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Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts

Monday, March 01, 2010

Speaking of Sculpture...

Mask II                                                         wikipedia.org

         Boy                                    wikipedia.org


Ron Mueck sculpts gigantic, realistic human figures.  This style of art is called hyperrealism.  The figures look realistic from every angle, and have lots of detail.  Many of them are nudes (I warned you!), elderly people, and people with physical flaws like most people have.  Read more about him on Wikipedia here.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mini Art!!!

"Wizard of Oz" in the eye of a needle.

The British mini-sculptor Willard Wigan creates these incredible mini sculptures that have already the status of “the eighth wonder of the world”. The process of creating is very delicate and almost anything can affect his work. So, the artist “enters a meditative state in which his heartbeat is slowed, allowing him to reduce hand tremors and sculpt between pulse beats”. It’s just impressive what efforts artists should do in order to achieve the desired effect. See his gallery here.