Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor

Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor December 31, 2007 by rocketfuel First time I learn about this guy was through a magazine called Art Forum ... Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures ... , Mueck’s one of the leading contemporary artists of today.For more info check out Paintalicious [more...]

Date: 2007-12-31 22:43:41
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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...

Ron Mueck, Super Realistic Sculptor

Ron Mueck Big Man The picture above was fascinating to me because “Big Man” was on the cover of Discovery magazine probably around a year or so ... at it. To suddenly find out it was a sculpture by Ron Mueck was sort of amazing. Ron does both huge scale ... : Ron Mueck Baby While other bits of work are much smaller… but still just as frigging [more...]

Date: 2007-12-31 22:59:56
Blog: The "Break it Down" Blo...

Barbaro: Immortalized

Barbaro fans rejoice! The champion racehorse is being immortalized just as he deserves with a statue to be unveiled in New York City’s Central Park ... , it is that horses deserve our compassion first."Coming from the same sculptor who did the Britney Spears birth and Paris Hilton autopsy pieces, this one is almost too mild. Perhaps a Dr. Kevorkian scul [more...]

Date: 2008-01-25 06:35:10
Blog: Lion in Oil...

Moore Art To Star at Sotheby

The Guardian reports that the predicted star of Sotheby's evening sale of famous Impressionist and modern art next week will be sculptor Henry ... as much as £100 million change hands. Other well-known works by artists including Picasso, Renoir ... will perform well because of a steep rise of interest in sculpture. 'Interest used to be mainly [more...]

Date: 2008-01-30 06:09:16
Blog: World Art News at Irish...

Trollers with Strollers

Weekend Plans Two jokers named Riegel and Blatt put together this music video/tutorial conglom explaining how to cruise the scene and "meet people". ... of a kinetic sculptor who creates exquisitely engineered wind-powered "animals" that roam beaches. Dutch artist Theo Jansen demonstrates his amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures, built from plastic [more...]

Date: 2008-01-08 21:47:39
Blog: Vin Weasel glob...

2 faces done

2 faces done I've got the next 2 faces finished and ready for their bodies to be sculpted ... that are on the list will be my last ones to get a portrait sculpture. They are extremely difficult. I will still take ... the same thing. Which that could be one reason it is rare to find a portrait sculptor! I have enjoyed [more...]

Date: 2008-02-19 07:35:36
Blog: ooak baby sculptures by...

Rodin Exhibit

Howard Community College is currently the home of “Rodin: In His Own Words Selections from the Iris and B ... on Auguste Rodin: “At the height of his career he was regarded as the greatest sculptor since ... from nineteenth-century academic conventions. Rodin’s artistic mission was to communicate the vitality [more...]

Date: 2008-02-13 07:48:14
Blog: daylight.moonlight.mid...

‘Weighty with profound realities’ by Bindu Shajan Perappadan

Rate this: Source: The Hindu Sculptor Neeraj Gupta’s works are on display at India Habitat Centre Woodwork: ... sculptures in stone and wood are truly a visual delight. Very rarely does one encounter genuine, fresh ... with profound realities,” says art critic Keshav Malik about Neeraj’s work. “Some of the artist’s sculptures [more...]

Date: 2008-02-06 03:42:45
Blog: Indian Art News...

Ron Mueck

An Australian hyperrealist sculptor from Great Britain. A model maker, puppeteer, and photo-realistic props and animatronics maker ... , and you'll be hooked and left speechless! This guy is AMAZING. Mueck's work consists of fiberglass people or body part sculptures made from silica recreated in extraordinary detail. Check [more...]

Date: 2008-01-07 09:07:38
Blog: MECCA ST....

Matisse, back to back.

Today, I saw an exhibition of the works of Henri Matisse as a sculptor at the Baltimore Museum of Art ... scene; it was almost as if each sculpture had been actually converted into a painting (or viceversa ... of the artist was, together with the influence of Rodin and Cezanne, the take home messages that I got [more...]

Date: 2008-02-04 03:29:53
Blog: Busy living...

Modern Masters

Tonight I had my first look at the Monet to Dali exhibit at the Frist Center. Wow! ... is composed of a half dozen vivid pastels. Each of the figures wears Renoir's trademark soft, rosy ... in the exhibit devoted to the sculpture of Rodin. Twentieth century sculptor Brancusi said, "In the nineteenth [more...]

Date: 2008-02-23 08:06:40
Blog: Anam Cara...

A Kiss Is Still A Kiss?

A kiss is that ubiquitous, universal, magical connection of physical (and emotional) closeness ... what first comes to mind is the late French sculptor, Auguste Rodin’s, “The Kiss.” The back story, according to Wikipedia, is that this sculpture originally had a different title “Francesca da Rimini,” [more...]

Date: 2008-02-16 16:01:23
Blog: Islandlass’s Weblog...

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...

