Category: sculptures

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Tomás Barceló Castelá

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Tomás Barceló Castelá is a French-Spanish sculptor whose unique work combines a classical style with 19th-century industrial steampunk-style elements to produce unique pieces.Based out of Cala Millor, Mallorca, Castelá casts steampunk-style figures that resemble ancient art while evoking otherworldly relics of an alternate reality.Using a combination of materials like resin, acrylics, and metallic paint, his sculptures are a combination of the future and the past, each one a unique and different character. Castelá strives to endow each piece with its own identity, while imagining them as fleshed-out characters starring in their own stories.  Looking quite fantastical and yet calling upon the classical tradition of sculpture of the ancient world,  his work has found a place in the modern world.“I believe that sculpture is the art of presence,” Castelá shares.“Sculpture shares space and time with the viewer, and that is what makes it so powerful. That’s why I don’t try so much to tell stories as I try to create powerful presences, each in its own way.”

More of  Tomás Barceló Castelá‘s wonderfully unique work can be found at https://tomasbarcelo.artstation.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/tomasbarcelocastela/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Constantin Brâncuși

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Constantin Brâncuși (1876 – 1957) was a Romanian-French sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France.Considered a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is  one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century,  often called the patriarch of modern sculpture.Born in a family of poor peasants, Brâncuși showed early talent for carving objects out of wood. Brancusi was trained as a sculptor in Romania before moving to Paris in 1904. There he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and exhibited at the Salon d’Automne.

Brâncuși quickly became accepted as a member of the Paris avant-garde, as his sculptures departed from the 19th century Western trend toward naturalism and eroticism, and were based instead on non-Western and so-called ‘primitive’ sculpture.His sculptures were of two distinct types: elegant, abstract marble or bronze forms, such as the ‘bird’ sculptures based on a Romanian legend, and rougher carvings made of wood, like his series of ‘endless columns’.Brâncuși was also known for paying special attention to the bases on which his sculptures were displayed, believing that the pedestal was part of the sculpture itself. The artist aimed to depict in his sculpture “not the outer form but the idea, the essence of things”.

Though his art is regarded as abstract by many, he insisted that it was representational and disclosed a fundamental, often concealed, reality.

 

More of Constantin Brâncuși’s marvelous sculptures can be found at https://www.theartstory.org/artist/brancusi-constantin/ and https://www.wikiart.org/en/constantin-brancusi.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Debra Bernier

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Debra Bernier is an extraordinary artist from Victoria, Canada.She uses natural materials, mostly driftwood, shells, and clay, to create amazing sculptures.These intricate pieces represent the spirits of nature as human fusing together with the natural material.“When I work with driftwood, I never start with a blank canvas,” the artist explains.“Each piece of driftwood is already a sculpture, created by the caresses of the waves and wind.Bernier’s talent lies in using the natural curves and depths of her driftwood to connect with that which most sacred in the world – children, animals, nature.  “The wood tells a story and I try to think of its journey as I hold it in my hand.“I extend or shorten the curves and contours that already exist into familiar shapes of animals or peoples’ faces.”More of Debra Bernier‘s amazing sculptures can be found at https://www.etsy.com/market/debra_bernier and https://www.instagram.com/shapingspirit/.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Tony Cragg

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Tony Cragg is a British sculptor best known for his sculptures which use diverse materials ranging from found objects to the more traditional bronze, wood, and glass.Cragg was born in Liverpool and spent two years working as a lab technician before attending the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London.Cragg incorporated materials such as pieces of plastic, detritus from construction sites, and household wares into his sculptures, creating flat mosaics and three-dimensional works with serrated and stacked elements.In the early 1980s Cragg gradually moved away from installation art and began to examine more closely the individual objects used as parts of his larger constellations.This was the beginning of his engagement and experimentation with the properties and possibilities of a wide range of more permanent materials in the form of wood, plaster, stone, fiberglass, Kevlar, stainless steel, cast iron and bronze.Craggs’ sculptures embody a frozen moment of movement, resulting in swirling abstractions.His work investigates the possibilities of manipulating every day, familiar containers and the ways in which they can morph into and around one another in space.

