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 […]
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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
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.
Contemporary Sculpture
On the subject of contemporary art, I have seen this work and liked it. The foundry told me it was extremely difficult to do. The outside of the shell is highly burnished; you can see your face in it! This clearly illustrates just how versitile bronze can be. Some of those figures on Philip Jackson’s […]
Sculpture is the Be All And End All in Visual Art. Official.
Did you spot the Sculpture Diaries on TV this evening? Waldemar Januszczak Art critic of Channel Four, sets out to prove that sculpture is the single most important subject in Visual Art. He is right of course, I look forward to the next two episodes. As an aside though; he did bring up some stuff […]
Grave
Ummm…see comments on the last post but one to see why I added this.
Top of all sculpture?
I hope that one day someone will be able and willing to tell the world a little more about this work. Technically it is amazing what ever size it is; carved marble! Now think about that and send Michelangelo back to school. Aesthetically it would be difficult to better; certainly not a classical pose and […]
