From found to forms: metal sculptures

I recently stumbled upon the beautiful work of Joe Pogan online, an Oregon artist who creates metal sculptures of animals from “found objects” ... ’s Statement I create animal sculptures using various “found metal” objects like old watches ... , and for the compelling symbols of peace I see in many of his sculptures. As a bird lover, I’m particularly [more...]

Date: 2008-02-23 16:53:19
Blog: Drawing on Experience...

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David Roy’s Elegant Kinetic Sculptures

illusion-front-white.jpg The folks over at Cabinet of Wonders did a post on David C. Roy’s Kinetic Sculptures some time ago ... he produces today. The names of his sculptures, words such as Radiance, Illusion, Spectrum ... clockpunk result. Clockpunk indeed! Interestingly the sculptures are designed in Adobe Illustrator [more...]

Date: 2008-01-09 03:59:08
Blog: Da Vinci Automata...

Metal Shark Sculpture

VINTAGE This sculpture would make an stunning focal point for the entrance to a folk art museum or shark collection, a fabulous addition to a sculpture garden or an amazing piece of yard art. Or how about in front of an antique store, seaside shop or fishing establishment? View Metal Shark Sculpture Auction [more...]

Date: 2008-02-25 06:15:18
Blog: Weird & Bizarre Auction...

machine sculpture

machine sculpture cavernalunaris.jpg florian claar’s fragment no. 5 - ‘caverna lunaris’ - is displayed in the sculpture garden of tokyo midtown, the most beautiful mall in the world. the enormous sculpture is manufactured to incredible tolerances out of bolted [more...]

Date: 2008-02-06 17:45:29
Blog: hyperexperience...

predicate mom-native

For thousands of years, it was assumed by all artists, purchasers and purveyors of art that sculptures, by definition, stood still ... . It was always assumed that sculpture was defined by what Arthur Danto later called an artistic predicate. In this case, the artistic predicate was that sculpture is immobile. This “i” (immobility) trait [more...]

Date: 2008-02-26 16:36:21
Blog: mental tesserae...

Robert Smithson

NYTimes Editorial: Protecting a Monumental Sculpture In the northeastern United States, with all the woods and hills, ... , has caused so much concern. Rozel Point is the location of Robert Smithson’s iconic 1970 sculpture ... is not much different from drilling through the heart of Smithson’s earth sculpture. There is every [more...]

Date: 2008-02-18 14:33:05
Blog: David Hargrove...

Tire Sculptures

Tires wear out every few years, and then you have to replace them. But what happens with the old tires? ... into a sculptures, like the ones shown below: Andy Gregg's bike furniture These are created ... , sandals, sculptures, well the list seems to be never ending. And the best part is there wont be much [more...]

Date: 2008-02-25 19:47:00
Blog: Damn Cool Pics...

friday @ changchun ice sculpture. took loads of photos. was frezzing cold. but managed to pull thru. =) the ice sculpture was super duper nice. it was like that one time with jessica, sockie and friends at SG-haerbin ice sculpture. hahas ... with only 1 nike pullover bought. hahas. photos again! enjoy~ i love this pic. hahas. wells [more...]

Date: 2008-02-24 01:27:22
Blog: ` One Day I Will Shine ...

Henry Moore

cr_moore_woman.jpg I think of prehistoric Britain when I see Henry Moore’s sculptures, now on exhibit at Kew, ... assistants to help create the armatures or large blocks of polystyrene for his cast bronze sculptures, which are found in cities all over the world. I like the sculptures that are in the country [more...]

Date: 2008-01-30 07:18:26
Blog: Brits at their Best...

Tantalized bodies

NEXT WEEK AT BLOOM Australian-born artist Ron Mueck, renowned for his sculpture 'Dead Dad', shown at the Sensation exhibition in 1997, ... Cartier pour l’art contemporain, which provided Mueck with the opportunity to create new sculptures, two of which are gigantic. Whether monumental or smaller than life-size, Ron Mueck’s sculptures [more...]

Date: 2008-02-13 07:56:45
Blog: Within a Sky Full of Ea...