Sculpture NOW 2008 DC opening reception for this key Washington Sculptors Group show is on Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:00pm to 8:30 pm and the awards presentation by David Furchgott, President of International Arts & Artists, is to take place at 7:15pm... where did you ask? Washington Square, located at 1050 Connecticut [more...]

Date: 2008-02-13 01:58:26
Blog: Daily Campello Art News...

Events - Pumpkin Sculpting Workshop

Sunday, October 28, 2 - 4PM Bring a pumpkin and your own carving tools to the Umlauf and Professor Pumpkin (aka Austin sculptor Marla Ripperda) ... will NOT be provided. We look forward to seeing you at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum! Happy Halloween! Umlauf Gardens, 605 Robert E. Lee Road Austin, Texas 78704, 512 445 5582 [more...]

Date: 2007-09-30 23:57:10
Blog: StyleShaker | Shop. Wea...

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...

Hideous Barbaro Statue To Grace NYC

012508barbaroslaw.jpg Hey, remember the attention whore controversial artist who did the Britney Spears giving birth sculptor as a "monument to pro-life"? Yeah, well, Daniel Edwards is back with a new sculpture called The Barbaro ... Press reports the sculpture doesn't have the support of Barbaro's owner Gretchen Jackson [more...]

Date: 2008-01-25 17:38:44
Blog: Philadelphia Will Do...

Statue stand off An exasperated Ray Price said he couldn't win in the row over funding of a statue in his honour ... . Noted sculptor Alan Somerville estimated a two-metre bronze statue would cost about $100,000 ... be clear: I never asked for a statue. The fans approached the Parramatta Stadium Trust. "I've [more...]

Date: 2008-02-20 10:27:26
Blog: Parramatta Eels in 2008...

The art of assemblage

This interesting post got me motivated about a subject that is linked to my project. The post is about recycled sculpture by British-born sculptor Tony Cragg. Made from materials ... of parts and pieces". The exhibition showed work done by major European artists like Picasso and Braque [more...]

Date: 2008-01-30 12:19:51
Blog: a personal online sketc...

wharton esherick house and studio

From Wikipedia: Wharton Esherick (1887-1970) was a sculptor who worked primarily in wood. He reveled in applying the principles of sculpture to common utilitarian objects. Consequently he is best known for his sculptural furniture and furnishings. Esherick was recognized in his lifetime [more...]

Date: 2008-01-02 19:32:54
Blog: materialicious...

PlantTherapy: Europe's Modern Botanical Sculptors

Jacques Castagne's work, combining fountain grass, gloriosa lilies, sweet peas, allium, switchgrass, and coral bead plants Garden Design Magazine's latest issue, which is not on their website yet, features a handful of Europe's top cutting-edge floral sculpture artists. It is a teaser, giving [more...]

Date: 2008-01-26 16:00:09
Blog: Apartment Therapy...

Transformation of Beacon Waterfront Underway

Transformation of Beacon Waterfront Underway Earlier this winter, ... and encouraging “smart growth” near city and town centers as a key part of our campaign to "save the land ... , a dramatic riverside art installation by sculptor George Trakas. Details of the park improvement [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 19:24:35
Blog: Scenic Hudson | Your Va...

local hero~Sandy MacLeod

a couple of years ago i was just learning about sculptor mark disuvero .. ... a pee any time, but isn't the sculpture great? so you're walking around this park and there is a part where you can go down some stairs towards the south portland bridge and wind around back [more...]

Date: 2008-02-20 21:55:11
Blog: jen of the north...

Spotlight Review..and a contest! EROS ISLAND

See below for a contest to win EROS ISLAND! EROS ISLAND - Lucinda Betts, Dawn Thompson, Devyn Quinn Kensington Aphrodisia (Trade Paperback) ... When Danicia Ryan, a talented sculptor, completes her latest piece, a statue of the Greek god Herakles [more...]

Date: 2008-02-26 05:13:43
Blog: Romance Reviews Today B...

This just in.

Oakland’s Mercury 20 has begun posting rather intensive interviews with their artists, by intensive I mean meandering ... to weekend watercolor ideas. First interview up is with East Bay sculptor David Seiler, whose work [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 22:18:44
Blog: paintings + drawings...

Sealed with a (Marmite) Kiss

... to recreate Rodin’s celebrated sculpture, ‘The Kiss’, in Marmite. The work was ‘unveiled’ in London’ [more...]

Date: 2008-02-15 13:33:56
Blog: The Folly Fancier...

EXHIBITION: Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures

This exhibition offers viewers the rare opportunity to see 73 sculptures posthumously cast in bronze from original composite and wax models created by French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas. [more...]

Date: 2008-02-25 13:00:47
Blog: American Artist...

Hyper-Realist Sculptures

clipped by: Q-tipsclipper's remarks: The Artwork of Hyper-Realist Sculptor Ron Mueck Clip Source: www.man-sport-shoes.comTags: art, ron mueck, wow [more...]

Date: 2007-12-18 19:31:33
Blog: Original Signal - Trans...

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