More of Tony Cragg‘s wonderful sculptures can be found at https://www.galerieklueser.com/en/artists/tony-cragg/ and http://www.artnet.com/artists/tony-cragg/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Kip Omolade

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Kip Omolade is celebrated for his brightly colored oil paintings of humanoid faces that explore themes such as immortality, social performance, and the human psyche.Born in Harlem, New York, Omolade began his art career as a graffiti artist while interning at Marvel Comics and The Center for African Art.

He continued his studies at The Art Students League of New York and earned a BFA at the School of Visual Arts.The paintings in his different series examine contemporary beauty standards and the notion that people present a masked version of themselves to the world.

The artist’s process involves creating a mold and cast of a model’s face, and producing a resin version of the cast, to which a layer of chrome is then added.The final sculpture, which is adorned with false eyelashes, is then used as the model for Omolade’s dazzling paintings.

Omolade explains the work by saying, “(For instance) My Diovadiova Chrome portraits historically connect to ancient, realistic African sculptures such as Benin ivory masks and Ife bronze heads.“The oil paintings are psychological studies that investigate immortality, the universal masks we all wear and contemporary notions of beauty and luxury.”More of Kip Omolade’s remarkable art can be found at https://www.kipomolade.com/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Doug Adams

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Award winning recycled Sculptured Bell artist Doug Adams grew up in Fielding, Utah on a small Appaloosa horse ranch & farm.

After graduating from high school, Doug served his country in the military’s branch of Utah National Guard for five years.

 

Upon his return from basic training & advanced training as a tank mechanic, he found employment constructing a large steel mill located nearby & a year later he began his 30 year career in the steel industry.

Doug created his first bell using a recycled cylinder in the early 80’s but it wasn’t until he met his wife Dianne that they started creating one of a kind sculptured bells using many of the same techniques Doug became so familiar with in the steel industry.

Old tools, well worn machinery, old car parts are all sculptures in the making for Doug’s artistic endeavors.

His wife Dianne creates one of a kind glass in her art studio for each sculpture that’s created.

Each unique bell stand is designed for its respective bell and given Doug’s trademark distressed patina.

Each piece is carefully made to stand the test of time to be enjoyed by generations to come, both for indoor and outdoor settings.

More of Doug Adams  amazing bells can be found at http://www.dougadamsbells.com/.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Saint Valentine’s Day

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.

—William Shakespeare

 

Love, Robert Indiana

 

 

Cupid, Michelangelo

 

 

Dragons in Love, Darin Lazarov

 

 

El Beso, Victor Delfín

 

 

Eros, Alfred Gilbert

 

 

First Love, Irakli Tsuladze

 

 

The Kiss, Rodin

 

 

Romeo and Juliet, Milton Hebald

 

 

A Heart Shared by Two, Made Wirata

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Lorenzo Quinn

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Contemporary Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn is a leading figurative sculptor whose work is inspired by such masters as Michelangelo and Rodin.

His monumental public art and smaller, more intimate pieces transmit his passion for eternal values and authentic emotions.

Quinn is best known for expressive recreations of human hands.“I wanted to sculpt what is considered the hardest and most technically challenging part of the human body’, he asserts. ‘The hand holds so much power – the power to love, to hate, to create, to destroy.” Quinn’s creative ideas spark quickly into life: ‘The inspiration comes within a millisecond’, he says, as he is driven to sculpt by observing life’s everyday energy.Yet a finished project takes months to realize, and it has to carry clear meaning. Quinn’s work appears in many private collections throughout the world and has been exhibited internationally during the past 20 years. 

More of Lorenzo Quinn’s sculptures can be found at https://www.lorenzoquinn.com/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery (flashback) — Big Heads

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MlmI’m certain we all know of people who have “big heads” — those who think they know more than they really do. But I had fun back in December 2014 sharing with you artists’ versions of the big head. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Giant Heads can be found in the Gallery at https://wp.me/p5LGaO-3E. 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery (flashback) — Louise Bourgeois

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Louise Bourgeois  has done a number of different art styles in her lifetime — her monumental abstract and often biomorphic works deal with the relationships of men and women.

My favorite works of hers will always be the giant spiders. They are truly Magnificent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Atmosphere, Art, and the Biltmore — Part 2

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Art

Who doesn’t enjoy looking at the world through others eyes?