Chinese Ice Sculpture Festival Celebrates All Things French

French tourists visiting the renowned snow carving festival in Harbin, China, will find themselves in familiar surroundings ... 6 Giant: This Rodin inspired sculpture dwarves this man making an identical pose The festival ... . A traditional chalet, the Eiffel Tower and even a sculpture of Napoleon Bonaparte have been intricately [more...]

Date: 2007-12-20 22:00:00
Blog: unbelieveable stuff...

Urbana Sculpture

Urbana Sculpture Posted February 13th, 2008 at 03:39 AM by IlliniPundit in Urbana Champaign's Mayor got a fountain several months ago. Urbana's Mayor is now getting a sculpture: Prussing said she suggested that the city would be willing to install custom brick sidewalks, with three different colors of brick that follow [more...]

Date: 2008-02-13 09:39:00
Blog: IlliniPundit.com | Poli...

Balloon Sculptures

A long time ago when my parents were taking me to the circus I saw clowns make funny balloon animals from colorful balloons ... get some of these. Balloon Sculptures ... . It seems that they have improved their technique and now make sculptures using hundreds [more...]

Date: 2008-02-07 11:55:20
Blog: Fun Forever - Luxury fu...

The History Lesson

A sculpture of burning naked bodies greets us at Baltimore’s Holocaust Memorial ... . Underneath the sculpture are Santayana’s famous words, “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Three sets of train tracks lay behind the sculpture. The tracks, much like the original [more...]

Date: 2008-02-21 16:26:41
Blog: The boy with the thorn ...

Luxury Sculptures, in woods, for gardens and sandstone

WoodRoyal® Studio is a sculpture workshop of wood carving arts, life-size statues and bass-relief masterworks ... commissioned design available on request. Our Sculptures are created using a variety of materials from sandstone, wood, terra-cotta, clay, fiberglass, teak, monkey wood, gypsum and cement WoodRoyal® Studio [more...]

Date: 2008-02-25 00:28:06
Blog: Luxury Furniture...

Mezzanine Gallery: “Manufacturing Sympathies” by Matthew Boonstra

Matthew Boonstra works primarily with fabricated steel and cast bronze to create abstract sculptures ... with steel or bronze to make them non-functional. He earned his BFA in sculpture from Eastern Michigan ... he is pursuing his MFA in sculpture. Beer Bottle [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 04:13:43
Blog: Lansing Art Gallery » W...

How a Mohammad statue ended up at the Supreme Court

The other day, Will and Jason told me about a Mohammad statue at the Supreme Court they heard about on This American Life ... after 146 years of existence. supremecourt.jpg Sculpture figures prominently in the Corinthian architecture of the Court Building. One chamber features a frieze decorated with a bas-relief sculpture [more...]

Date: 2008-01-11 22:29:33
Blog: mental_floss magazine -...

‘The Awakening’ moves from Hains Point to National Harbor

After resting in place for nearly 30 years — if that can be said of a figure that eternally struggles to climb from the earth — the cast aluminum ... development. Peterson bought large figure last year from the Sculpture Foundation, which has held ... sculpture known as “The Awakening” left its home Wednesday from the southernmost tip of Washington [more...]

Date: 2008-02-20 20:18:18
Blog: BeyondDC Newsfeed...

The Awakening

Wow. I don't know how I feel about this. They've moved The Awakening. While I haven't seen it since Steve and Rachel and I visited DC in 2002 ( ... -- if that can be said of a figure that eternally struggles to climb from the earth -- the cast aluminum sculpture ... , three cranes, one barge and a pair of small front-end loaders, the iconic sculpture was [more...]

Date: 2008-02-23 17:12:47
Blog: Mountain Musings -- Dip...

…and thanks for all the fish

Dear Friends of Oyster Bay: It is with no small degree of sadness that I am announcing the forthcoming closing of Oyster Bay Sculpture Garden and Aquarium. For those of you who know me well, you know that the time since ... performance space but don’t have the capacity to do anything with it. The legendarily-dynamic sculpture [more...]

Date: 2008-02-17 14:25:23
Blog: Second Arts...

