Happy New Year.In my continuing search for Great Sculpture of all time (see link on the right), I had rather discounted, an American Sculptor, Frederick William MacMonnies, 1863-1937 known for such horrors as this in the Metropolitan!But I was pleasantly surprised to discover that in Brooklyn New York there is a triumphal Arch not unlike […]
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Chicago and The North of England
So what is it about Art that connects Chicago and the North of England? A couple of years ago a stone sculpture was stolen from a country house in the North of England and eventually turned up in an Art Dealers in Chicago. Now we hear that The Art Institute of Chicago was sold a […]
Painted Sculpture
It is nearly a century since the ideals and understanding of what is Art were turned upside down. In this new century, Sculpture, the premier medium for visual arts being first on the scene, has to consider again the fundamentals.A three dimensional work of art in a recognisable subject such as the human body, does […]
The Three Graces
Here are a few examples to compare of “The Three Graces” in Sculpture. They were a popular subject over the centuries like Chris’ Leda and the swan. See his blog here It is interesting from the point of view; quite literally, arranging 3 girls to best advantage. How would you do it? Now I am […]
Hands again
I am working on those hands again and found some examples in the Louvre. I am grateful to Paulo for the pictures he has taken as they remind me just how important it is to get them right. I leave you, dear reader, to decide whether they are good examples. If you were to follow […]
One of the three bears
I just love this picture. The lady was a well known American, the first American lady to setup an Art Museum. “The Whitney Museum Of American Art” The Museum was founded in 1931 with a core group of 700 art objects, many of them from the personal collection of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney herself. She was […]
Hands, Hands, Hands
My continued focus on hands and feet brought out a comment from a daughter, the one with a Degree in History of Art, that most artists have found hands difficult. We then moved on to her pet subject of Rubens who was good at hands! We inevitably moved on to Caravaggio and searching through Giorgio […]
Australia
When I first visited Chris’ Millers Figure Sculpture site more than a year ago, I noticed that there was no mention of Australia and New Zealand which worried me. I spent some time trying to find some examples to offer him but failed to fine anything suitable on the internet and so had to accept […]
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
At Easter I visited Oxford and inevitably spent much of my time here at the Ashmolean Museum Here are some of my pictures from one of the oldest Museums in Europe. Roman if I remember correctly The enticement to go up stairs Was well rewarded! Drury Ford Degas Fedi
Slavery
I came across Power’s “Greek Slave”, above, through a search for “Parian Ware” a medium in which I have recently completed a commission. (see http://iath.virginia.edu/utc/sentimnt/grslvhp.html for a brief history) Slavery and the history of slavery are not subjects I know a lot about, but it is a subject that crops up quite often in “browsing” […]
