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Archive | Sculpture
Three Graces 3
Not too sure about this one, if is yours, sorry for not asking, please let me know. They are wire?It is time I posted up some ‘Three Graces’, there are plenty more but few in the 20th or 21c as Chris Miller said.
More Lady American Sculptresses 4
When I started the posts I had no idea what I had promised to do. There are lot of them and they did a lot of good stuff. There are even a few doing some good stuff today! (Master of the understatement) I also must mention how impressed I am at the speed with which […]
More Lady American Sculptresses 3
Today I add some more of Bessie Potter Vonnoh works, a portrait by her husband with her below. She had a tendancy to add little birds and buterflies. Both the Vonnohs were keen on wild life. Central park New York, The Secret Garden memorial for Burnett. Burnett’s story is well worth reading. Her best known […]
More Three Graces- Carpeaux
Here is another Terracotta by Jean Baptiste Carpeaux ‘The Three Graces’ 1874 which I have added to the three graces post however I still think the Daphnis et Chloe of 1875 is a better work. The three graces is big; 31 inches high (79cm). Does anyone have a picture of the other side? Thank you […]
Paul Philippe French Sculptor
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
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 […]