RM2million Sculpture at Kiaraville

Kiaraville has made good its promise to provide world-class sculpture in their development when they unveiled Eng Tay’s masterpiece recently ... each of his million Ringgit, half-ton bronze scupltures into position at the Kiaraville condomininium ... , the two bronze musicians from Eng Tay’s Companion and Solo III series were finally in place at the Mont’ [more...]

Date: 2008-02-04 07:36:26
Blog: Property Malaysia ...

On Form (or from Polykleitos to Janine Antoni)

Mark Rothko Untitled 1948 When we look at art, are we only seduced by what we think is beautiful? ... ? As an artist is it our role to make beautiful things (paintings, sculptures, film, ideas etc ... Greek sculptor Polykleitos. He made two sculptures of human figures, one made according to popular [more...]

Date: 2008-02-19 04:21:20
Blog: PORT - Portland art + n...

Moving Day For "The Awakening"

By Anita Huslin After resting in place for nearly 30 years -- if that can be said of a figure that eternally struggles to climb from the earth -- the cast aluminum sculpture known as "The Awakening" left its home Wednesday from the southernmost tip ... trucks, three cranes, one barge and a pair of small front-end loaders, the iconic sculpture...Please [more...]

Date: 2008-02-20 10:01:14
Blog: WashBiz Blog - (washing...

Coming Soon Underneath Harpo Studio Chairs: The Miniature Oprah Deity C ELEBRITY GOSSIPS ARE BETTING THAT AMERICA'S FIRST LADY OF TV, OPRAH, ... of his sculptures depicting celebrities or their poop in bronze. Among his creations: A sculpture of Britney Spears in labor, a "bust" of Hillary Clnton, and a dead Paris Hilton as public service announcement [more...]

Date: 2008-02-18 23:25:21
Blog: CrabbyGolightly...

Polymer Clay Sculpture

Thanks to blog reader Patch, I got referred to SaraJane Helms’ website where she and other polymer-clay-artist friends are making a miniature quilt ... artform. They have continued with the clay as I have proceeded first to soft block printing ... he thinks something like I do, he made a wig head into a polymer and glass bead sculpture (I’ve made both [more...]

Date: 2008-02-20 05:01:17
Blog: Colorjoy! ...

Andy Goldsworthy

I pay attention. I pay attention to things that are going on here in Aspen, community events, concerts, movies, talks, etc ... artist living in Scotland (thus he's often referred to as a Scottish artist) who creates sculpture ... it so inspiring that he immediately went out in our backyard and created an ice sculpture using the large [more...]

Date: 2008-02-19 14:59:35
Blog: Mountain Musings -- Dip...

Superbowl Weekend Links!

plastic balloon Odd: Sonic Boiling, boiling water through sound! Sculpture: a whistling sculpture. very mysterious ... , and proceeds go to charity. Bids are up to 34k, and auctions ends Monday) Art: Troika cloud sculpture [more...]

Date: 2008-02-03 19:35:39
Blog: designverb...

Attention at the Atlanta Airport

Atl_sculpture With a couple of hours to spare when I arrived at the "world's busiest airport", Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International, ... the moving walkways I came upon some of the most spectacular stone sculpture I've ever seen. Created by artists from the African nation of Zimbabwe, it was, at times, emotional to view them. An example [more...]

Date: 2008-02-12 15:41:34
Blog: Connecting the Dots...

Muhammad, US Courts and Creeping Shiah

I have been to the Supreme Court building twice, but I never realized that there is a statue of Muhammad on the court building ... Sculptures of Muhammad By Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com This month, Denmark's police foiled ... -identical American courthouse sculptures of Muhammad. In 1997, the Council on American-Islamic [more...]

Date: 2008-02-26 17:25:05
Blog: YID With LID...

Tour de california

SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TVFirst up is “Survivor,” because nothing much happened in regards to Yau-Man this week ... galleries. The Greek and Roman sculpture courtyard, the European paintings wing, and the Temple of Dendur. Here’s a shocker: Rami chose to the Greek and Roman sculpture room! Everyone else steered clear [more...]

Date: 2008-02-18 19:00:18
Blog: matinae’s blog — Just a...