Who doesn’t have a painting of flowers or a scenery print or a portrait hanging on their wall?

Who hasn’t collected a glass vase or pottery mug or bronze sun to hang on their porch?

Art is created in a broad stroke with largest paint brush imagineable. It’s the appreciation of another’s work enough to research it, talk about it, collect it, share it. It depends on one’s perspective of life. One sees a sea of flowers; another a gateway of pain. One sees squiggles; another, divinity.

It’s all relative — it’s all Art.

Don’t compare what you see in an artist’s dream with what others see. If you’d like, read the artist’s explanation, then feel it, interpret it as you will. As with many other virtues, Art is an ideal all men strive for but often misunderstand. It is an expression of you but a reflection of others.

Some incredible interpretations found on my journey through North Carolina:

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Next:  the Biltmore

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Ice Sculptures

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As winter settles in, we cannot help but think of snow and ice as a relentless adversary, reducing us to nothing but frozen icicles in an endless night.

But if we could get past the chill in our toes and red of our noses, look at what incredible sculptures it can bring…

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Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — James Doran-Webb

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Wild horses…couldn’t drag me away….

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The amazing power of life and freedom has been captured perfectly in sculptor James Doran-Webb’s breathtaking driftwood sculptures.

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The driftwood’s seemingly unique forms lend themselves perfectly to figures such as wolves and horses and dragons.

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Working together with a team of craftsmen, it can take 1,000 to 3,000 hours to make a life size sculpture, depending upon the complexities of the armature and anatomy.

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James started to design driftwood furniture in the early 2000’s and it was while playing with the various natural forms that he was drawn to experiment with his first driftwood animal sculpture.

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His large supply of wood has made it possible for him to find the pieces which most lend themselves to the natural form and shape needed to give his animals the movement and reality he strives to obtain in every piece he creates.

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James Doran-Webb believes that his art is meant to promote environmental consciousness.

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“If I could make one person a little more aware of nature and the impact of nature on their lives I would be happy. I am a firm believer in our need to practice sustainable living in order to give future generations a better chance of survival.”

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James Doran-Webb‘s fantastic driftwood sculptures can be found at his website, http://jamesdoranwebb.com; a great article also can be found at http://www.boredpanda.com/driftwood-dragon-sculptures-james-doran-webb/.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Nathalie Miesbach

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To my young friends out there:

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Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it.

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So, open your eyes to life:

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to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us

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as a precious gift to His children,

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to enjoy life to the fullest,

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and to make it count.

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Say yes to your life.

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Nathalie Miebach is an artist whose work focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations. Her woven sculptures interpret scientific data related to astronomy, ecology and meteorology in three-dimensional space.

You can find more of her intricate work at her website, http://nathaliemiebach.com.

Enjoy your wandering.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Dawn Whitehand

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Australian abstract artist Dawn Whitehand starts off her “about” page this way:

I am an Australian artist, making unique mixed media sculptures from clay, found objects and textured materials which are based on organic natural forms.

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I have always thought of myself as a traditionalist when it came to Art — Renoir, Rembrandt, Redlin — those people I can understand.

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I never really paid attention to Abstract Art until I wandered into Dawn’s world.

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Working from my studio on the outskirts of Ballarat at the base of a slumbering volcano, I am very aware of my environment, its constant changing, and its vulnerability. I am also very aware of the current global environmental crisis.

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Within this context my art practice attempts to address these issues by making sculptural artworks that attempt to remind, though subliminally, the viewer of their innate connection to the Earth, and our reliance upon it for survival.

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And I started to understand. A little. That all art doesn’t have to be literal. That trees don’t have to look like trees, and volcanoes didn’t have to look like volcanoes.

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That Art, like Emotions, like Life, is different for everyone. Some just choose to share their unique view through creative arts.

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The thrill of interpretation is the same thrill we take with each breath.  And that there’s always someone willing to share their breath — and view — with you.

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Dawn is a multi-talented spirit. She creates jewelry and pottery and custom-made art sculptures. You can find her art at https://dawnwhitehand.wordpress.com, and contemporary poems, art, and drawings at https://apoemandadrawingaday.wordpress.com/.

Stop by and learn a little bit of Abstract Art for yourself.