the cross Detail of Christ in the Pieta in the Vatican Good looking Slave Beautiful Mary; Detail Pitti Tondo Florence Beautiful Mary in Bruges Detail of Pieta; Beautiful […]