Art Gallery and Home For Sale

Andrew Long, with one of his paintings. When we were at the party last Wednesday, I was anchored against the wall ( ... so they filled the two (over 2000 sq. foot) homes with paintings and sculpture and turned them into a giant ... and he was showing sculpture made from recycled and broken windshield glass and metal tubing, cables [more...]

Date: 2008-01-27 14:08:09
Blog: Austin, Texas Daily Pho...

Growing Greener

For eons, walls of greenery have surrounded people and creatures living in jungles, rainforests and other lush places ... and sculpture for their gardens, from elaborate topiary sculptures and mazes to vine-covered walls ... to achieve by other means. The inclusion of real, living plants on a large scale in places where you don’ [more...]

Date: 2008-02-19 07:25:12
Blog: thecoolhunter.net...

art is cool continued

more of my favorite pieces (i am really learning to appreciate sculpture so much more now that i am taking this class). the first sculpture is a flavian woman and her curls are done with a drill in marble! impressive. the middle portrait with teh older looking man is done in the veristic (or extreme realism) style [more...]

Date: 2008-02-25 21:32:02
Blog: the divine ms. m...

El Anatsui at Jack Shainman

Fading Scroll, 2007, aluminum and copper wire, 88 x 472 inches I have given up trying to cover gallery shows while they’re still up ... B, 2007, aluminum and copper wire, 155 x 236 inches You can call this work sculpture, tapestry or painting, and any description would be correct. El Anatsui is a professor of sculpture at the University [more...]

Date: 2008-02-13 22:34:17
Blog: Joanne Mattera Art Blog...

Various positions

A slash-friendly series of tiny photos of me in various places over the last month, today, in images harvested from my Flickr page ... ? Rhetorical question. I'm lying on the ground at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, Queens, in someone's sculpture installation. The sequence is that this happens just after visits to PS1 (sticker [more...]

Date: 2007-10-27 09:19:33
Blog: Click opera...

‘The fantastic’ in sculpture

At last, a reason to visit Leeds. The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds has just opened a wide-ranging survey exhibition. Against Nature: The hybrid forms of modern sculpture runs until 4th May 08… …an extraordinary ... will be filled with fantastical combinations of animal, vegetable and human creatures by some of the foremost [more...]

Date: 2008-02-11 18:15:15
Blog: D’log :: blogging since...

CRIME DOESN'T PAY when you neglect the cuneiform:ARTFUL CODGERS How a high-school dropout and his elderly parents fooled the world Robert Fulford, National Post Published: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 The fake Amarna Princess sculpture made ... sculpture made by Shaun Greenhalgh that was bought by the Bolton Council for £439,767. Shaun [more...]

Date: 2008-02-17 16:04:52
Blog: PaleoJudaica.com...

Suspects Arrested in Statue Thefts

Los Angeles: Brazen thieves responsible for the theft of five separate bronze statues and sculptures in Wilshire Area and the City of Beverly Hills ... 3, 2008, a 512-pound, six-foot-tall, bronze statue of a miner panning for gold, valued at $125,000 ... from another business on Wilshire Boulevard. On February 10, 2008, a sculpture valued at $30,000 [more...]

Date: 2008-02-19 16:42:13
Blog: LAPD Blog...

Divine Love

Here is a quote by Saint Teresa: I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, ... that I am lying. 3 Few people familiar with this sculpture think that the spear is aimed at her entrails. For many, this is an erotic sculpture and her experience is a sexualized union with God -- divine [more...]

Date: 2008-02-19 07:09:20
Blog: Integral Options Cafe...

make-believe & make-do

4:10am Feb 15th Hey, Cecelia. I’m terribly sorry, I neglected to look at my e-mail’s failed to send notices, sent on tuesday, ... out, wall and floor structure etc. etc. I just require a key and a few instructions from yourself. I’ll ... 3 min 4. Erich Flaxman - sculpture, paintings, drawings 5. Dave McGuinness - four lamp sculptures [more...]

Date: 2008-02-24 20:44:47
Blog: Workshop Showroom...

