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Forth Plinth

Nicely in keeping with the rest of Trafalgar Square it now seems it has its own website so we can admire it anywhere in the world from our PC. One consolation is what it replaced. Roll on the next replacement.http://www.fourthplinth.org.uk/thomas_schutte.htm

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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 […]

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Franta Belsky

We had some fun yesterday, my wife’s aunt held a party for the reinstallation of her sculpture which was stolen a year or two ago. I was able to complete another one of the edition for her. After a very good party I remembered that she had lent me a book about a friend of […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Carl Eldh Sculptor from Sweden

I have just found another sculptor of note from the Northern reaches of Europe. It is so satisfying to finding a new Sculptor. It matters not that the rest of the world know all about him and I am as usual late on the scene! I am indebted to these two websites for the following […]

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