10 Photos from Our Time in Japan

The delicious food, the amazingly nice people, the sites, the experience, Japan is one of our favorite places ... for the giant snow and ice sculptures. It was also very cool to spend an evening with Michael and Takako of Smashcut Media. castle The ice sculptures were amazing - I call this one "see food [more...]

Date: 2008-02-18 07:16:41
Blog: Video: RSS in Plain Eng...

Glad I voted against that community college proposition

Did my tax dollars pay for this? From Pasadena Now: PCC To Honor Ex-Trustee Miele With A Sculpture The piece is by artist Simi Dabah and entitled "Children at Play" A sculpture honoring the 24 years of service of retired trustee Susana Miele to the Pasadena Area Community College District will be unveiled in a ceremony on the grounds [more...]

Date: 2008-02-16 08:01:41
Blog: Pasadena's Political Un...

Edward Ihnatowicz - The Senster

Edward Ihnatowicz was a Cybernetic Sculptor active in the UK in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s ... influential kinetic sculptures ever made. It consisted of a fifteen-foot-long steel frame articulated in six ... . His ground-breaking sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works [more...]

Date: 2008-01-16 00:06:55
Blog: Networked_Performance...

Ford Of Canada Lets Customers Stand For The Brand

by Karl Greenberg, Thursday, Feb 28, 2008 5:00 AM ET FORD MOTOR COMPANY OF CANADA is launching its biggest marketing push in six years with a ... the dance troupe Pilobolus, famous for creating sculptures out of the intertwined forms ... creating sculptures of vehicles like Ford Fusion, Focus and Edge with their bodies and car wheels [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 11:46:05
Blog: ibranz Branding Resourc...

Inspired by Buddha, Admired as Art

By LILY KOPPEL The stars of the show arrived in wooden crates at Kennedy Airport on New Year’s Eve ... in the sutra was the inspiration for Mr. Ito’s first major sculpture, the “Great Parinirvana,” depicting ... resin Buddha is Mr. Ito’s largest work and Shinnyo-en’s central devotional image. The sculpture [more...]

Date: 2008-02-20 04:16:13
Blog: Buddha & Asian antique...

Human sculptures

The gigantic modern bronze figures of taiwanese sculptor Ju Ming are inspired by the ancient Chinese martial art of tai chi chuan. His sculpted bodies in action remind me of the playstation statue-like forms of people playing with playstation. Our next step is to create 3d sculptures of people playing second life and exhibit [more...]

Date: 2008-01-22 17:10:07
Blog: Architectradure: Seamle...

Kinetic sculpture connects bike pedals to sound creation

San Francisco based artist Bernie Lubell's wood sculptures are some of the most inspirational kinetic art pieces around. His latest, "A Little Breathing Room" (2007), connects a custom built wooden bicycle to a large wood blower that causes a latex wall to "breathe". The air also produces a tone in a 10' wood organ [more...]

Date: 2008-02-06 15:00:00
Blog: Daily DIY Network - Sc...

sculptural genius

I know every mom thinks their kid is a prodigy in some area, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Everyone needs a fan, right? ... , "don't you want to go outside and play?" "No, I'm finishing this sculpture," he says. Okay... Yesterday he had me image-searching pictures of fish skeletons, shark skeletons, t-rex skeletons, bat [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 06:08:09
Blog: Ganap!...

how a high school dropout became an art forger with mom and dad’s help

From the National Post: Shaun Greenhalgh, an Englishman whose furtive career has been unfolding in courtrooms, ... a 20-inch-high Egyptian sculpture, which his great-grandfather had purchased in 1892 from the contents ... to make the sculpture. Experts pronounced it authentic and Bolton Council paid £439,767 to buy [more...]

Date: 2008-01-30 12:55:06
Blog: !marty finestone’s act...

K’nex Strandbeest Walker

A motor-powered Strandbeest made from Knex! Even if you hate K'nex, you can build one too, as the basic structures are shown. A Strandbeest, which means "beach walker," is a type of kinetic sculpture made by Theo Jansen. These sculptures are able to walk with only wind power. After design... By: faust [more...]

Date: 2007-12-29 11:01:50
Blog: Daily DIY Network - Sc...

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